Example sentences of "[vb mod] be on the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Each tertiary centre should be able to treat 3000–4500 new non-surgical oncology patients per year , and should be on the same site as a major general hospital .
2 In the second case ( necessary false consciousness/irrational prejudice ) racism is seen as dysfunctional because it distorts the perception of reality and generates division amongst those who should be on the same side .
3 The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position .
4 The comment may be continued over more than one line , and in order for the header to scan successfully , the files and the module header file must be on the same account .
5 He 'll be a year behind me , and he 'll be on the same money as me .
6 If everything tumbled into place there was just a chance that they could be on the same ferry as the Renault , at 1330 hours the next day .
7 They would be on the same corridor as him in the Embassy 's accommodation annexe , and later they would talk through the case history together .
8 ‘ Look , ’ he said , braking and getting out — at least they would be on the same level then , instead of her being ten frigid feet tall and him crouching six inches high in the driving seat of his car — ‘ about last night … ’
9 Then the assessment of B's damages would be on the same basis and B would similarly be entitled to £500 .
10 ‘ Of course I 'll take you , ’ Fabia replied without hesitation , and was about to add that she would be on the same flight with her when she was halted by a change in Cara 's expression .
11 CERN , for instance , is ready to swing over to NT and abandon its Unix boxes because the administration side there is awash with incompatible PCs and Macs and if the techies give up their Unix stations then everybody will be on the same system .
12 This perspective leads to the conclusion that in the absence of clear words to the contrary , the hypothetical letting will be on the same terms as the actual letting .
13 The vendors and management will be on the same side in their desire to minimise the Revenue 's slice of the deal and , though the doctrine in Ramsay and Furniss v Dawson [ 1984 ] AC 474 may now preclude the insertion into the transaction of " last-minute " artificial tax-avoidance steps , there is still room for adopting a tax-minimising strategy , as this too can be highly relevant to the price each side is willing to accept .
14 For example , if we pick every tenth house number in a street then all those selected will be on the same side of the street ; this could affect some aspect of the study .
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