Example sentences of "be on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 2 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 3 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | Right , well we 're on to a we 're on to a new er a new era , a different erm different angle . |
| 6 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 7 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 11 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 12 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 13 | But my guess is that the Festival is on to a real winner in the merchandising stakes , having seen bits of the logo featured in imaginative guises on clothing , stationary , mugs , and even Festival cheques . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is on to a weak point . |
| 15 | So any cream or potion which implies ( the advertising standards authority objects to claims that can not be proven ) that your skin will look more radiant and youthful is on to a good thing . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |
| 20 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 21 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 22 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 23 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 24 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 25 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 26 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |