Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 2 | At the moment you 're cre , you 're cor , , you 're correcting your procedures on the basis of auditing and finding out what we 're not doing instead of really thinking about them . |
| 3 | They are turning their backs on the low paid workers . |
| 4 | A team of Swiss researchers , however , has been focusing its efforts on the self-replication of closed , spherical structures by developing a so-called ‘ autopoietic ’ system . |
| 5 | Essex Rivers Healthcare health promotion unit will be opening its doors on the day and will welcome smokers wanting advice on how to give up the habit . |
| 6 | Ill be sending my comments on the Sunderland Match later — but a revolutionary idea we came up with was velcro shirts … with stick on everything … |
| 7 | In the next issue I shall be giving my findings on the diverse range of cordless power-tools sampled , with a few performance statistics , including a simple drill test . |
| 8 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 9 | Sotheby 's will be pinning their hopes on the decorative arts market which is performing well in Europe and the States and accounted for 56% of business last year compared to 38% in 1990 . |
| 10 | erm I mean , it 's interesting , that 's not the only person that 's said that to me erm one of the youngsters actually said that to me last night erm sort of complaining again along the same sort of lines , and I said ‘ well hang on a minute , you know there are people actually at this moment who are putting their lives on the line and |
| 11 | Analysts , meanwhile , were not impressed at all , and were downgrading their opinions on the company right , left and centre last week , causing the shares to slip . |
| 12 | They had no sooner skidded to a halt , than the crews had the hoses run out and were training their jets on the leaping flames . |
| 13 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 14 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 15 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 16 | I was suddenly very much awake as the Germans sent off another two bombs , The first had exploded some distance away , followed by the two others ; the German mortar team were dropping their bombs on the Commando positions to our rear . |
| 17 | It was now part of their ingrained thinking that the newspaper barons were imposing their standards on the population by rewriting the language of tabloid journalism . |
| 18 | The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously . |
| 19 | Nolan 's method is to put his hands on the bare flesh at the point of the complaint for a minute or two . |
| 20 | Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen . |
| 21 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 22 | He can take no more pleasure from a second initiative that is making its rounds on the Hill . |
| 23 | But now the Honeybourne factory is pinning its hopes on the Goodman HDS 1200 . |
| 24 | Sefton is pinning its hopes on the town 's regeneration through funds from City Challenge . |
| 25 | Cahill is pinning her hopes on the King of Thailand , who regularly pardons long-term prisoners on his birthday . |
| 26 | Like so many others in the art world , he is pinning his hopes on the proposed National Lottery , and his organisation has already submitted a list of historic monuments and sites which need £500 million before the year 2000 . |
| 27 | French software house , Softeam SA , Montigny is putting its products on the American market : Objecteering is a CASE tool that automatically generates C++ applications from the company 's Class Relation object-oriented model . |
| 28 | According to the report , a commission in charge of the negotiations with political parties , chaired by Finance Minister Enoch Ruhigira , was focusing its discussions on the distribution of Cabinet posts , including that of prime minister , between political parties . |
| 29 | I was asked my views on the reshuffle . |
| 30 | He was toasting his feet on the coal fired Aga |