Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I am here on the orders of Sir John Cranston , coroner of the city . |
| 2 | I need to feel I 'm back on the rails . ’ |
| 3 | Slaven said after the game : ‘ I could not believe I was not on the substitutes ’ bench . ’ |
| 4 | I was still on the shores of the same great sea and yet had been transported into quite another world , a place on the edge of a China which seemed to have nothing in common with those islanders so forgotten and so far away . |
| 5 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 6 | In the first issue , which is currently on the streets and on sale in all good book shops , there is an article on The New Religion — the Church of the Jobs-to-Come , a look at the behaviour of a section of Derry City fans and an investigation into industry and a clean environment . |
| 7 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
| 8 | So far nearly 2,000 extra bed spaces have been provided , and the number of people who are out on the streets is substantially lower than 12 months ago . |
| 9 | You 're just on the approaches to Jerusalem , you 're just coming in to Jerusalem right ? |
| 10 | Well then you 're going across , you 're not staying st er you 're not on the pavers are you ? |
| 11 | If you 're out on the roads this weekend , there 's a chance you could see a squashed beetle . |
| 12 | Those Muslims who were out on the streets looked bad-tempered : they had not eaten or drunk since before dawn , and were in no mood for smiles or pleasantries . |
| 13 | ‘ You were only on the outskirts of it , ’ said Caspar . |
| 14 | She said , ‘ She 's out on the hills , or down in the fields . ’ |
| 15 | She is also on the books of Premier model agency , ‘ to get a little money til I find a proper job ’ . |
| 16 | Hywel , she is out on the hills alone … ’ |
| 17 | As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets . |
| 18 | She was seldom on the premises . |
| 19 | But we 're not on the flats in the daytime , |
| 20 | No , we 're not on the tea-bags this week , |
| 21 | We 'd lived there three years , decorated it and everything and then bang we 're out on the streets . |
| 22 | There again erm I think there 's still on the windows here , there 's still reference to one of the coal merchants I think is n't there ? |
| 23 | There are still visionaries in Africa , even on the grand scale , but they are increasingly on the sidelines of political life . |
| 24 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 25 | Directors are especially valued if they are also on the boards of other organisations , and these interlocks bridge the worlds of manufacturing , banking and investment institutions . |
| 26 | ( If they are not on the shelves , you can always request them on inter-library loan . ) |
| 27 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 28 | Su Ragazzi have lost only once this year — to Jets earlier this month — but showed they are back on the rails on Saturday by defeating Team Fife for the loss of only 13 points , 15-3 , 15-5 , 15-5 . |
| 29 | Undergraduate textbooks may be in the library index , but they are seldom on the shelves for borrowing . |
| 30 | But he wo n't come in Wrexham now they 're not on the wards much . |