Example sentences of "be [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 2 | At the time of this Report , knitters ' order intake volumes for Autumn 1993 are down on the previous year , in part as retailers delay ordering and in part reflecting recessionary conditions in key export markets in Europe and Japan . |
| 3 | Erm investment banking and fine china in the market circumstances er performed well , erm although they 're down on the previous year . |
| 4 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 5 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 6 | We 've , I do n't know if everyone 's worked the same system , but we 're back on the old appointment system . |
| 7 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 8 | As it happens it would seem that most of those children are out on an English trip . |
| 9 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 10 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 11 | PIETER MULLER from South Africa — mentioned in those pages by John Robbie as one of the future ‘ hopes ’ when the Springboks are back on the international scene — is starring in the centre for GREYSTONES , Robbie 's former Irish club , in the AIL second division . |
| 12 | to rugby next the cherry and whites are back on the winning trail … they beat Pontypool at the weekend in a real rough and tumble of a game … |
| 13 | Oxford United are back on the winning trail but Hereford are still chasing success … they both played last night … |
| 14 | Gloucester are back on the winning trail … against all the odds … they beat Northampton on Saturday … 19-14 was the score … here 's the action |
| 15 | But for no more than half-a-dozen months — and then they are back on the high seas again , pursuing their trade . |
| 16 | The boat moved restlessly beneath them , as if impatient to be out on the open sea . |
| 17 | Design : Crossed lines over the toytown tram : City transport could soon be back on the right track , says Jonathan Glancey |
| 18 | If Woosnam has his way , Mouland will be back on the winning trail tomorrow with the former World No 1 convinced he can tear the La Morajela course apart at the weekend . |
| 19 | By then they need to be back on the winning trail which hopefully will start on Saturday against Moseley . |
| 20 | He never sold his day 's OTC quota , and so his leader would shout : " You 'll soon be back on the fucking training floor . " |
| 21 | For years afterwards I only had to hear it played and in my mind I would be back on the muddy camp site , feeling again the excitement and fun and tragedy which filled the air . |
| 22 | But then it is believed Diana and her children will be back on the huge Althorp Estate . |
| 23 | ‘ I always seem to do my best when the big players are around on the big occasion , not at smaller tournaments like these . ’ |
| 24 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 25 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 26 | In particular , the Home-Grown Cereals Authority reports exports of wheat 30 per cent were down on the previous harvest — mostly due to dearer prices . |
| 27 | The sharply lower rhodium price depressed revenues in the chemicals and refining business and profits for the year were down on the previous period . |
| 28 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 29 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 30 | Soon Jacob and I were out on the lonely , snow-covered hills . |