Example sentences of "[be] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr ‘ Patterson ’ … patients here are very much consultant oriented , and no matter how much you may feel you 're on the right lines for treatment , they do expect to go along and see a consultant . |
| 2 | Once you have left drama school your attention will be on the immediate problems of survival and making progress with your work . |
| 3 | The programme for the reunion will be on the usual lines including a display . |
| 4 | BRITISH RAIL believes it could be on the right lines for attracting more passengers in Cleveland . |
| 5 | This is because in the purchase conditions there will be a provision stating that any contract entered into pursuant to the purchase order will be on the standard conditions of purchase on the back of the order ( see the preliminary statement and cl 1.1 of Precedent 2 ) . |
| 6 | Finally , wherever health-care reform may be on the stormy seas of the Clinton presidency , the public wants health-care reform . |
| 7 | The focus will be on the early stages of the police investigation of offences , and is likely to include the exercise of powers to stop and search suspected persons , the search of premises and seizure of property , and the detention of suspects in police custody . |
| 8 | Therefore , in the following discussion , the emphasis will be on the political practices of the transnational capitalist class ( TCC ) and the groups or classes with which it has its most significant contacts . |
| 9 | A key feature of the proposals in the consultation document is , once again , that the main focus of policy would be on the economic effects of market structure and conduct , and not on general public interest considerations . |
| 10 | An important focus of reports of sexual assaults and sex murders tends to be on the sexual attacks upon children . |
| 11 | It may set out the general terms on which the firm will be prepared to deal , its right to refuse to deal and the fact that any deals that it undertakes will be on the customary terms of the market concerned . |
| 12 | He made her angry , but subconsciously she would have liked his approval , would have liked to be on the same terms with him as Joanna was with Ian . |
| 13 | Hans reckons I 'll be on the big slopes by Thursday ’ etc . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you know how treacherous conditions can be on the Scottish mountains in the middle of winter ? |
| 15 | The committee urged that the emphasis should henceforth be on the special needs for education of certain groups of children — those with learning difficulties — rather than on various categories of handicap . |
| 16 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 17 | Halling : " In this Parish , and distant about a mile from the Church and street which are on the western banks of the Medway is Upper Hailing , a small hamlet so denominated from its situation by the side of a narrow stony road , which runs beneath the range of hills and leads from Whornes Place , in Cuxtone , towards Paddlesworth , Birling , etc. , it now consists only of two tenements one of which was a Chapel , and the other opposite is an Ale house . |
| 18 | The head also needs to reward those who are on the right lines through drawing attention to successes , prominently displaying thank you letters on the staff room notice board , using time to convince , cheer , direct , push and urge . |
| 19 | Some remains of the plant are on the eastern outskirts of the village , while a mile to the north , off the A386 , the National Trust preserves the former engine house of Wheal Betsy Mine , which produced lead , silver and zinc into the late 1870s , being known then as the Prince Arthur Consols mine . |
| 20 | Members of staff are on the editorial boards of major journals and publications in the Italian field . |
| 21 | Bloody film star he ought to be , not a and he you see him on the television , he 's been on a few times at night ! |
| 22 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 23 | By mid-afternoon they were on the lower slopes of Lustley Foin . |
| 24 | The most productive coalfields in Great Britain in the 1980s were on the eastern flanks of the Pennines . |
| 25 | This contradicts the requirement on the quotation that the contract be on the standard conditions of the seller . |
| 26 | she 's on the organic crisps at school and er |
| 27 | Although the emphasis of the Poema is on the heroic qualities of El Cid , we have a more fully rounded portrait of his life , marriage , family and exile . |
| 28 | Starting from the premise that actions and attitudes are motivated by the maximization of self interest , the focus is on the micro-social conditions under which the ideology of individualism may be transcended , and collective aims given priority . |
| 29 | Instead , his mind is on the great frosts of his youth , when the snow lay so deep on The Crown Green that they had to dig a trench to the shop door . |
| 30 | ‘ It is on the lower slopes of Mount Ararat , ’ Miss Fergusson responded . |