Example sentences of "[verb] be on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hartmut Kopsch has been on the phone , ’ said my wife Annie , ‘ about a job in Cranham . |
| 2 | ‘ Not only will everyone be rushing back to the city today , after the weekend vacation , but I understand Ross has been on the phone , getting the air-conditioning fixed and also seeing about someone to help you with the kids . |
| 3 | In 1991 , the emphasis has been on the achievement of ISO 9002 registration and the introduction of MRPII as Kodak works towards manufacturing excellence associated with World Class Companies . |
| 4 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 5 | I mention this and , since Sandra has been on The Word , after a while she remembers Amanda . |
| 6 | The show was commissioned by the Rochdale Art Gallery in 1987 , staged there in '89 and has been on the road since then . |
| 7 | Felix has been on the scheme for nine months , Gerald for two years . |
| 8 | Although not the longest reigning ( Belgium 's King Baudouin has been on the throne for 41 years ) , she is undoubtedly the most widely recognised monarch in the world ( there are currently over a billion bank notes and 16 billion coins in circulation bearing her portrait ) . |
| 9 | Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still … |
| 10 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 11 | Tim Roth has been on the edge of major success for years . |
| 12 | The conflict over housing land has been on the edge of the conurbation with a still undecided battle being fought over suburbanization by addition on a site-by-site basis . |
| 13 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 14 | Erika Barnes has been on the towpath in London to meet them |
| 15 | First , the fact that those in residential care are young people not children ; second , that the main emphasis in child care work has been on the discussion of personal family relationships and in working towards the return of children to their own families or placement with another family . |
| 16 | The aircraft has been on the airshow circuit for a number of years and now needs a lot of tender loving care to bring it back to pristine condition again . |
| 17 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 18 | Mr Roseberry , who was educated at Durham School , has been on the Middlesex playing staff since 1986 . |
| 19 | One of the reasons for the improvement in pedestrian safety on the Continent over the past decade , is that the focus of traffic calming work has been on the areas where most people live , that is on existing , not new , residential areas . |
| 20 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 21 | No. 9 has been on the parent line at Brecon operating Santa Specials , but all that has been seen out in Aberystwyth has been the diesel which has been out most weekdays on engineers ' trains . |
| 22 | Much of the discussion at recent conferences has been on the recession and how hard it is hitting the industry . |
| 23 | Philadelphia has been on the brink of going bust for months . |
| 24 | He has been on the manufacturing side of the industry for over 30 years . |
| 25 | Madonna has been on the cover of every major magazine . |
| 26 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 27 | Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging . |
| 28 | In official games , Platt has been on the mark twice in 13 appearances for the Italian giants and that represents a dramatic decline in his career ratio . |
| 29 | This central point in Marx 's and Engels 's work has been on the whole supported by later anthropological work . |
| 30 | The biggest single chunk of the firm 's spending over the past four years has been on the development of Windows NT , due to be launched on May 24th and aimed at the large and fast-growing market for the software that can link together sprawling networks of PCs . |