Example sentences of "be on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus between 1965 and 1971 there were 56 records from the coast of birds presumed to be on passage , between 9 August and 17 December , and 32 similar spring records between 23 February and 30 April . |
| 2 | Most of the coverage will be on BBC 2 , with sessions in the morning , the afternoon , the early evening and late night . |
| 3 | And the onus will be on employers to ensure their offices comply with the Display Screen Regulations . |
| 4 | Most interest will be on Kawasaki 's new 900 , its challenger to Honda 's all conquering FireBlade . |
| 5 | ‘ The emphasis in working-class families will be on sons and daughters getting a career , ’ added Paul Davies , ‘ and that means courses like English will be left to students from middle-class families . ’ |
| 6 | The emphasis will be on presentation skills as well as substantive content . |
| 7 | It must be on back . |
| 8 | The biggest threat will be on October 22 when the Queen visits Dresden , a hotbed of neo-Nazism . |
| 9 | The date for the reopening of the Public Enquiry into the future of the Swanage Railway has been declared and will be on October 12 in Swanage Town Hall . |
| 10 | Half of those would be on leave for a quickly arranged replay and I estimate the cost would be in the region of £30,000 . ’ |
| 11 | Jean-Paul at first resisted ; eventually , when Edouard pressed him , and after changing their proposed schedule three times , he agreed to a week in the autumn of 1950 , when he would be on leave . |
| 12 | Both the court and the father 's solicitors were aware that the principal social worker involved on behalf of the local authority would be on leave and unable to play any significant part in the preparation of the hearing before 20 January 1992 . |
| 13 | I shall be on leave in the week before Easter , but if you have any queries about this request Barbara Hegarty will do her best to help . |
| 14 | I shall be on leave week beginning 13 September for one week . |
| 15 | Unfortunately he will be on leave at that time but will be represented by Mr P S Young his Senior Deputy Director who will be delighted to attend the presentation and the lunch which follows . |
| 16 | Please note that the Office will be closed from the 29th July until 9th August when Hilda will be on leave . |
| 17 | ‘ She could be on leave , ’ he suggested evasively . |
| 18 | Turning 30 , 40 or 50 can be the start of something great Sex with a younger man — it ought to be on prescription ! |
| 19 | A similar argument can be applied to urine production except that the emphasis , would be on fluid intake . |
| 20 | Mr Lenarduzzi endorses her view : ‘ If our concentration is going to be on testing , then that would not be welcome . |
| 21 | You do not need to be on income support to get a crisis loan but you must be able to show that it is the only means of preventing serious risk to you or your partner 's health and safety . |
| 22 | You must be on income support or be expected to get income support when you move into the community . |
| 23 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 24 | I said well it 's funny how a friend of mine gets it , she says well she must be on Income Support with an underlying something like an , a different pension on top of her Income Support , which she is is n't she ? |
| 25 | So it hardly matters that Connery lives mostly in Marbella , that his residence for tax purposes , used to be on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and is now an apartment in Monte Carlo , although he still has the place in the Bahamas . |
| 26 | News of the royal visit , which will be on election day , April 9 , marks the end of 18 months of hoping by the charity , which caters for the mentally ill . |
| 27 | THOUSANDS of miners will be on strike today as part of their continuing campaign against pit closures . |
| 28 | Had had to come out on strike , then er all the workers be on strike fund , er did you and your father receive strike money ? |
| 29 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 30 | Prison officers will be on strike across Scotland for the first time in their history . |