Example sentences of "be [adv] on a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests . |
| 2 | You know , if , particularly so , if you 're only on a subsistence wage in the first place . |
| 3 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ With so few players to choose from , we are always on a knife edge . |
| 4 | The manager wo n't be there on a Whit Monday , only the men who are doing overtime . ’ |
| 5 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 6 | The ‘ abolitionists ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 770 ) were therefore on a collision course with the Long March veterans . |
| 7 | The woman is married to the man 's best friend who is away on a business trip . |
| 8 | Right now he 's away on a skiing holiday catching the last of the snow . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 10 | And then on the platform every week there 's a evacuation drill where it 's usually on a Sunday night or a Saturday night it was changed to recently . |
| 11 | Two more men were taken from the hall by ambulance , and one of them is still on a life support machine . |
| 12 | One is still on a life support machine . |
| 13 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 14 | Is it really suggested that it is in the best interests of the community that the proper approach to remuneration is purely on a time basis , and supply related to the question whether there are sufficient people prac-tising ? |
| 15 | that he 's maybe on a learning curve , do you know what I mean ? |
| 16 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 17 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 18 | Marsh and Best are currently on a sell-out UK tour telling hilarious tales of their on pitch and off pitch antics at the height of their careers . |
| 19 | They are the first Aymara band to have anumber one in Bolivia and are currently on a world tour . |
| 20 | ( According to some opposition-inspired reports he had fled the country and was in hiding , while according to others he was merely on a business trip . ) |
| 21 | Eric was away on a school cruise , so there would only be me and her . |
| 22 | As long as I was in the country I was home on a Friday night and them again till Monday morning . |
| 23 | He could n't forget he 'd been an Army sergeant , he talked like one and acted as if he was still on a parade ground or something . |
| 24 | Stockton 's City Challenge bid document was also on a Whitehall desk in London today . |
| 25 | The Works was now on a war footing . |
| 26 | He was here on a fishing trip — trying to find out if Newman had told me something that might help his own investigations . ’ |
| 27 | He was there on a Kodak sponsorship to cover a gruelling four-day Super Marathon through the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria , but he found himself constantly distracted by the staggering terrain that surrounded him . |