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 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 4 | You definitely are on along the right lines . |
| 5 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 6 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 7 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 8 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Right , well we 're on to a we 're on to a new er a new era , a different erm different angle . |
| 11 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 12 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 13 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 14 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 15 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 16 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 17 | Gesner would be on in a few moments and then the thing would lift off . |
| 18 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 21 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 22 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 23 | For other left-of-field theatre events check what 's on at the enterprising Projects Arts Centre , in East Sussex Street . |
| 24 | If that 's on at the same time as soccer , we 'll have two sets going . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 27 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 28 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The daily conference over , it 's on to the main activity of the day for me , which is a Long Northwind Patrol . |