Example sentences of "be on [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , the Top Of The Pops we were on included The Alarm and Echo And The Bunnymen . |
| 2 | If you go for second best ( because the pressure is on to fill the job tomorrow , or because you ca n't afford the best ) you will inevitably end up at the bottom of the heap with all the other monkeys . |
| 3 | We 're in a position where we 're going to borrow a bit from next year , that actually puts the pressure on as I see it 's about nine or ten thousand extra this year , the allowance is about a hundred and eighty thousand , the total , erm , we 're adding nine or ten thousand to that , we 're taking it off it for next year , so we 've already got ourselves something like an eighteen to twenty thousand reduction in members allowances next year so the pressure is on to resolve the problem , and er , perhaps Mr might feel that actually that extra pressure might make us resolve it . |
| 4 | Now that the problem has been identified , the race is on to preserve the buildings . |
| 5 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 6 | If you know such a coach then nominate him/her now because the search is on to find the 1993 Coach of the Year . |
| 7 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 8 | Then , on closer inspection , it emerges that there are oddities in this particular instance ( as there are in so many cases ) and the quest is on to identify the survival value of these particular idiosyncrasies . |