Example sentences of "be on [prep] the [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 're on about the old King George ! |
| 6 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 7 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 8 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 9 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 12 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 13 | For other left-of-field theatre events check what 's on at the enterprising Projects Arts Centre , in East Sussex Street . |
| 14 | If that 's on at the same time as soccer , we 'll have two sets going . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The daily conference over , it 's on to the main activity of the day for me , which is a Long Northwind Patrol . |
| 17 | Sharon 's done hers , she 's done the green one , she 's on to the pink one |
| 18 | Having finished a job , they do n't sit around enjoying the results — it 's on to the next . |
| 19 | And when one house is improved to the limit , it 's on to the next there too . |
| 20 | Smash 'em all and it 's on to the next level . |
| 21 | Er , the recommendation is on about the fourth |
| 22 | Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain . |
| 23 | The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North . |
| 24 | The race is on for the spare hand-outs |
| 25 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 26 | If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre . |
| 27 | And , Save our Sausage.The heat is on for the British Banger . |
| 28 | It does so by going to a series of intermediate goals , for example the junction of the branch it is on with the main stem . |
| 29 | what is on at the local theatre ; |
| 30 | Monumental Reputation : Robert Adam and the Emperor 's Palace is on at the National Library of Scotland from 1 June to 30 September 1992 , and at Kenwood , London , from 4 November 1992 to 28 February 1993 . |