Example sentences of "[noun sg] be on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 2 | Once more the search is on for the woman with the most beautiful hair — could it be you ? |
| 3 | and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went . |
| 4 | As part of a series of exhibitions which reassess the work of individual sculptors , Galerie Patrice Bellanger is presenting an exhibition of the work of Joseph-Charles Marin ( 1759–1834 ) , pupil , rival and friend of Claude Michel Clodion , an exhibition of whose work is on at the Louvre . |
| 5 | An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May . |
| 6 | Total Recall 's on at the Savoy is n't it ? |
| 7 | It was a cold winter , and he soon found out that the theatre was centrally heated and the heating in his dressing-room was on throughout the day and night , so he moved in . |
| 8 | As the winds begin to blow , the race is on off the coast of Britain to break the world windsurfing record . |
| 9 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 10 | The television was on in the living room . |
| 11 | Oh and there 's one thing I did n't tell you : Moscow Centre 's on to the pattern . |
| 12 | The haul is worth more a hundred thousand pounds and the hunt is on for the owners . |
| 13 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 14 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |
| 15 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
| 16 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 17 | The wash boiler is on in the kitchen so you can not see through the French window for steam . |
| 18 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 19 | Half seven the Hare and Hounds at Warsop and District Camera Club they 're meeting at the Hare and Hounds pub in Warsop and tonight they have a competition Slides in Action and seven thirty Slimmers Clubs U K are meeting at the Age Concern Centre Street in Beeston and seven thirty as well until eight thirty a mixed ability aerobics class is on in the gymnasium of Rainworth Recreation Centre that 's one fifty there and Joe Walker Zydeco Band direct from Louisiana are appearing at the Old Vic on Fletchergate at Nottingham tonight at half seven six pounds the tickets there four pounds concessions and they 're available on the door . |
| 20 | Hankies , me mam was on about the bogeys that they pull on the , back behind their bikes |