Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 2 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 3 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 4 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 5 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 6 | Leaves which are small , round or elliptic , fleshy , glossy , bright green , tapering towards the base without leaf-stalks , are arranged opposite on a stiff , round , fleshy stem . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 8 | THE sons of two members of 60s rock band Cream are to appear together on a new album to be released in January . |
| 9 | To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections . |
| 10 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |
| 11 | The arms carry spines ; in euryalid genera on the ventral part of the arm , while in the ophiurids they are carried laterally on the lateral arm plates . |
| 12 | He accepts that his input into the group is still the largest but believes the other members are contributing more on a growing basis . |
| 13 | Service points outside the ‘ central ’ library are grouped together on the familiar area basis . |
| 14 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 15 | The key language points of the unit are previewed clearly on a double-page spread . |
| 16 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 17 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 18 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 19 | OVER the last year a considerable amount of progress has been carried out on the Ex-GWR 0-6-2T 5637 locomotive . |
| 20 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 21 | Andrew Kuttner , Pat Sutton and Eddie Welch have been training together on a regular basis at the Sports Centre for two years . |
| 22 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 23 | Now we 're going fast on a downward slide |
| 24 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 25 | We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses . |
| 26 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 27 | And in spite of the major reorganisations in education and planned services arrangements , no jobs have been lost and they 're at it again on this amendment lies absolute lies and you can not stand , you lied in P and R , and you 're lying now on a speculative business about people 's |
| 28 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |
| 29 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 30 | I mean they , they both firmly saying they 're coming back on a full time basis , |