Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 2 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 3 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 4 | But when you need them , you are out of practice with drawing them forth so , by the time you 've got practised , you 're on to a new set of thoughts which needs a different extraction technique — which has to be practised ! |
| 5 | Right , well we 're on to a we 're on to a new er a new era , a different erm different angle . |
| 6 | Six eight you 've got to be careful with because you 're in to a different type of time . |
| 7 | We 're off to a fabulous start . |
| 8 | It 's early days er to make predictions , but we 're off to a positive start for the year . |
| 9 | Our fashions are off to a gentle start with soft neutral colours but do n't miss the great style of the shawl-collared coat by Nina Miklin ( Pattern 3 ) . |
| 10 | Again , although they and their families enjoy a standard of living comparable to that of many white-collar families , their social worlds are still to a large extent separate from those of the latter , except where linkages of kinship , or to a lesser degree of neighbourhood , can span the social distance between them . |
| 11 | Although CDs are still to a large extent an instrument of liability management , such arbitrage has become increasingly important in driving new issuance recently . |
| 12 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 13 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 14 | Do you know I 've had a blue pen , I 've had a black pen and now I 'm down to a bloody pencil . |
| 15 | If your lawn goes into winter in good condition , it will be off to a good start next year , so prepare it now . |
| 16 | But the basic uncertainty in the mother may well transmit itself to the child and the relationship between the two of them could be off to a shaky start . |
| 17 | Now education has of that thirty nine million the Education Department benefited by about eighteen million , and we took , I think it was erm four million out yesterday , we will be back to a net gain of fourteen million on education and social services have benefited since eighty five by about to the tune of nine million and or eight point six million , and we took about four hundred thousand out of that yesterday . |
| 18 | God may be totally other to humanity , but at the same time ( as in the quotation from sura 50 ) God is said to be closer to a human being than is his or her jugular vein . |
| 19 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 20 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 21 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 22 | Widnes were back to a full complement of players by the time Tony Thorniley scored Warrington 's second , again from an inspired Mackey pass , but the visitors were powerless to prevent the centre reaching the line from 25 yards . |
| 23 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 24 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing local network-based multisystem electronic mail products , hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter roll-out : Hitachi reckons that it 's on to a good thing because veca : International Data Corp predicts the worldwide market will be 77m users in 1996 ; Hitachi is expected to make a point of integration , management and directory synchronisation likely using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |
| 25 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 26 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 27 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 28 | But my guess is that the Festival is on to a real winner in the merchandising stakes , having seen bits of the logo featured in imaginative guises on clothing , stationary , mugs , and even Festival cheques . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman is on to a weak point . |
| 30 | So any cream or potion which implies ( the advertising standards authority objects to claims that can not be proven ) that your skin will look more radiant and youthful is on to a good thing . |