Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 2 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 3 | Your job will be to place it on the barbecue and keep it turned . |
| 4 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 5 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 6 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 7 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 8 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 9 | Another is to record it on a transparency sheet , which can then be displayed by means of an overhead projector on a screen or blank wall . |
| 10 | SOMETHING is severely wrong with our support services if a confused woman feels that the only thing she can do with her newborn child is to leave it on a golf course in freezing conditions . |
| 11 | The other option for a Warlord is to put him on a wyvern or other big monster , but this is n't recommended . |
| 12 | The best method nowadays , of course , is to put it on the computer and let the computer plot the lot . |
| 13 | The alternative to burying cable in the walls is to run it on the surface in mini-trunking , and then use surface-mounted light switches . |
| 14 | The Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education is to advise me on the implications of the report for primary initial teacher training in future . |
| 15 | Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch . |
| 16 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 17 | One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability . |
| 18 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 19 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 20 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |