Example sentences of "be [conj] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leopards are after all quite as at home in the treetops as they are and on occasion are partial to monkey . |
| 2 | Indeed , it may be that on occasion physical ill-treatment is a consequence of the tension this sort of situation produces . |
| 3 | Yet where else could he be but on deck ? |
| 4 | An additional difficulty is that on occasion the layout does not help . |
| 5 | A common feeling among Tory MPs is that on matters such as the resurrection of Christ , on which the Bishops should be certain , they are full of doubt ; but on matters such as the precise level of the public sector borrowing requirement , they are vociferous in their certainty . |
| 6 | My hope is that on May 19 , when the full Board vote , they will go instead for eight four-day games , the remainder to be played over three days on uncovered pitches and run-ups , thus restoring life to pitches , variety to bowling attacks and a priceless education to batsmen . |
| 7 | An example is that on leukaemias , managed by the Leukaemia Research Fund Centre in Leeds ( Alexander et al. 1989 ) . |
| 8 | What is more disturbing if we wish to achieve a simple separation of grammar and semantics is that on occasions one and the same deviance may be cured either by adjustment of closed set items , or by the replacement of open set items . |
| 9 | What has happened is that on conversion they have had a host of non-Christian friends . |
| 10 | The burden of many studies , subject to such qualifications , is that on balance political factors like party or ideology or electoral competitiveness do not matter much , compared to a country 's level of economic development . |
| 11 | But at the end of the day er my view is that on balance there is a case for this application to go forward . |
| 12 | Not Wright — he 's happy with it at his feet wherever he is and on top of that he has a quite phenomenal strike-rate . |
| 13 | Thus it was that on Monday 6 March the summit took place at Brigham Young University involving administrators and scientists from the two universities . |
| 14 | A criticism made by those in both parties who were opposed to the appointment was that on Mr Harold Macmillan 's prompting the Queen had allowed herself to be urged prematurely into a decision without having at her disposal all the available evidence about feeling in the Conservative Party . |
| 15 | Thus it was that on Friday , 17 March the university press officer interviewed Fleischmann and Pons , who were even then in the process of revising their preliminary note , and the office had a press release ready by the Monday morning . |
| 16 | The question for the court was whether on July 9 , 1921 , the police authorities acting , reasonably and in good faith , considered a police garrison at the colliery necessary for the protection of life and property from violence , or , in other words , whether the decision of the chief constable in refusing special protection unless paid for was such a decision as a man in his position and with his duties could reasonably take . |
| 17 | At Christmas we went around houses singing carols but the best thing of all was when on Christmas eve we went to the local old peoples home to sing carols . |