Example sentences of "[be] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the onus will be on employers to ensure their offices comply with the Display Screen Regulations . |
| 2 | ‘ The emphasis in working-class families will be on sons and daughters getting a career , ’ added Paul Davies , ‘ and that means courses like English will be left to students from middle-class families . ’ |
| 3 | The high level of crime and the resultant number of people in prison are due directly to the policies of the Government , which have created people who are greedy and selfish , a society where people are supposed to be on their own , a society which destroys the morale and the will of people who happen to be on benefits and on the poverty line . |
| 4 | So , interceptions/corrections will always be on headings which are the desired Track plus/minus the angle which you decide to use . |
| 5 | In the next section , however , the emphasis will be on qualities of the object which language can not share . |
| 6 | Anne Pennick in an essay on the tunnels of Glastonbury claims that larger tunnels follow ley lines ( originally straight alignments of assorted ancient historic sites , now credited to be on lines of mystic energy ) , and that they reflect the ‘ mystery and sanctity attaching to places of paramount geomantic importance in the topographical interrelation of religious sites ’ . |
| 7 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 8 | But for whole class playback sessions the general focus should be on things which affect everyone in the group . |
| 9 | The focus of the nine business units will be on services and software and includes such areas as office automation , personal computers and networking systems . |
| 10 | For competition to be fair and meaningful , either everybody has to be drug-free , or everybody has to be on drugs — which do we want ? |
| 11 | I could be on drugs , I could be a monk . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , the burden of proof will be on reformists to show that their policies offer the best chance of avoiding internal instability . |
| 13 | They will want to be on committees and subcommittees where they can advance the interests of both their sponsors — those who have contributed to the costs of their , usually expensive , election campaigns and , it is hoped , will contribute to those of the next as well — and their constituents ; to some extent , these will be the same . |
| 14 | The hottest programme now is said to be on missiles that would destroy their targets within the atmosphere but without using a nuclear warhead . |
| 15 | Next time you are stuck in a traffic jam , you might reflect that if facilities were better , some of those motorists would be on bicycles . |
| 16 | Such approaches have always seen the complexity of design activity with its range of apparently contradictory impulses and antitheses ; is the emphasis to be on questions of form or of function or on solving technical or aesthetic desires and needs ? |
| 17 | … until subject matter theories with different epistemological characteristics have been formulated , the focus of our spatial planning must continue to be on supermarkets , roads and airports , and not on the needs and desires of those individual human beings that the facilities allegedly are constructed to serve . |
| 18 | On Wednesdays Karen will be at Suffolk College , Ipswich with a beginners ' class and the full day course , again on the ribber , is to be on Fridays at Thorpe High School , Clacton . |
| 19 | The reason , quite simply , is that architects find work where the market for their skill is most lucrative , and in Britain that tends to be on sites where intensive development has taken place for generations , particularly the commercial centres and inner suburbs of big cities . |
| 20 | He wo n't enjoy it , and you 'll be on pins waiting for him to show everyone just how much he hates it . |
| 21 | The next issue will be on fireplaces . |
| 22 | In Hungary the roads improved and from Vienna they would be on motorways all the way to the Channel . |
| 23 | The current year 's plans involve expenditure within the group of £70million , excluding acquisitions of which £43million will be on hotels and £6million on care homes . |
| 24 | The concert is by the Ted Heath Band and it 's a gala concert at the Royal Centre in Nottingham on Friday November the twelfth because in attendance will be Mrs Moira Heath , Ted 's widow er Jack Parnell will be on drums , Kenny Baker on trumpet and one of the country 's great song stylists will be the guest singer . |
| 25 | Since 16 July 1992 ( Royal Assent of the 1992 Finance ( No 2 ) Act ) , such enquiry time has included Customs making internal enquiries ; previously , however , the time had to be on enquiries with the trader , rather than on internal enquiries , following the High Court decision in L Rowland and Co ( Retail ) Ltd ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1992 , p 108 ) . |
| 26 | Yeah I know , do n't you think it 's out of order right that we er that we erm cos he said it 's only gon na be on Thursdays right and sometimes Tuesdays and it 's every fucking week . |
| 27 | The emphasis should be on objectives , programmes and programme elements , all stated in output terms . |
| 28 | He could not possibly be on steroids : he is too damn skinny . |
| 29 | If the S.M.O. was right , which he was bound to be , being a very experienced physician , then the crisis would come any time from the day after tomorrow — when I would be on nights ' off . |
| 30 | He 'll be on tenterhooks the whole time , and muttering to the parents things like : ‘ A true eccentric , our Mr McWhirter , but a very fine scholar in his field . ’ ’ |