Example sentences of "be [adv prt] to [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 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 3 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 4 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 5 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 6 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
| 7 | A third are down to the thermal imaging capability . |
| 8 | All that has long since changed and , while talent can still win the day , both fields are down to the hard graft of making money . |
| 9 | I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for |
| 10 | Football , and Oxford United are through to the second round of the Coca-Cola cup . |
| 11 | Four of our sides are through to the second round … and Hereford have a chance to make a name for themselves here … first division teams do n't play until the third round … |
| 12 | Henley rowers Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent are through to the coxless pairs finals in the Olympics . |
| 13 | In the Famous Crouse Coronation Foursomes Medal , Mrs. S. Meredith and Mrs. B. Halsey are through to the next round . |
| 14 | Swindon Town are through to the third round of the Coca Cola Cup after a nine-two aggregate win over Torquay … and tonight Oxford United will be trying to join them but they 've got to win at Aston Villa … |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Right , well we 're on to a we 're on to a new er a new era , a different erm different angle . |
| 17 | Yeah , that 's even better , but then we 're on to the forty foots so that 's even better . |
| 18 | We 're on to the next area now are n't we ? |
| 19 | In rugby we 're down to the last eight … in the Pilkington Cup … which means Gloucester are two matches away from Twickenham … they 've got a game on their hands tomorrow though … away to first division leaders Orrell |
| 20 | Six eight you 've got to be careful with because you 're in to a different type of time . |
| 21 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |
| 22 | We 're off to a fabulous start . |
| 23 | It 's early days er to make predictions , but we 're off to a positive start for the year . |
| 24 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 25 | And then they 're off to the next one . |
| 26 | Today we 're off to the charming isle of St Lucia where our winner and a friend will enjoy seven nights at the Le Sport Hotel , full board in a private air-conditioned room . |
| 27 | We 're back to the normal agenda , item eight on page thirty-six . |
| 28 | Now they 're back to the good weather again . |
| 29 | Yes we 're back to the inner inner northern routes are n't we ? |
| 30 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |