Example sentences of "be on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 2 | This could be on a regular basis , for example once a week , or could be available in an emergency . |
| 3 | The new contracts may improve accounting procedures , but do not appear to offer more choice to either doctors or consumers , who will be bound by contractual arrangements , which the government recommends should be on a three-year rolling basis . |
| 4 | The country seemed to be on a knife-edge , with a minority government , the economy poised on the edge of collapse , and potential disorder in industrial relations , racial matters , and the affairs of the Celtic fringe . |
| 5 | Rather , ‘ the censure of this essay must be on a somewhat different ground — that of my wishing to have all at once what can only be had in succession in an historical process , a co-existence of the primitive and the most highly sophisticated ’ . |
| 6 | The lesson Haslam learned from his ICI experience was that wherever possible redundancy should be on a voluntary basis if the trauma were to be kept to a minimum . |
| 7 | But we employ thirty thousand people and therefore one has to look after the majority , however hard it may be on a relatively few — one thousand people in that particular case . |
| 8 | A few men will not get the message during the flight , and will land believing themselves to be on a different drop zone . |
| 9 | In the case of the postal orderly , his sixty situps must be on a cumulative basis . |
| 10 | demanding to know the date of the party — which was unanswerable , since no one knew when Karl would be back from Dresden — and either confirming that , anyway , if it was to be on a week-end they would be resent — or not Frau Nordern was annoyed b the refusals but Herr Nordern had a drier view ‘ Most of them have hardly heard of Karl , ’ he said ‘ and anyway it is n't everyone who wants to be seen meeting … . |
| 11 | Entries can be on a postcard laid out in the manner of the entry coupon . |
| 12 | Entries can be on a postcard laid out in the manner of the coupon . |
| 13 | Management in the West tends to be on a collective basis ; in the East by individuals appointed by the party or the central government . |
| 14 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 15 | It 's still not uncommon to meet people who declare that if one were seated in a Parisian cafe , rather than a British pub , then the conversation would be on a different level . |
| 16 | But the assumption was always that his first attempt at direction should be on a modest scale . |
| 17 | Timisoara and Arad were reported to be on a general strike . |
| 18 | Oh , to be quiet ; oh , to be on a desert island with no one to talk to ! |
| 19 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 20 | In Scotland , by contrast , one felt oneself to be on a periphery and , in some way , helpless . |
| 21 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the reasons we want to become a university is to be on a level playing field in terms of recruiting students . |
| 23 | She 'll be on a bed somewhere , out of her skull . ’ |
| 24 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 25 | Her fiancé seemed to be on a Cook 's tour of the Middle East , and she had a touching faith in my opinion as to his current safety . |
| 26 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 27 | In most cases your holiday flight is planned to be on a Boeing 737 or 767 jet aircraft operated by our sister company , Britannia Airways . |
| 28 | This attitude had provoked two serious crises in the 1840s , in both of which France was virtually humiliated , and while Napoleon III was resolved on bringing about an understanding , he was equally resolved that it should be on a basis of equality . |
| 29 | It would seem to be on a par with the famous ‘ Let them eat cake ’ attributed to Marie Antoinette . |
| 30 | This communal support for older people in early modern England could be on a remarkably generous scale . |