Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tough girls LOVECRAFT are currently on the continent wowing all and sundry . |
| 2 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 3 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 4 | As we know , the FORM , or pattern shaping , is an integral part of the Electronic E-6000 , but it has been around on Passap System machines as the Form Computer Program for ten years or so , and to many knitters it is still surrounded by mystery and suspicion . |
| 5 | The emphasis in his own later work , and of others who have followed him , has been increasingly on the most vulnerable . |
| 6 | HIGH winds and heavy seas have prevented the salvaging of the 1,500-tonne Danish cargo vessel Bettina Danca , which has been aground on the island of Stroma in the Pentland Firth since last weekend . |
| 7 | Top End , which supports X/Open 's Distributed Transaction Processing model and XA Resource Manager interface , has been up on NCR 3000s since May of 1991 , and is now in use at multiple sites . |
| 8 | Last year a team from Hereford were the winners and the Castaways raft has been back on the Wye this week practising to make it a double . |
| 9 | As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure . |
| 10 | Since 1987 an extensive programme of restoration has been underway on the fresco cycle by Masolino in the chapel of Saint Catherine in the upper church . |
| 11 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 12 | Marriage has been much on our minds in the SHE office of late . |
| 13 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 14 | So the fact that the vehicle has been out on shall we a mor a morning delivery and the the back shift man comes in and has a look at it , he would then have to do it all again . |
| 15 | A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants . |
| 16 | Jokes about men driving are mostly on the macho theme : ‘ Men love a fast and powerful car , especially painted red — it 's a virility symbol . ’ |
| 17 | But then terrific top-end power and tarmac-scorching standing starts were not on the design team 's agenda . |
| 18 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |
| 19 | Though the onus of proving entitlement to the benefit claimed is normally on the claimant , in a number of cases the burden of proof is placed on the adjudication officer to satisfy the tribunal on the balance of probabilities of particular facts . |
| 20 | Dying is n't on the agenda . |
| 21 | What I do n't know is when on the Monday . |
| 22 | Do n't become frustrated if the particular book or journal you want is not on the shelf where you 'd expect to find it , just when you want it . |
| 23 | SunSoft claims many SCO Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature amongst the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up on the operating system . |
| 24 | Employers who claim they can stand aside from com from com from competitive pressure to undercut are truly on one . |
| 25 | She 'd been here on Friday , and he had n't ! |
| 26 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 27 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 28 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 29 | The soles of her feet and the then they knew she 'd been up on her feet you know . |
| 30 | The first time , he 'd been virtually on their tail as he 'd rounded a bend . |