Example sentences of "[is] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check out Ian Marshalls rating … he s down as a central defender . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 4 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 5 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman is on to a weak point . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |
| 13 | ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year . |
| 14 | If that can happen to one of the most prestigious shopping streets in the world , we can be sure that dispossessin' is in for a good run . |
| 15 | There are fears that Wall Street , which this week hit a peak , is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks . |
| 16 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
| 17 | Summers was quoted in national newspapers as saying : ‘ If Sugar thinks we are a run of the mill first division club , he is in for a big shock . |
| 18 | In my experience , perfect compromises are unusual animals , and I fear that the hon. Gentleman is in for a disillusioning experience if the tax is ever brought into practice . |
| 19 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 20 | Geoff Wildinson , assistant director for filed work , recognises the SSD is in for a tough time . |
| 21 | The McBrides Fashions series is down to a two-horse points . |
| 22 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
| 23 | This is down to a local council 's Engineers Department who provide the street names for new developments . |
| 24 | The hole you dig should be round , not square , since there is much less effort expended in digging a round hole — and if the digging is down through a grassed surface the size of the hole can be anticipated and one complete turf taken out to be replaced later . |
| 25 | From what he tells me , she 's in with a good chance . ’ |
| 26 | Joan 's just rung see they come over for , all of them come over for dinner every Sunday , and er Joan 's er Andrea 's going out with a crowd of them today she 's in with a nice girl a girl er married and the husband , he 's treats Andrea as if it 's a baby sister , so he 's more or less looking after her which is Joan 's very pleased about |
| 27 | So MacDonald reckons he 's in for a hard night at Broomfield on Tuesday . |
| 28 | Silksworth professional Keith Trotter is off to a good start while Houghton are thankful that they injury to Neil Bainbridge is not as serious as first thought . |
| 29 | Hampered by a lack of guidelines the Chancellor 's initiative to encourage private investment in public projects is off to a slow start . |
| 30 | Bob is off to a Healing Service . |