Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 2 | Ginny bought some milk from Mr Ahmet 's Corner Emporium & Newsagent 's on the corner . |
| 3 | Marriage , or engagement is on the cards for next February . |
| 4 | It must have been a Saturday or else Lewis for some reason or other was on holiday from work . |
| 5 | I would be inclined to choose Abbado 's COE versions ( DG ) as the finest available recordings of the Fourth and Sixth Symphonies on modern instruments ( or Wand 's on RCA if you really must have full orchestral forces ) , and until now the Hanover Band under Roy Goodman ( Nimbus ) have had the field to themselves , ‘ authentically ’ speaking . |
| 6 | The contents of her handbag and briefcase were on the table beside him , the Pan Am ticket conspicuous . |
| 7 | His back and chest were on fire . |
| 8 | The president cares , and money is on the way . |
| 9 | The association 's concerns have been backed by the National Rivers Authority who said in a letter : ‘ The site and building is on the flood plane of the River Eden and the flooding of the area and the building can not be discounted . ’ |
| 10 | you go up along drive in and Newminster is on your left and Chantry is on your right , at , but I should imagine erm I should imagine that quite a lot of Chantry School children would be sent home because they 're for the children outside of Morpeth , you know they go there from |
| 11 | He notes that ‘ men are hardly to be brought to think that sweetness and whiteness are not really in manna ’ , but this does not lead him to question his declared view that sweetness and whiteness are on a par with the ‘ ideas of sickness and pain' , ideas which ‘ are not in the manna , but effects of its operations on us , and are nowhere when we feel them not ’ . |
| 12 | A wide variety of experience and direction is on offer . |
| 13 | It was a thought that made her breathing grow even shorter , and blackness was on her , and everything disappeared , to reappear a few moments later . |
| 14 | PETER HORBURY takes the telephone receiver and the operator tells him the police and ambulance are on their way . |
| 15 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 16 | Your personal astrological chart , from which Debbie works out your character , past and future are on software . |
| 17 | He declared that ‘ discipline , order , morality and civilisation are on a higher level out there than in China ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 18 | Nor will notions of contagion and susceptibility be on the agenda when we meet them . |
| 19 | Quite apart from these constraints there are more familiar problems associated with compound growth calculations : the weighting of capital and labour is on the crude basis of their respective shares in gross domestic income ; the technique of weighting from year to year is , as always , a compromise between different types of index ; compound rates of change are constant over a given period and , therefore , may not adequately reflect sharp movements within the period . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , lunch today is fish-cakes , and there 's sausages tomorrow , Cornish pasty Thursday and shepherd 's on Friday . |
| 21 | Politics and sport are on the menu . |
| 22 | Parent and child were on one side of a chasm called school , the teacher on the other . |
| 23 | ‘ Cook went to the shop with a sexual urge and rape was on his mind , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 24 | Crazy golf and tennis are on offer , as is bowling . |
| 25 | The police agreed that her disappearance was odd even suspicious but oddness and suspicion are on every breath a policeman takes — and meanwhile their offices are stacked with files of unquestionably real and still unsolved crimes . |
| 26 | Ten thousand people left the city last year and emigration is on the up . |
| 27 | ‘ The economic circumstances are right and recovery is on the way . |
| 28 | When one heard him giving vent to this view it was difficult to resist the conclusion that justice and truth were on his side . |
| 29 | The wind and rain were on his side , masking his movements . |
| 30 | Frankie and Chopper were on Freddie 's heels , but Billy had not been able to keep up with them . |