Example sentences of "[be] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 2 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 3 | You definitely are on along the right lines . |
| 4 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 5 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 6 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 7 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | Right , well we 're on to a we 're on to a new er a new era , a different erm different angle . |
| 10 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 11 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 12 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 13 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 16 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 17 | For other left-of-field theatre events check what 's on at the enterprising Projects Arts Centre , in East Sussex Street . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 20 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 21 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 22 | A zero fret sits in front of the large nut , then it 's on to the real love-it-or-loathe-it Höfner feature : the headstock . |
| 23 | The daily conference over , it 's on to the main activity of the day for me , which is a Long Northwind Patrol . |
| 24 | Sharon 's done hers , she 's done the green one , she 's on to the pink one |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman is on to a weak point . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 29 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 30 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |