Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another march is being held in Bonn next Monday , three days before the summit , when 50,000 Germans are expected to be on the streets . |
| 2 | Has to be on a runners on the side as well otherwise it would just fall down . |
| 3 | When going into a supermarket to buy cabbages , onions , carrots or eggs , just give a little thought as to how these came to be on the shelves — the early planting and worrying about frosts , packing and carting to the shops . |
| 4 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
| 5 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 6 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 7 | I think he was celebrating the coming of steam power , and showing the people of his time how much safer they were going to be on the seas , do n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | Mravinsky 's attitude to dynamics seems to be on the lines of ‘ no gradual inflexion unless explicit instructions are given to the contrary ’ . |
| 9 | Nothing short of the resurrection of Renaissance man seems to be on the cards , in command of all knowledge . |
| 10 | However , despite the publicity given to the more extravagant claims about the impact of new technology on the level of unemployment , and the popular notion that the silicon chip is a job destroyer , a survey , published in 1979 , of some 400 documents on the effect of the new information technologies on employment showed ‘ how little foundation there is to existing studies , half of which are by pessimists ( often with a trade union background ) and the other half by optimists ( who tend to be on the employers ’ side ) ’ ( Institute for Research on Public Policy 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough midfield player Andy Peake has been recalled to today 's team with Mark Proctor expected to be on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 12 | One is believed to be on the outskirts of Middlesbrough , near The Post House Hotel . |
| 13 | How could one bear to be on the sidelines ? |
| 14 | Within the Conservative party , aspiring candidates have to be on a candidates list maintained by the party 's national headquarters . |