Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 2 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 3 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 4 | Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France . |
| 5 | The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models . |
| 6 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |