Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] 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 | Many rehousing schemes were on the peripheries of the conurbations , often in adjacent local authorities , some still designated as rural districts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Body is covered with overlapping feathers which give a smooth surface , large surface are on the wings ( for easy locomotion ) , and provide good insulation . |
| 7 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 8 | As usual Black people are on the margins , and seem to be animated props . |
| 9 | Now , it would appear from this article , that this ideal is shattered and a two-tiered Europe is on the cards . |
| 10 | Precautions are also taken to prevent any attempts at industrial espionage while the confidential documents are on the premises . |
| 11 | The rough insiders are on the walls , defending God 's true believers from Romanism and immorality . |
| 12 | In spite of many attempts to extend the use of hormones to the treatment of other cancers , it appears that their important effects are on the organs which they normally control . |
| 13 | Mr Huntingdon ensures that at least two of these qualified staff are on the premises at all times . |
| 14 | The five-bedroom house is on the books of Jackson-Stops & Staff with Stimsons at £250,000 . |
| 15 | He knew virtually nothing about European federalism , but here was Mrs Thatcher warning us that political union was on the cards . |
| 16 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards . |
| 19 | The selection of these particular texts is on the grounds that they succeed in overcoming a dualistic representation of the relationship between the human subject and culture by avoiding reductionism ( either to the external world , as in behaviourism , or to the given subject , as in essentialism ) . |
| 20 | Horizontal rows of blue and green spots are on the flanks and belly . |
| 21 | A WIN on the Daily Mirror 's sparkling Diamond Bingo means a trip to Euro Disney is on the cards for David Hughes 's eight grandchildren . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No I do n't think so , I think there 's a difference because the other excesses were on the peasants ' part now it 's okay whatever the peasants did , you know , it 's not terrible it 's , it 's fine to let the peasants do that , and also erm into the war period the peasants are gon na but must n't do it , this time it 's like okay , now we 're the party that 's saying let's go as far as we can . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards . |
| 29 | Hysteria in the Middle East was on the cards as Begin claimed that the war in Lebanon was ‘ divinely ordained ’ . |
| 30 | A third successive century was on the cards until he suffered a ‘ kick ’ on the pink in frame four with his break on 91 . |