Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [is] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our language can never be entirely value free but when you speak or write you need to think carefully of the effect it is having on others . |
| 2 | The regrading of every qualified nurse in post has of course proved to be a colossal and traumatic exercise for both management ( acting under Department of Health directives ) and the nursing unions whose job it is to mediate on behalf of members . |
| 3 | AGE Logic Inc 's Xoftware , is to support DEC Pathworks TCP/IP version 1.1 : running on Microsft Windows and MS-DOS it is implemented on Santa Cruz Operation 's Open Desktop and SunSoft 's Interactive Unix . |
| 4 | The new Air Quality Management Plan is the most comprehensive of its kind : not perhaps in its approach to tree conservation — the paper it is written on stacks three feet high — but in its determination to force producers and consumers to stop passing on their muck by law . |
| 5 | The environmental panic is heaven for the high priests of advertising whose function it is to capitalize on fears and desires . |
| 6 | Intended for middle managers with at least two years ' relevant experience it is based on distance learning course and assessment materials which can be integrated with the individual 's work-place activities , thereby minimising career disruptions and maximising the benefits to employee and employer alike . |
| 7 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 8 | The T64000 triple Raman spectrometer , manufactured by Jobin Yvon , is now available from Instruments S. A. It is based on triple 0.64 metre focal length spectrometers and gives outstanding stray light rejection even for close-in work with multichannel detectors . |
| 9 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 10 | Throughout the southern and western parts of India the live snake itself is also the object of veneration , and at a multitude of Cobra shrines and in temples it is fed on milk , sweetmeats , sugar , etc. , nurtured and worshipped as being the bodily vehicle of that higher cosmic power or spirit which is to be approached with reverence and honoured . |