Example sentences of "[be] on [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It can be on the plates in readiness , and then Jean and I will do the rest .
2 And frankly it might as well be on the moon in terms of its accessibility to the area of search .
3 Why do all the hooligans seem to be on the row in front and the row behind me ?
4 A second revolution may well be on the way in Nicaragua , but one not to the liking of the FSLN .
5 A second revolution may well be on the way in Nicaragua , but one not to the liking of the FSLN .
6 Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question .
7 But biography had perhaps peaked as the hardback genre , and travel writing , except by the acknowledged masters , seemed to be on the decline in bookshops .
8 The incidence of schizophrenia is also thought to be on the decline in Australia .
9 Both the Ford and Nissan models should be on the market in time for summer .
10 The solar challenge is the race to the future … fifty machines looking more like spaceships than cars are on the grid in darwin … ready to roll for 2000 miles … ready to soak up the sun …
11 In Britain some 14 per cent of families with dependent children are headed by a lone parent , and figures for one-parent families are on the increase in Britain and the USA .
12 FITTED bedrooms are on the increase in Northern Ireland homes , though they account so far for only a small proportion of the very large bedroom furniture market .
13 British people are not on the dole in Germany ; they are on the dole in Britain .
14 That 's all those wonderful little codes that are on the cards in front of you .
15 All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire .
16 He told US financial markets that have been on a roller-coaster in anticipation of his victory that although he had campaigned on a message of economic growth he understood the importance of stability .
17 He wanted to tell Charles , that he had , at last , been on a bus in Brighton .
18 Erika Barnes has been on the towpath in London to meet them
19 Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging .
20 Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles .
21 Her thoughts had n't been on the task in hand .
22 Bruce Reynolds and Buster Edwards were eventually senetnced after being on the run in Mexico .
23 ‘ We were on a beach in Greece , ’ Susan said .
24 We were on the loose in France for a couple of months .
25 People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday .
26 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 .
27 It 's on the common in Buckley
28 But last year 's 1–0 win was UU 's first for seven years and this season , Jonathan Rose 's squad has been weakened by the absence of Irish international defender Paul Hollway who is on a course in Dublin .
29 Alternative solutions to these problems , such as the study of wound healing and the use of surgical techniques on animals in need of them , have become more widespread and surveys by Nedim Buyukmihci ( 1986 ) and R. Playter ( 1985 ) , for the American Association of Veterinary Clinicians , indicate that , since Rollin wrote , the practice is on the wane in North America .
30 Hockey ace is on the ball in Milan
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