Example sentences of "is [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In public the Bush administration is wholeheartedly on the side of the mujaheddin , as was President Reagan . |
| 2 | Dr de Klerk , who has acted as an adviser to the anti-apartheid Democratic Party , is known to be close to his brother , but politics is rarely on the agenda when they meet . |
| 3 | It is somewhere on the borders between social research and journalism . |
| 4 | The Caledonian Canal is right on the hotel 's doorstep and nearby Loch Eil and Loch Linnhe provide opportunities for boat trips . |
| 5 | Your uncle 's house is right on the edge of the moor . ’ |
| 6 | The house is right on the edge of the University campus , only about 5 minutes ' walk from where we teach . |
| 7 | The Antares is right on the beach |
| 8 | The Holiday Village is right on the beach , and next to the beach café ( free of music ) where you can have a delightful breakfast . |
| 9 | The Yenilmez Hotel is right on the beach in the middle of Yalikavak bay , about 15 minutes walk from the village . |
| 10 | The Friends of the Lake District feel that these developments are ‘ obstructive in the landscape ’ and have been incensed by the Marina which is right on the Bowness shore of Lake Windermere . |
| 11 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 12 | He is right on the line to Jesus . |
| 13 | Caroline 's first show is right on the button |
| 14 | She is not only involved in drug development but like any good entrepreneur is constantly on the look out for what is commercially exploitable . |
| 15 | Each participant is constantly on the lookout for small adjustments that will speed and smooth the evolution of the whole . |
| 16 | It 's vital that people have easy access to the headteacher and that the head is constantly on the move checking , listening , being interested and praising and rewarding . |
| 17 | As a ‘ grifter ’ preying on the gullible in bars and trains , Roy is constantly on the move — until the day a scam backfires . |
| 18 | ‘ The post-mortem report is in on the Needham business ! ’ |
| 19 | 1After the first few days , when I come into the room , Birdie is down on the floor of the cage , running back and forth , looking out over the barrier that holds in the gravel . |
| 20 | Some of it , notably the spa buildings and the generous park that goes with them , is down on the floor of the valley , the rest of it up on a terrace to the west , so that from the little square in the middle of the upper town you get quite large views of the mountains . |
| 21 | Last year 3,284 were killed or seriously injured , which is down on the figure of 4,302 in 1981 , but a long way from the Department of Transport 's aim of cutting it to below 3,000 . |
| 22 | The River Dee is below on the right , concealed by woodlands that once harboured a colony of red deer : access to it by cars is provided by a descending side road to a bridge near a chapel with a corrugated iron roof and a former sawmill in sylvan surroundings . |
| 23 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 24 | It is only on the basis of such a model that the government , which considers one of its basic functions to be the management of the economy , can predict what the effect will be of a change in one of its policies . |
| 25 | B : Well , the milkman has come It is only on the basis of assuming the relevance of B's response that we can understand it as providing a partial answer to A's question . |
| 26 | Despite the many points of contact between the study of film or media and the study of literature , despite the fact that there exist theorists such as Barthes who have made important contributions to the study of film and the study of literature , it is only on the communications courses that such theorists are studied . |
| 27 | This section on the family should be read in conjunction with chapter 6 , which is entirely on the family . |
| 28 | The concentration is less on the covering of a specific range of subject matter than on the acquisition of essential skills and increased insight into " modes of understanding " , of which History , Sociology , Biology and other subject fields are examples . |
| 29 | He thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows solution Univel is adopting for the Intel environment , which is apparently on the brink of shipping . |
| 30 | Univel Inc president Joel Applebaum last month said in an interview that the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface ‘ is not baked yet ’ : he thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows system that Univel Inc is adopting for the iAPX-86 environment which it is apparently on the brink of shipping ; meanwhile , Univel says it is selling into Europe , South America and the Middle East . |