Example sentences of "be on the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm on the earlies in the morning now . |
2 | It can be on the plates in readiness , and then Jean and I will do the rest . |
3 | While it published scorching critiques of the diplomacy that had led Britain into war , MacDonald insisted that ‘ whatever our views may be on the origins of the war , we must go through with it . ’ |
4 | A main focus should be on the differences between written and spoken English . |
5 | The main emphasis will be on the determinants of competitiveness and trade performance and how this in turn affects the demand for labour by industry . |
6 | Those who depend entirely for their income on the state pension and means-tested income support benefits are likely to be on the fringes of unacceptable poverty unless the level of benefits is increased . |
7 | an Article 85-type prohibition of anticompetitive agreements , including an illustrative , but not exhaustive , list of banned practices such as price fixing , collusive tendering , resale price maintenance ( RPM ) , market sharing , and collective boycotts : the focus of the prohibition is to be on the effects of agreements rather than the specific form that they take ; |
8 | Retailers with power will , perhaps less commonly , use it to invoke restraints such as slotting allowances for the right of a manufacturer 's product to be on the shelves of a supermarket . |
9 | Piotr Skubiszewski 's forthcoming contribution to the series ‘ Storia Universale dell'Arte ’ , the volumes on Western civilisation edited by Enrico Castelnuovo , will not be on the shelves until 1993 . |
10 | Similarly , if runners-up win substantial prizes , arrange where possible for the handover to be on the premises of a local supplier . |
11 | 1 SCIENCE MUSEUM : Interview with James Goddard : he has to leave at 9.00 for Heathrow but will be on the premises from 0630 onwards . |
12 | Others will be on the problems of exile , alcoholism and emotional crisis . |
13 | Mravinsky 's attitude to dynamics seems to be on the lines of ‘ no gradual inflexion unless explicit instructions are given to the contrary ’ . |
14 | Sketchy though Mr Foster 's account may be on the mechanics of the mass suspension of disbelief that supported the Reichmanns ' rise , he is at his best in explaining , meeting by meeting , how they came back to earth . |
15 | Eight such units were envisaged , and it was anticipated that between three and five would be on the streets at any given time ( The Guardian , 10 May 1991 ) . |
16 | The Army had fought enough battles about their right to be on the streets at the end of the last century when Salvationists had been imprisoned , ridiculed , despised and attacked by hooligans . |
17 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
18 | Accurately-timed aerial photographs of the water-line together with tide-tables gave contour maps of the beaches accurate to horizontal metres and vertical centimetres , There was very nearly a breach of security because of Bernal 's desire to be on the beaches by D + 1 . |
19 | Your announcement will be on the airways on Sunday morning . |
20 | When Selina 's new hour-long documentary on King Carlos of Spain is broadcast at Christmas , Ted Brocklebank 's name will be on the credits as executive producer . |
21 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
22 | And what with Swindon chasing promotion and Gloucester playing in the cup semi-final we 've got quite a week ahead but the biggest crowd will be on the banks of the River Thames for the boat race . |
23 | Cherry Hill is in the ‘ International Modern ’ style and could equally well be on the outskirts of Stuttgart or San Francisco as Sunningdale . |
24 | One is believed to be on the outskirts of Middlesbrough , near The Post House Hotel . |
25 | But it is the solar eclipse on the 24th that holds the greatest potential for you : an addition to the family or change of location could be on the cards for next year . |
26 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
27 | ANOTHER fast food takeaway could be on the cards for Darlington . |
28 | A cut of 1% to 7% could be on the cards in tomorrow 's autumn statement and this pushed the FT-SE 100 Index ahead by over 19 points to 2714.6 . |
29 | A float could be on the cards by the end of next year , but before then there could be a few punch-ups with Britain 's farmers who provide all the milk to make the cheese . |
30 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |