Example sentences of "be on for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 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
3 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 .
4 The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election .
5 Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain .
6 The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North .
7 The race is on for the spare hand-outs
8 And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin .
9 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 .
10 And , Save our Sausage.The heat is on for the British Banger .
11 So the search is on for an acceptable new arrangement for increased French involvement in the military affairs of the alliance .
12 Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors .
13 The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor .
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