Example sentences of "[be] [adv] on [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before then Courtaulds had worked through agents , supplying fibre to customers such as Luserna , of Turin , who first bought viscose rayon in 1947 and are still on the company 's books . |
| 2 | Electric cars are now on the government 's list of 400 environmentally friendly products , meaning tax breaks for companies that use them . |
| 3 | ‘ But , remember , we are here on the King 's own business and the legends of this place sent Buckingham to his death . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We are here on the Regent 's authority , ’ Athelstan interrupted . |
| 5 | We are here on the regent 's orders ! ’ |
| 6 | Manson 's hand-picked ‘ death squad ’ for this murderous mission was made up of Susan Atkins , Patricia Krenwinkiel , Linda Kasabian ( who would later turn witness for the prosecution at the controversial trial that followed ) and Tex Watson who , when asked by a terrified Frykowski who he was , calmly replied , ‘ I am the devil , and I am here on the devil 's business . ’ |
| 7 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 8 | If , if the barriers were down er and you were still on the railway er th ah there 's only way you can escape . |
| 9 | The Caledonian Canal is right on the hotel 's doorstep and nearby Loch Eil and Loch Linnhe provide opportunities for boat trips . |
| 10 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 11 | The emphasis is less on an individual 's inner resources than on the danger he or she poses to others . |
| 12 | Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge . |
| 13 | This means that Peter Finnerty , one of the most experienced players in the Galway squad , is still on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 14 | The pressure — both economic and political — is now on the country 's other conglomerates , such as Anglo American-De Beers , to explain why they should remain in one piece . |
| 15 | I thought it was a good analogy to how Manson had affected the country , how he had really wedged himself into the American family to the extent that he 's now on the country 's most popular TV show . |
| 16 | Where a chattel is unlawfully on the plaintiff 's land and has caused actual damage , the plaintiff may retain the chattel until the damage has been paid for . |
| 17 | I thank God for David 's gift for expressing so clearly what is evidently on the Father 's heart for us . |
| 18 | An amulet , featuring a worm curled around a globe , was also on the general 's desk . |
| 19 | One of the head office buildings was originally on the company 's Liverpool manufacturing site but , in April 1982 , American Can moved this office to the Congleton complex because the Liverpool head office site was , by this time , no longer in the centre of the company 's operations . |
| 20 | In 1291 Archbishop Romeyn of York was to be imprisoned and fined 4000 marks for excommunicating the bailiffs of Bishop Bek of Durham while the bishop was abroad on the king 's service . |