Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you make it a chore or a conflict you are already back on the vicious cycle . |
| 2 | Both are well up on the old 1.8 's 89hp and 101lbf ft , and ( even allowing for an extra 234kg/516lb of flab ) power/weight ratio has improved by 19% . |
| 3 | Even the way he looked at them was enough to assure her that they were way down on the social scale . |
| 4 | To those who did agree to sell , but now find their acceptance forms are being returned to them , I can only hope that you are not too disappointed at being involuntarily back on the winning side ! |
| 5 | I think she 's on back on the right track as well with her . |
| 6 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |
| 7 | This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers . |
| 8 | And Japan is now in on the Common Open Software Environment act too — Fujitsu Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Hitachi Ltd and Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard Co are forming COSE Japan Special Interest Group , a counterpart , they say , to the existing operation in the US . |
| 9 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 10 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 11 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 12 | Twenty fi I mean last week there was a hundred sixty in and that was actually up on the previous couple of weeks , just |