Example sentences of "[noun sg] be on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electric windows and mirrors , central locking , rear heating , rear wash/wipe and a tilt wheel are on all models , but today 's hard-pressed executive has to find another £701 for a sunroof and £1,092 for air conditioning . |
| 2 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 3 | I look like shit because my mind is on higher things , because I 'm so busy I do n't have time to wash my hair , because if you really love me you 'll love me like this as well . |
| 4 | They are under the impression that her mind is on higher things . |
| 5 | I am dying , she thought , as her forehead broke out into a fine sweat , I do not even have to think of it , my mind is on other things , but there is a disturbance , quite plainly to be felt , in the mechanism of my heart . |
| 6 | It all becomes a matter of working out how to get something done in the company , and this in itself is a matter of finding the right lever to pull , since all the concentration is on political in-fighting , and only the bare minimum on the actual achievement of a competitive advantage in the real world outside . |
| 7 | As the spring is on private land he had to obtain the permission of the owner , but this was readily given . |
| 8 | The department is on two sites : in central Edinburgh close to the Medical and Science Faculties ; and at the nearby Veterinary Field Station with access to a large animal hospital and large animal accommodation . |
| 9 | Funnily , funnily enough he , funnily enough his car 's on that picture |
| 10 | If all the weight is on one side and being lugged along , it will upset the natural poise and balance of the body . |
| 11 | The emphasis of the study is on professional chemists who are members of the Royal Society of Chemistry . |
| 12 | However , there is authority from cases decided before the 1977 Act that the approach to such clauses is first to construe the contract to define the parties ' obligations without reference to the disputed clause , and then take account of the clause in order to decide what its effect is on those obligations ( see Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 ) . |
| 13 | The light is on all night . |
| 14 | Perhaps the easiest way around this is to make a note of which side you started and only ever turn off the machine when the carriage is on that side . |
| 15 | WE can see from the definition of a tackle that : ‘ If the ball carrier is on one knee , or both knees , or is sitting on the ground or is on top of another player who is on the ground , the ball carrier is deemed to have been brought to ground ’ . |
| 16 | The natural place to mount a small drawing is on this centre . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a tight-knit community up here , ’ said Major Mike Marks , 69 , who as a young soldier was on anti-invasion duties . |
| 18 | But today Ellie 's mind was on other matters , such as what her brothers had meant by their accusation . |
| 19 | Steve would have been steering , but his mind was on other things . |
| 20 | His mind was on other things , and she suddenly found herself back again thinking of Alain Lemarchand and his expression when she had moved forward . |
| 21 | She must instinctively have replaced it while her mind was on other things . |
| 22 | ‘ I can not deny that I have had my troubles off the park , or that my mind was on other things for a while , but my head is down and I am concentrating on making a contribution to the team once again . |
| 23 | Beck sounded as if his mind was on other business . |
| 24 | Zoser served her politely but with an air of detachment , as if his mind was on higher things . |
| 25 | The next demonstration was on 3 July 1968 at the opening of a new carriageway of the Craigavon Bridge . |
| 26 | Then again , the pillbox was on private land so maybe that had n't been a problem . |
| 27 | The first diary entry was on 26th February 1804 when Green spent the evening with ‘ Mr.and Mrs. Wilcocks and Mr. Hardden , ’ ( his spelling of people 's names often varies ) . |
| 28 | His first action was on 22 December 1944 when he led a band of 34 against a French outpost ( one is reminded of Aung San and his Thirty Comrades ) . |
| 29 | All I 'm trying to do is to establish where your father 's Datsun was on that night , and then stop wasting your time . ’ |
| 30 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |