Example sentences of "[verb] to be on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
| 2 | The phrase conveys a sense of the desired relationship between elderly people and their relatives , especially their children : they want to be on good terms with them , and to have regular contact with them , but they do not want to rely on them too directly . |
| 3 | Agricultural trade unions have described the system as ‘ feudal ’ and ‘ legalized serfdom ’ , while farmers have defended tied housing as being essential to farming ( especially livestock farming ) where labour needs to be on immediate call , an aid to labour mobility within the industry and a considerable tax-free perquisite . |
| 4 | But with Virgin , he complained , the laid-back Sixties seediness and everybody wanting to be on first-name terms , all seemed like a ploy to lull an honest Situationist into a false sense of security . |
| 5 | He quickly came to be on close terms both with Edward himself , in whose Scottish wars he regularly served , and with his heir . |
| 6 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 7 | The accusation of soliciting was avoided , but she did appear to be on friendly terms with rather too many American and Canadian soldiers . |
| 8 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 9 | He seemed to be on good terms with the people behind the bar . |
| 10 | She was still taking medication after her breast cancer operation but she seemed to be on top form and very bubbly and full of plans for the future . |
| 11 | Perhaps that was why every cell of her normally controlled body seemed to be on red alert in Rune Christensen 's presence . |
| 12 | In one matter only had she determined to have her own way : she was going to be on good terms with the neighbours for the sake of her sanity . |
| 13 | The schools market is an area where booksellers and publishers increasingly seem to be on opposing teams , playing on that all too familiar unlevel playing field . |
| 14 | they 've got to be on separate days |
| 15 | Ulf , the bishop whose capabilities had so little impressed Bishop Ealdred , had disappeared from view and been replaced at Dorchester by a Saxon , Wulfwig , who was known to be on good terms with Leofric of Mercia . |
| 16 | Between 10 and 7 BC , however , Quirinius was known to be on military service in the Syrian area , and so there is the possibility of him being involved in a previous census even though he was not the Governor at the time . |
| 17 | He says the project appears to be on indefinite hold . |
| 18 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 19 | The 23-year-old Nortumbrian went off hard with South Shields Harrier Dave Beris and looked to be on record-breaking pace . |
| 20 | The second bid issue is the careers service branch development fund which is the one that 's available every year , but we originally had Jane 's project , the F E project and so , erm now this year the bids have been asked to be on certain subject areas . |
| 21 | In due course , these new laws were applied against the protesters who appeared to be on strong ground when challenging their convictions , since , in their haste to bring these laws into operation , the drafters had apparently acted ultra vires . |
| 22 | A high proportion were repeat visitors who appeared to be on good terms with the reception and service staff . |
| 23 | erm There 's always an ambivalence in the relationship between governors and schools in that , in order to have a good relationship with a head , you need to be on friendly terms with him so that the head , or her , so that the head will communicate with the governors . |
| 24 | In addition an on-site back-up pumping arrangement with a similar throughput was required to be on permanent standby in order that continuity of water level was maintained on either side of the diversion . |