Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun pl] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further comparison is made between pensioners ' clubs which are organised by volunteers on behalf of charitable bodies and those which are run by old people for themselves . |
| 2 | We will provide technical help to develop methods of resource accounting and environmental protection and ensure that measures of sustainability are incorporated in decisions on development projects and programmes . |
| 3 | More than 870,000 people are living in families on income support in Scotland . |
| 4 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 5 | Considering we 're paying for personnel on top of it and , and all the other things like telephones and accommodation . |
| 6 | THE golden moment millions of TV viewers have been waiting for goes on air tonight . |
| 7 | These encompass information on surface fractures obtained by remote-sensing satellites : details of rocks perhaps 2 km beneath the surface obtained by drilling bore holes ; and anomalies in the Earth 's magnetic field and gravitational force that are measured in instruments on board aeroplanes . |
| 8 | The deal , understood to have been agreed in talks on Nov. 5 , offered a political solution after 19 years of guerrilla violence in the south-east of the country , which was inhabited by tribal people ( mainly practising the Buddhist , Christian or Hindu religions ) . |
| 9 | Its contents are classified into chapters on spelling and pronunciation , locative names ( from English , French and other continental languages ) , surnames of relationship , those from native and other personal names , from offices held or occupations followed , compound names and nicknames of all kinds , oaths , colloquial expressions and phrases which have given rise to family names . |
| 10 | Alcove shelves at either side of the marble fireplace are crammed with books on art and design , cookery and Jon 's great love — cricket . |
| 11 | It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also . |
| 12 | There had been widespread fears of police violence , and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday . |
| 13 | In this day and age when we are bombarded with books on climbing , it is strange to relate that there is no modern comprehensive history of mountaineering . |
| 14 | The Agence France-Presse news agency reported on June 7 that a professor and several students at Beijing University had been arrested following incidents on campus . |
| 15 | The new booklets complement those already available on assessments ( regulation 6 ) , health surveillance ( regulation 11 ) , setting in-house occupational exposure limits ( regulation 7 ) , and information , instruction and training ( regulation 12 ) and will be joined by booklets on COSHH and product distribution , contractors and occupational exposure limits for mixtures , during the first quarter of this year . |
| 16 | Mr Chree is proposing that the route be safeguarded from any further developments and that access arrangements be made with landowners on sections of the route where it is not possible to assert the ancient highway as a public right of way . |
| 17 | Member firms hold stock in accounts with the CGO and same-day transfers can be made between accounts on receipt of instructions via computer terminals . |
| 18 | This year management will also be looking for concessions on working practices . |
| 19 | He had drawn his sword and held it , not yet in challenge aloft , but where the naked blade could just be seen by men on horse-back . |
| 20 | In the future people will be selected for posts on merit , regardless of gender or race . |
| 21 | Public transport in London was seriously disrupted when train and underground stations had to be closed after explosions on Dec. 16 and 23 . |
| 22 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
| 23 | But a decision whether nitrate contamination of water is to be reduced by curbs on land use or by treatment with untried technology is being held up by a conflict in Whitehall on whether farmers should be compensated for income losses resulting from land use controls ’ . |
| 24 | This meant many of the staff could be travelling for days on end , racing against deadlines , and , just when they were at their most exhausted , might receive a summons to fly to France the next day , which usually meant leaving at 5.30 am . |
| 25 | The collective experience of twelve arbitrarily chosen people is assumed to provide a degree of familiarity with popular reading trends , with what is deemed acceptable on television and at cinemas , and with the degree of explicitness which can be found in publications on sale at local newsagents . |
| 26 | Details of such topics can be found in books on computer hardware design such as Hill and Peterson ( 1973 ) , Hellerman ( 1973 ) , or Townsend ( 1975 ) . |
| 27 | The subject of this chapter is not usually to be found in books on polymers . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes they 'll be gone for days on end , ’ Stanley said , warming to his theme . |
| 29 | These heroic bouts of campaigning would be followed by discussions on aspects of international politics which would last well into the early hours . |
| 30 | Both points can be illustrated by studies on frogs . |