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Example sentences of "[be] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February .
2	There is one other point I 'd just like because yo you 've been on about Labour controlled Councils .
3	‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin .
4	It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round .
5	‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away .
6	I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment .
7	New works by her are on at American Fine Arts from 6 to 27 March ) while Michael St John , also smitten with folks from ‘ toon town , paints cartoon characters in the act of doing double takes against vast white backgrounds ( at Amy Lipton until the end of the month ) .
8	They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on .
9	The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s .
10	Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day .
11	Lights are on in some of the windows as milkmen and postmen swallow mugs of hot tea .
12	At Reitzel , Emily Chang 's newest abstractions are on until 30 May and at June Kelly there are recent works by Edwin Rudz ( 15 May–23 June ) .
13	‘ Oh , you 're on about that again ?
14	Well , this , you know we 're on about this money
15	Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this .
16	Right we 're on to this roll now .
17	You 're on until ten , half-past ten at night and you go home and you 're back here as soon as you 're up again .
18	They 're on before two .
19	No , I du n no what I 'm on about either .
20	I 'm not on about houses I 'm on about main buildings like St Paul 's an' all that
21	erm I 'm on about big tins .
22	I 'm on till twelve tonoight ! ’
23	Oh I 'm on till seven , will you be awake when you get to the bus stop then ?
24	I 'm on in five minutes , that old ass slowed me down . ’
25	They 'd be on to central heating systems next .
26	So I put them two and a half up to press with this one and then I can turn it over and I 'll be on to third side .
27	Now the hunt must be on for tryp-killing drug molecules which will actually penetrate into the choroid epithelium .
28	Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about .
29	Well before Cordoba made his debut over today 's course two months ago , his name was being whispered behind many a well-respected hand as the one to be on for next year 's 2000 Guineas .
30	I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time .