Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.

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1 He had been in court before on charges of violence but never for anything like murder .
2 The view that women are on average better on language tasks and men on spatial tasks continues to receive serious attention .
3 It allows a program to check what records are at present physically on that track .
4 A program can check from this what records are at present logically on that track .
5 Finally , it is worth dwelling briefly on the role that users play in the innovation process , and on the factors which seem to be associated with successful innovation , since these are considerations which help to determine whether joint R&D activities need to be coupled with joint marketing to be successful .
6 It might be argued that it is. but it is worth dwelling briefly on the insights which structuralist Marxist accounts contain .
7 Marius Steen was in London certainly on the Saturday night , because he was at the Sex of One … party .
8 I was in Barwick again on Spring Bank Tuesday to see the maypole raised , but before that was the gala .
9 Biggins , who scored 22 goals last season and was on target again on Saturday , has been after a wage rise for some time and is currently on a weekly contract .
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