Example sentences of "[noun prp] be on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Given time and with his new Danish defensive partner Torben Piechnik were on different wavelengths . |
| 2 | ‘ Bert Weald 's on twenty pounds a year now , ’ he complained . |
| 3 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 4 | Harry Kogon is in charge of piano accordion and flute , Graham Dixon is on Northumbrian pipes , and the band is completed by Neil Chadwick on guitar . |
| 5 | Even after eighteen years at Harris , Harris and Overdene he was , he reflected , about as much in the dark on legal questions as Donald was on medical issues . |
| 6 | He also talked in Morocco to Barbara Walters of ABC news , Walters was among those Western journalists with whom the Shah was on good terms and who could expect exclusive interviews when they came to Teheran , as well as personal attention from the Iranian ambassador in their won countries . |
| 7 | Curtis Price asks : ‘ would Purcell have poked such cruel fun at one of his chief collaborators ? ’ ; we might add that Durfey was on good terms with Thomas Betterton the producer and Josias Priest the choreographer : a send-up without his consent seems highly unlikely . |
| 8 | You will follow every suggestion she makes because the only way you can get back to Paris is on two feet and I doubt your ability to even walk across this room . ’ |
| 9 | Malta was on short rations and the menu was sparse but we must have consumed most of the champagne remaining in the club cellars . |
| 10 | Sometimes Greece 's place on the map can even help , in the periods of history when Europe is on easy terms with its neighbours to the east . |
| 11 | Initially , Calandrini was on excellent terms with his mentor , De Dominis , lodging with him at the Savoy Hospital . |
| 12 | No Prime Minister after Macmillan would maintain the fiction that Britain was on equal terms with the super-powers . |
| 13 | The Duke of York is on naval duties which left the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Kent as the only Royal Family members at Ascot . |
| 14 | The Duke of York is on naval duties which left the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Kent as the only Royal Family members at Ascot . |
| 15 | Channell remembered a curious phone call from him — not an everyday occurrence , and Channell was on respectful tenterhooks — — in which the president began : ‘ I just do not understand Tip O'Neill . |
| 16 | No generalisations can be made about the results of the two prestigious sales of contemporary art held at Sotheby 's and Christie 's on successive evenings last month . |