Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 2 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 3 | It is included at this point on the grounds that its central focus is on the meanings and understandings that people use to make sense of their everyday lives . |
| 4 | By 1914 the Liberal party was on the ropes and the Unionists could look forward confidently to the election that could not be long delayed . |
| 5 | Body is covered with overlapping feathers which give a smooth surface , large surface are on the wings ( for easy locomotion ) , and provide good insulation . |
| 6 | The five-bedroom house is on the books of Jackson-Stops & Staff with Stimsons at £250,000 . |
| 7 | He knew virtually nothing about European federalism , but here was Mrs Thatcher warning us that political union was on the cards . |
| 8 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 9 | The table is believed to date from the 1930s and could have been given to the club by a local building firm , whose managing director was on the Quakers board . |
| 10 | This trite and dreary epithet was on the tips of many tongues at last week 's Collections Premieres Dusseldorf , the first major preview of fashion for next autumn , and inexpertly disguises a pronounced lack of vision . |
| 11 | The Red Lion was on the outskirts of town , in ‘ the country ’ — if so it could be called — where fields showed coyly between pre-war semis , sprouting electricity sub-stations and pylons , drive-in garden centres and the odd cow or two . |
| 12 | That evening I did not see anything of Fontanellato because our new home was on the outskirts of the village and we drove straight there . |
| 13 | Are they aware that the layouts produced by ZZAP ! are constantly being ripped off and copied by at least 40% of all other mag 's on the shelves ? ! |
| 14 | Links of this sort are intuitively likely to be stronger when local government has a major construction programme , with orders to distribute , or when large-scale development is on the cards and council co-operation is needed to ensure its success . |
| 15 | He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards . |
| 16 | Hysteria in the Middle East was on the cards as Begin claimed that the war in Lebanon was ‘ divinely ordained ’ . |
| 17 | A third successive century was on the cards until he suffered a ‘ kick ’ on the pink in frame four with his break on 91 . |
| 18 | However the main focus is on the Honours which are now on display in the Crown Room . |
| 19 | There was a series of scholarly exhibitions , but again , the main focus being on the pictures in the collection , and against that background I think the 1980s were a wonderful period . |