Example sentences of "[is] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Santa Cruz says that run as-is on the Pentium , applications performance will be improved by up to 54% . |
| 2 | SCO says that run as-is on the Pentium , applications performance will be improved by up to 54% . |
| 3 | It is a contender : a colleague of Ackroyd 's on The Times announced that it was a ‘ sure contender ’ for the Booker Prize of 1987 ( which it did n't receive ) . |
| 4 | At 40 , he knows he 's on the road to fortune and admits to spending more time talking with journalists than working over hot ovens in the kitchen . |
| 5 | He 's on the funicular with us , in the next car with Miss Abernethie . ’ |
| 6 | Your room 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 7 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 8 | WHAT 'S ON THE MARKET ? |
| 9 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 10 | The first thing he did on arriving in Manchester at the weekend was pop over unannounced to Billy Boston 's pub in Wigan , where his likeness jostles for space with the owner 's on the tap room wall . |
| 11 | Replying to common criticism that Margaret Thatcher tended to be a one-woman band , Mr Baker said on BBC television 's On the Record : ‘ I think there will be a growing amount of Cabinet discussion . |
| 12 | But when the time comes to leave , she ca n't help going in a showbiz way , negotiating the steps of the Ritz in her towering leopard-skin stilettos like she 's on the set of a Busby Berkeley musical . |
| 13 | He has been idolised by fictional characters from Dean Moriarty in Kerouac 's On the Road to Barley in Le Carre 's The Russia House , and he is one of only two people looked up to by Miles Davis . |
| 14 | Lovat 's headquarters 's on the left |
| 15 | No wonder they reckon the beer 's on the turn in here . |
| 16 | My sleeping bag 's on the floor , and I shove it on the bed quick . |
| 17 | His cap 's on the floor in front of him and I think about picking it up for him , cos maybe if he 's blind he do n't know he 's dropped it . |
| 18 | Everyone 's on the ground floor in chalets – wooden chalets in fields of grass . |
| 19 | It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility . |
| 20 | What 're you doing mooching about out there when the dinner 's on the table ? ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps it 's on the house . ’ |
| 22 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 23 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
| 24 | As a result of a leading loose horse running across the fence after Becher 's on the second circuit ( the 23rd ) , there was a pile-up and Foinavon was the only horse to jump the fence first time . |
| 25 | I know that if you 're not satisfied with yourself , it 's not generally because of what 's on the outside , it 's really because of what 's on the inside . |
| 26 | I know that if you 're not satisfied with yourself , it 's not generally because of what 's on the outside , it 's really because of what 's on the inside . |
| 27 | Try as we might to tell ourselves that it 's ‘ what 's on the inside that counts ’ , we have very little evidence to show that it 's true , and inside and outside can become confused , so that we feel bad on the inside but believe that if we altered what 's on the outside ( our bodies ) we could change how we feel . |
| 28 | Try as we might to tell ourselves that it 's ‘ what 's on the inside that counts ’ , we have very little evidence to show that it 's true , and inside and outside can become confused , so that we feel bad on the inside but believe that if we altered what 's on the outside ( our bodies ) we could change how we feel . |
| 29 | Now what 's on the problem page ? |
| 30 | ‘ Herr Professor Eberhardt 's on the telephone ! |