Example sentences of "[be] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
| 8 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |
| 9 | Other reptiles , including slow worms , smooth snakes and lizards are already on the protected list . |
| 10 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 11 | When you are not on the international panel it is hard to work your way in . |
| 12 | If you are not on the inside track , then decision are taken over which you have no influence . |
| 13 | When a movement called Christians for Socialism started in 1972 , they chose to have their inaugural meeting in Santiago and received a message from the President assuring them that ‘ Divisions today are not on the religious level or on the level of philosophic ideas : the real division is between imperialism and dependent countries . ’ |
| 14 | The royal pair are not on the Civil List . |
| 15 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 16 | The piano sonatas of Sir Michael Tippett are not on the same level of inspiration and invention as his string quartets , symphonies or concertos . |
| 17 | A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific , if you are not on the receiving end . |
| 18 | and we 're right on the main road and I reckon about two hundred people walked past the garden today watching us . |
| 19 | Erm investment banking and fine china in the market circumstances er performed well , erm although they 're down on the previous year . |
| 20 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 21 | You 're already on the right track ! |
| 22 | We 're just on the same wavelength . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're on the right deck — you 're just on the wrong side of the ship ! |
| 24 | ‘ It 's like Elinor says , you 're not on the right wavelength . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ My dear , are n't we glad we 're not on the high seas tonight ! ' said Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 26 | cos they did , they work on a softer approach you know the police , they 're not , they 're not on the hard |
| 27 | But you 're not on the medical register . |
| 28 | Ca n't have that , and especially ca n't have it while you 're still on the sick list . |
| 29 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 30 | And you 're always on the wrong side of the road which does n't help Well he did n't expect that . |