Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 2 | In an ideal situation the staff to be trained will be taught externally on an identical system to the one being installed . |
| 3 | However , the responsibility for the resultant problem can not be blamed solely on an overbearing parent ; there is also a marriage partner who is failing to stand firm on biblical priorities at the expense of his or her partner . |
| 4 | A vertical window covering which can be rolled up on a spring-roller attachment , or drawn up by cords threaded through rings . |
| 5 | Prior to the meeting , the IWC 's scientific committee had said that the population of minke whales had now recovered to the point where renewed commercial hunting could be carried out on a sustainable basis . |
| 6 | The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs . |
| 7 | As well as simple copying , assemble editing can be carried out on a stop-start basis under manual control of the machines provided that the VCR has the backspace edit facility . |
| 8 | A covering note would detail tasks which would have to be carried out on a regular basis and which agent is responsible for these tasks . |
| 9 | Insemination can be carried out on a natural heat ; all you need to do is to give your nearest inseminator advance notice and select the semen you require . |
| 10 | The first group of suggestions that follow can all be carried out on a single visit to the shore or group of shores . |
| 11 | If it was , the voting would be carried out on a unanimous basis . |
| 12 | The audit needs to be carried out on a periodic rather than on an ad hoc basis , and , like any other rational evaluation , needs to be conducted in a systematic way . |
| 13 | After some initial hesitation , the Church Commissioners agreed and now the remaining repairs , principally to the stonework , can be carried out on a rolling programme over several years . |
| 14 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the rates were the most unjust form of local taxation , yet under Labour we would have a revaluation that would be carried out on an arbitrary basis such as the market price ; the rebuilding cost ; the maintenance and repair cost ; the private rent value ; the number of windows , the size of the roof , or the view from the property . |
| 15 | Appraisal will ordinarily be carried out on an annual basis . |
| 16 | The haulier should be aware of the circumstances in which he ( or his debtor ) may be wound up on a voluntary basis and the circumstances in which his company ( or his debtor 's ) may be wound up by the court . |
| 17 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 18 | Chloramphenicol was the first antibiotic to be prepared synthetically on a large scale , and no difference has been recognized between the therapeutic properties of material made by microbes and by man . |
| 19 | In the past , when houses were accepted as payment for death duties , the selection of the contents acquired with them tended to be made mainly on a museum-oriented scale of value , concentrating predominantly on items that were not only of high quality , but also usually an integral part of the design of a room . |
| 20 | Cutting can be done automatically on a diamond-impregnated saw with a vacuum chuck , holding up to six slides simultaneously . |
| 21 | The pig would be hung up on a big strong hook and there was much to-ing and fro-ing with kettles of boiling water to help scrape off the bristles and extract the entrails . |
| 22 | It seems sensible to take advantage of the good days in order to make allowance for any excess eating on the difficult days , and dieting calorie intake can be averaged out on a weekly basis . |
| 23 | If preferred , calories can be averaged out on a weekly rather than a daily basis . |
| 24 | The value of each tactic is considered not just for the problem itself , but as an approach that might be used again on a future occasion so that the person can learn how better to cope with future problems ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | South-American countries have shown that viruses can be used successfully on a major scale . |
| 26 | Scooters , tricycles , bicycles and pedal cars can all be used safely on a flat hard surface and there are many chances for one-to-one correspondence . |
| 27 | It has been argued , for example , that laterality should be measured only on a nominal scale ( Colbourn , 1978 ) such that only the direction and not the magnitude of any laterality effect is taken into account . |
| 28 | The first was the introduction of the Apple Macintosh which was the first personal computer to be based entirely on a graphical interface as opposed to the more conventional character-at-a-time systems . |
| 29 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 30 | overheads being recovered on a logical and consistent basis to enable work in progress and profit levels to be assessed accurately on a job-by-job basis . |