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

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1 Er , the recommendation is on about the fourth
2 Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain .
3 Once more the search is on for the woman with the most beautiful hair — could it be you ?
4 Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth .
5 The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North .
6 If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre .
7 and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went .
8 As part of a series of exhibitions which reassess the work of individual sculptors , Galerie Patrice Bellanger is presenting an exhibition of the work of Joseph-Charles Marin ( 1759–1834 ) , pupil , rival and friend of Claude Michel Clodion , an exhibition of whose work is on at the Louvre .
9 An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May .
10 Total Recall 's on at the Savoy is n't it ?
11 The Highwaymen is on at the
12 And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin .
13 And The Boys from Brazil was on in the evening .
14 Seven o'clock an evening of entertainment with clairvoyant medium Brian Gibson is on at the Scout 's Headquarters on Lovers Lane at Newark tickets are two fifty there seven until nine .
15 It was a cold winter , and he soon found out that the theatre was centrally heated and the heating in his dressing-room was on throughout the day and night , so he moved in .
16 The Admirable Crichton was on at the Royalty , the Three Ragtime Boys at the Alhambra , and at A. E. Pickard Unlimited 's Panopticon ( Doors open at six during the Spring holiday ) , there was ‘ Fancy Fair and the Laughter Mirrors ’ .
17 I do n't want to turn round cos the lights are on at the moment .
18 Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river .
19 The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth .
20 The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room .
21 The lights were on inside the hut .
22 Lights were on in the primary school .
23 The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena .
24 When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine .
25 Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine .
26 The lights were on in the Incident Room .
27 The race is on for the spare hand-outs
28 As the winds begin to blow , the race is on off the coast of Britain to break the world windsurfing record .
29 Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices .
30 No the li the lights was on in the tunnel .
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