Example sentences of "to [be] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday Mr David Moores , the club 's chairman and a close friend , said : ‘ He is such a fitness fanatic that last year , when he was supposed to be on five days ’ holiday at my house , he was on my front lawn every morning doing exercises ’ . |
| 2 | these were to be on 2,400 hectares in the Black Country , 4,500 hectares on Teesside , a Tyne & Wear Corporation along the River Tyne and one in Trafford Park ( Grt Manchester ) . |
| 3 | A high proportion were repeat visitors who appeared to be on good terms with the reception and service staff . |
| 4 | The phrase conveys a sense of the desired relationship between elderly people and their relatives , especially their children : they want to be on good terms with them , and to have regular contact with them , but they do not want to rely on them too directly . |
| 5 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 6 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
| 7 | This immobility also makes it essential for him to be on good terms with his neighbours , as they are likely to be there , for better or worse , for most of his life . |
| 8 | It was said that Arkhina was among the most influential women of the Kha-Khan 's court , but she was too like her sister-in-law , his father 's wife , for him to be on good terms with her . |
| 9 | In one matter only had she determined to have her own way : she was going to be on good terms with the neighbours for the sake of her sanity . |
| 10 | He seemed to be on good terms with the people behind the bar . |
| 11 | Ulf , the bishop whose capabilities had so little impressed Bishop Ealdred , had disappeared from view and been replaced at Dorchester by a Saxon , Wulfwig , who was known to be on good terms with Leofric of Mercia . |
| 12 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
| 13 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 14 | The accusation of soliciting was avoided , but she did appear to be on friendly terms with rather too many American and Canadian soldiers . |
| 15 | You ought to be on friendly terms . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's nice to be on friendly terms . |
| 17 | But it 's still best to be on friendly terms with your neighbours , is n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | erm There 's always an ambivalence in the relationship between governors and schools in that , in order to have a good relationship with a head , you need to be on friendly terms with him so that the head , or her , so that the head will communicate with the governors . |
| 19 | Households without earnings from employment are also more likely to be on lower incomes . |
| 20 | He quickly came to be on close terms both with Edward himself , in whose Scottish wars he regularly served , and with his heir . |
| 21 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 22 | they 've got to be on separate days |
| 23 | But with Virgin , he complained , the laid-back Sixties seediness and everybody wanting to be on first-name terms , all seemed like a ploy to lull an honest Situationist into a false sense of security . |
| 24 | And she had to confess , much as she hated to , that it felt nice to be on amicable terms with Jake . |
| 25 | The schools market is an area where booksellers and publishers increasingly seem to be on opposing teams , playing on that all too familiar unlevel playing field . |
| 26 | And the focus of the new interest was not to be on those sectors originally envisaged as targets , but on the unlikely and controversial issue of defence . |