Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] on [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
| 6 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |
| 7 | A number of pupils and staff are away on a four-day school trip and efforts were being made today to contact them and break the dreadful news . |
| 8 | They are standing ln for the WRAC Staff Band Who are away on an important engagement in Eastbourne and Who have only recently returned from a tour in BAOR . |
| 9 | I am away on a short holiday in Scotland between August 14th-26th but would be pleased to discuss this over the telephone when I 'm back . |
| 10 | Other reptiles , including slow worms , smooth snakes and lizards are already on the protected list . |
| 11 | 3060 One or more modules are already on an active DC elsewhere |
| 12 | An attempt has been made to activate a DC/DCs where one or more of the modules referenced are already on an active DC via a different package . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Exuberance will characterise them , according to Robert Stern , simply because ‘ unlike the corporations of more recent times , the owners are not on a theological mission ’ . |
| 15 | When you are not on the international panel it is hard to work your way in . |
| 16 | If you are not on the inside track , then decision are taken over which you have no influence . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The royal pair are not on the Civil List . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The piano sonatas of Sir Michael Tippett are not on the same level of inspiration and invention as his string quartets , symphonies or concertos . |
| 21 | A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific , if you are not on the receiving end . |
| 22 | I do not mean just dating by this ; there are all sorts of relationships that you can enter into that are just on a one-to-one basis . |
| 23 | and we 're right on the main road and I reckon about two hundred people walked past the garden today watching us . |
| 24 | Erm investment banking and fine china in the market circumstances er performed well , erm although they 're down on the previous year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You 're already on the right track ! |
| 27 | We 're just on the same wavelength . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're on the right deck — you 're just on the wrong side of the ship ! |
| 29 | ‘ It 's like Elinor says , you 're not on the right wavelength . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My dear , are n't we glad we 're not on the high seas tonight ! ' said Mrs Hollidaye . |