Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
| 2 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 3 | The authoritarian parent or dutiful child attitudes that so often characterized these relationships in previous generations are thankfully on the way out . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 6 | These studies would seem to support the view of a society in which sexual norms are slowly on the change . |
| 7 | Of course , not everyone is so obsessed with body size that they are constantly on the ‘ yo-yo ’ of diet , break diet , diet , break diet , and so on . |
| 8 | This Tony Bowran clearly has no intention of being , as he is well aware that art directors are constantly on the look out for new styles and new approaches to make their clients ' products visually jump off the page . |
| 9 | Night Goblins cultivate many kinds of toxic fungi in their dark caves and they are constantly on the look-out for new and exotic varieties . |
| 10 | ‘ They are a relatively small branch with only six staff but Manager Tony Hoskins and his team are constantly on the lookout for potential Royline users , ’ said Anne . |
| 11 | The Society 's own collection consists of approximately 100 pictures , but we are constantly on the look out for new ‘ treasures ’ . |
| 12 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 13 | People are suddenly on the move . |
| 14 | While comparatively few in number , Newfoundland rugby players are obviously on the right track and Parfrey , an enthusiastic provincial coach , can point to solid recent growth . |
| 15 | That is the training they do whilst they are basically on the job . |
| 16 | As a businessman , it would be foolhardy of me to pour my own money nilly-willy into the club and so I am constantly on the look-out for companies willing to risk investing in a lowly but forward-looking team . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I think the values for leasing are perhaps on the low side , considering that people know what they are going to get this year . |
| 18 | ‘ Most wedding rings are plain or , if engraved , are so on the inside . |
| 19 | An occupier , therefore , is not liable to his neighbour under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher for damage caused by ordinary trees which are self-sown because they are naturally on the land . |
| 20 | At the time of this Report , knitters ' order intake volumes for Autumn 1993 are down on the previous year , in part as retailers delay ordering and in part reflecting recessionary conditions in key export markets in Europe and Japan . |
| 21 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
| 22 | you know how you get those rows that are literally on a row ? |
| 23 | Even car towaways are in on the act . |
| 24 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 25 | The western American states are in on the act , too — Oregon , California and Alaska are growing at seven per cent — twice the rate of the remainder of the country . |
| 26 | We plod along for two or three decades with the occasional recording of individual sonatas and then along comes a centenary year and all and sundry are in on the act at the same time . |
| 27 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |
| 28 | You are in on the ground floor of something very , very exciting ! ’ |
| 29 | Now the Chinese are in on the act : The Nanchang company are exporting their mopeds and motorbikes to Britain . |
| 30 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |