Example sentences of "be [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 2 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
| 3 | The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out . |
| 4 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 5 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 6 | These studies would seem to support the view of a society in which sexual norms are slowly on the change . |
| 7 | This Tony Bowran clearly has no intention of being , as he is well aware that art directors are constantly on the look out for new styles and new approaches to make their clients ' products visually jump off the page . |
| 8 | The Society 's own collection consists of approximately 100 pictures , but we are constantly on the look out for new ‘ treasures ’ . |
| 9 | Night Goblins cultivate many kinds of toxic fungi in their dark caves and they are constantly on the look-out for new and exotic varieties . |
| 10 | ‘ They are a relatively small branch with only six staff but Manager Tony Hoskins and his team are constantly on the lookout for potential Royline users , ’ said Anne . |
| 11 | People are suddenly on the move . |
| 12 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 13 | That is the training they do whilst they are basically on the job . |
| 14 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 15 | Well it 'll been in on the table . |
| 16 | As a businessman , it would be foolhardy of me to pour my own money nilly-willy into the club and so I am constantly on the look-out for companies willing to risk investing in a lowly but forward-looking team . |
| 17 | ‘ Most wedding rings are plain or , if engraved , are so on the inside . |
| 18 | An occupier , therefore , is not liable to his neighbour under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher for damage caused by ordinary trees which are self-sown because they are naturally on the land . |
| 19 | If this had been literally followed , St Bernard himself , as abbot of Clairvaux , would have been constantly on the move . |
| 20 | The changes have been entirely on the asset side of the balance sheet . |
| 21 | Even car towaways are in on the act . |
| 22 | The western American states are in on the act , too — Oregon , California and Alaska are growing at seven per cent — twice the rate of the remainder of the country . |
| 23 | We plod along for two or three decades with the occasional recording of individual sonatas and then along comes a centenary year and all and sundry are in on the act at the same time . |
| 24 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |
| 25 | Now the Chinese are in on the act : The Nanchang company are exporting their mopeds and motorbikes to Britain . |
| 26 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 27 | You are in on the ground floor of something very , very exciting ! ’ |
| 28 | A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt . |
| 29 | The details are outside on the duty rosta . |
| 30 | So , if groups of cells are removed from the early amphibian embryo , separated into individual cells , and then reaggregated , the cells mill about and sort themselves out so that , for example , cells that are normally on the outside of the embryo , such as the future skin cells , surround those that are normally on the inside , like future muscle cells . |