Example sentences of "[adv] be on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 2 | Once seated , Denice tells us she 's only been on a blind date once before , and that was years ago . |
| 3 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 4 | Governments , military strategists , thousands of scientists , millions of dollars of time and research budgets have all been on a wild goose chase . |
| 5 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 6 | In the Daily Mail , Pamella 's story became the tale of a ‘ sickeningly self-obsessed , utterly immoral and unashamedly amoral … call-girl ’ , ‘ an avaricious , manipulative woman with a beautiful face … a pathetic figure whose life can now only be on a downward slope . ’ |
| 7 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 8 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 9 | I mean , alright a few mad things happened and everything and when I came home I was whacked because we 'd just been on a big adventure theme park for a month . |
| 10 | If ‘ appears ’ is the logical complement of ‘ thinks ’ , so that ‘ X appears φ to Y ’ means ‘ Y thinks X is φ ’ , then the thinking involved must somehow be on a different level , or something , to what we ordinarily understand by thinking . |
| 11 | I said , above , that if ‘ appears ’ is the logical complement of ‘ thinks ’ then ‘ the thinking involved must somehow be on a different level , or something , to what we ordinarily understand by thinking ’ . |
| 12 | This may not always be on a personal level — it could be in your work when you make an inner stand refusing to accept what is dished out to you by shutting that inner door . |
| 13 | Wytch Farm managers have also been on a teambuilding exercise — but instead of sailing on water , however , they went to ground ! |
| 14 | The emphasis throughout is on a practical approach concentrating on those areas where legal expertise is most likely to be required . |
| 15 | Wallace really is on a good run at the moment . |
| 16 | Does n't want to get caught , probably been in prison before , may even be on a suspended sentence and if they get caught they 're going to go erm in prison for about more than a year or so . |
| 17 | Landscape here is on a grand scale , and in consequence paintings will become larger . |
| 18 | You 've never been on a big boat ? |
| 19 | A party of Teesside journalists have recently been on a fact-finding tour of ICI 's Group Environmental Laboratory at Brixham , Devon . |