Sentence examples for be on rather from inspiring English sources

According to one judge, an FBI agent made a basic paperwork error by filling out the form the opposite way from the instructions — ticking the lists she thought Ibrahim should not be on rather than the ones that she should.

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"He was a bit of a reactionary in that he viewed the mathematical foundations of continuum mechanics to be on rather shaky ground, and he set about to put this right," said Jerrold E. Marsden, a professor in the department of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology.

Arrange with your vet to have a quiet room, and bring a blanket or his dog bed for your pet to be on, rather than the cold exam room table.

But in the long view, Mr. Ferneyhough is on rather solid ground.

But the SNP is on rather weak ground here.

It's on rather flagrant display.

Both characters have been on rather lonely journeys the past season or so, trapped in bad marriages.

They are on-ear, rather than over-ear headphones.

That's partly because mobile phones' screens are glued on rather than screwed on.

Rather, it was "on deep background".