Example sentences of "[be] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If you 're on the premises today , you 're coming , Security has its orders , on all the gates .
2 Remember the next time you 're on the fells it 's up to us — only we can prevent the hills from vanishing , so watch where you 're putting your feet .
3 But now we 're on the flats , no .
4 SUCH is the alarming speed with which pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream these days that one moment you can be an underground guitar hero from Seattle , next you 're on The Clothes Show .
5 Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen
6 Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen
7 Look , they 're on the horses now .
8 I see people being frightened just because they 're on the streets . ’
9 ‘ Which means , ’ Trish said patiently , ‘ that we 're on the books until the party ends .
10 But it 's not too bad if you 're on the trains or the buses , I 've no delays to report .
11 But it 's not a bad evening if you 're on the trains or the buses , I 've no trouble to tell you about at all .
12 They 're on the roadways
13 You 're on the divisors , strimmers and and we 're on cutting our lot
14 Are there any other suggestions for possible works while we 're on the arrangements and the programme ?
15 Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ?
16 I 'm on the earlies in the morning now .
17 If I 'm on the earlies , right ?
18 ‘ I would do a work-out on the pitch before the match but when the games starts I 'm on the sidelines , ’ he says .
19 Has to be on a runners on the side as well otherwise it would just fall down .
20 Within the Conservative party , aspiring candidates have to be on a candidates list maintained by the party 's national headquarters .
21 It can be on the plates in readiness , and then Jean and I will do the rest .
22 Those concerned about football hooliganism today idealize the stable post-war years when it was safe to be on the terraces and one could walk the streets at night .
23 ‘ They think he might be on the moors . ’
24 I think he was celebrating the coming of steam power , and showing the people of his time how much safer they were going to be on the seas , do n't you ? ’
25 The project looks at how risk and uncertainty are handled by the decision makers concerned and what the impact may be on the choices made .
26 will claim for it , and then , as under the old system that worked simply and cheaply , it will be on the records .
27 While it published scorching critiques of the diplomacy that had led Britain into war , MacDonald insisted that ‘ whatever our views may be on the origins of the war , we must go through with it . ’
28 However , despite the publicity given to the more extravagant claims about the impact of new technology on the level of unemployment , and the popular notion that the silicon chip is a job destroyer , a survey , published in 1979 , of some 400 documents on the effect of the new information technologies on employment showed ‘ how little foundation there is to existing studies , half of which are by pessimists ( often with a trade union background ) and the other half by optimists ( who tend to be on the employers ’ side ) ’ ( Institute for Research on Public Policy 1979 ) .
29 A main focus should be on the differences between written and spoken English .
30 But no one knows what the biological effects would be on the astronauts undertaking such a trip Christopher Joyce
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