Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair has been set on rollers to achieve loose curls . |
| 2 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |
| 3 | The champagne has been put on ice at Stockton . |
| 4 | Neighbourhood Watch A neighbourhood watch has been established on Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue , Mrs. Moug has agreed to inaugurate a scheme in Baberton Crescent and preliminary moves have been made to encourage other parts of the village to participate . |
| 5 | Neighbourhood Watch A neighbourhood watch has been established on Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue , Mrs. Moug has agreed to inaugurate a scheme in Baberton Crescent and preliminary moves have been made to encourage other parts of the village to participate . |
| 6 | A driver has been remanded on bail after three women from the same family were knocked down and killed on their way home from a funeral . |
| 7 | Its A-minus rating has been put on probation , out of fear of ballooning deficits ; it might indeed have met sterner treatment had 1989 not been a mayoral election year . |
| 8 | Civility has been shattered on Golding 's island . |
| 9 | The UK profession has flourished in a free market economy where much reliance has been placed on actuaries ' judgement rather than on constricting regulations . |
| 10 | The ‘ participants ’ will be 30 children for whom assessment has been requested on account of emotional and behavioural difficulties ( EBD ) , together with the professionals involved in each child 's assessment . |
| 11 | The injustice of the ragpickers ' existence has been recorded on video by the ecumenical Media Centre of Bangalore , with the aim of raising public awareness of their plight . |
| 12 | In addition , at least one little owl has been raised on reactor site . |
| 13 | Since February 1991 the contract has been traded on LIFFE 's screen-based APT system after 4.32 pm , when share dealing on the International Stock Exchange ( ISE ) stops . |
| 14 | More ‘ rigour has been imposed on procedures to plan , monitor and control public expenditure . |
| 15 | MINERS at Point of Ayr colliery are angry that a £7.5m investment programme has been put on ice by British Coal . |
| 16 | The Dad 's Music programme has been running on Middlesbrough 's local radio station ever since it started broadcasting in 1970 . |
| 17 | ’ A crime has been committed on Ardakke , most serious and reasonable . |
| 18 | The logical result is that in a month of war more high explosive has been dropped on Iraq than was used in the whole of world war two . |
| 19 | While no systematic research has been done on language use within families in the Bradford Dominican community , Tate considers that her informants , who were Rastafarian members of a band , had competence in JC on a par with natives of Jamaica ( Tate is herself Jamaican-born ) . |
| 20 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 21 | The CDU/CDM coalition had been announced on April 3 by the People 's Party ( one of the minor parties allied to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPCz ) before November 1989 , which had since undergone extensive changes in its leadership and policy ) and two parties formed since the November revolution , the ( Czech ) Christian Democratic Party and the ( Slovak ) CDM . |
| 22 | The new government 's programme had been presented on April 24 . |
| 23 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 24 | But he was concerned to prevent the system becoming a greater burden than ever through malpractice of the sort which the Worcester monk Hemming reports when he says that estates were sometimes taken even when the money due had been paid on time . |
| 25 | The party was effectively opposed by the new MPP ( founded by Barak Sope , Lini 's rival , whose conviction following the 1988 coup attempt had been quashed on appeal — pp. 36397-98 ; 36526 ) , in alliance with the conservative UMP . |
| 26 | The Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency reported that 42 officers who had supported the February coup attempt had been released on April 3 , reportedly on the personal request of Pérez . |
| 27 | At about 2115 on Monday 8 October 1990 George Williamson received a telephone call from James Christie of Burra reporting a radio message that a lobster creel boat had been wrecked on Burwick Holm two miles north west of Scalloway . |
| 28 | The lock had been built on quicksand , and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away . |
| 29 | Mr Ensall admitted there had been delays , but that all mail had been processed on time since March 9 . |
| 30 | Earlier in the dispute , calls for all-out national strike action had been rejected on Jan. 23 by national union leaders . |