Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company seems to be on to a winner — at least in theory . |
| 2 | MIX and Max with Mel and you could be on to a video winner as we give away more than £2,500worth of Gibson tapes . |
| 3 | But , he argued , the Bank would be on to a winner once it started collecting , and selling , 12 tonnes of paper per week . |
| 4 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 5 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 6 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 7 | I have access to a low-level formatting program , were the drive to be on of the MFM type , but the information on the outside of the casing does n't include the numbers of heads and cylinders . |
| 8 | Dave Sims opened Northampton up and prop Andy Deacon bulldozed through to score what could well turn out to be on of the most important tries of the season … |
| 9 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 10 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 11 | A complementary exhibition that will bring Cezanne and Pissarro together should be on at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris at the same time as the Rishel/Cachin retrospective . |
| 12 | So I hope hopefully this evening will be a very constructive meeting and we 'll certainly welcome your views about what you feel should be happening to the theatre or should be taken or should be taken place at the theatre , what should be on at the theatre , and er things that you feel that are n't happening at the moment . |
| 13 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 14 | As though to prepare us for that vision , Rubin Spangle has devised a show of early Flavin works from the Sixties which will be on until the end of the month . |
| 15 | Black jeans and white cords , we 'll see if you 're right , it 's gon na be on in a minute . |
| 16 | Gesner would be on in a few moments and then the thing would lift off . |
| 17 | It 'll be on in a bit , Col. |
| 18 | Oh it 'll be on in a minute Sue . |
| 19 | Now erm I think it is and he rang me up and asked me would the strike still be on in the middle of er February . |
| 20 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 21 | ‘ If any other part of the machine broke the farmer would be down at the dealer causing a song and dance . |
| 22 | IF THE truth be known , Ian Woosnam would probably just as soon be down at the Golden Lion in Oswestry tomorrow night , having a pint or two with the lads . |
| 23 | If I 'm not here , I 'll probably be down at the boatyard . |
| 24 | His inclination was to be down at the yard . |
| 25 | ‘ I shall want to be down at the track early tomorrow morning . |
| 26 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 27 | so I wonder if she 's going down the , well she might be down for the service now |
| 28 | Previously I 've written songs about all these other subjects which personally affect me , but now I 'm thirtysomething and it may be down to a need to find out about and rationalise my environment , but these songs about Wales seem to be appearing . ’ |
| 29 | Business come mid-afternoon will be down to a trickle as people head home to watch the F.A . |
| 30 | Most international staff in Sarajevo would be evacuated because the risks of staying on were too great , Mr Land said , adding : ‘ We 'll be down to a skeleton staff by the weekend . ’ |