Example sentences of "on [indef pn] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As financial results improved and there was increasing reason to believe the slogan on everyone 's lips at the decade 's start , ‘ This is the age of the train' , morale deteriorated further . |
| 2 | Sir : As the Conservative Party gathers for its annual conference , it would be appropriate to ask the question which must be on everyone 's mind . |
| 3 | HAD Nigel Lawson toured the tea bars at the Blackpool Winter Gardens yesterday , he would have found one topic on everyone 's lips — increased interest rates . |
| 4 | Prickly members of the daisy and dandelion family are not high on everyone 's list of garden priorities but Berkheya macrocephala , that bold perennial from Natal in South Africa , is well worth considering if you have a sunny border in one of the warmer counties — especially in rich and well-drained soil . |
| 5 | Angela Brickell 's on everyone 's nerves . |
| 6 | I certainly had a good time and judging by the sweat on everyone 's brow as they worked to perfect their routines I think it was generally thought to be enjoyable and worthwhile . |
| 7 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 8 | If only the bar was n't brought down quite so hard on everyone 's head . |
| 9 | Stories of the great heroic kings like Arthur and Charlemagne were on everyone 's tongue . |
| 10 | Town is on everyone 's lips today , and for the proud position which it occupies in public esteem it has very largely Mr Chapman to thank . ’ |
| 11 | Stepfamilies call for additional sensitivity and unselfish caring on everyone 's part . |
| 12 | Nikolai Demidenko is certainly the name on everyone 's lips these days — his extensive marketing and publicity has paid dividends — so it is refreshing to see him tackling repertoire which deserves to be recorded properly . |
| 13 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 14 | When dining in the evening , avoid a single powerful light over the table which will throw an unnatural shadow on everyone 's face . |
| 15 | All of a sudden you 're on everyone 's brain . |
| 16 | Throughout the spring , talk of invasion was on everyone 's lips ; those who could help to fund the new military force did so , while others , providing they were householders or ‘ such other Persons as shall be recommended by two Householders ’ , were invited to enlist at the George Inn , ‘ … where such persons as are willing to join the Frome Selwood Volunteers , either cavalry or infantry , are requested to attend and sign their names ’ . |
| 17 | Rumour and speculation about the princes was on everyone 's tongue , it seemed , and in truth she knew not what to believe . |
| 18 | The libretto , by Gottlieb Stephanie , was on a Turkish subject , highly popular in Vienna at the time : the war with Turkey meant that ‘ Turkish ’ customs and themes were very much on everyone 's minds . |
| 19 | The tunes were on everyone 's lips : they were played , sung and whistled in the streets ; the whole city had gone ‘ Figaro-mad ’ . |
| 20 | Otherwise such times can be worked out in advance and become a first call on everyone 's schedule . |
| 21 | And the question on everyone 's lips was : Who DID write it . |
| 22 | THE oldest one in the book is waiting for a corner and treading on everyone 's toes on a freezing January day . |
| 23 | That was the question on everyone 's mind . |
| 24 | The constant bickering between Maura and his mother was beginning to get on everyone 's nerves . |
| 25 | One of the best-loved cheeses on everyone 's tables — for starters and salads , snacks and family favourite hot dishes — Dutch Edam is ready for anything |
| 26 | Increasingly , he envisaged a great war in the pacific and many others shared his expectations : the prophecy of Jayabhaya was again on everyone 's lips . |
| 27 | And now she could see the puzzlement on everyone 's face . |
| 28 | Bozburun , the beautiful , landlocked little harbour almost inaccessible except by sea , on everyone 's itinerary . |
| 29 | Even a disastrous outcome in the public sector can be financed by a fraction of a penny on everyone 's income tax , which does not have nearly such disastrous consequences . |
| 30 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |