Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that may not be the best way to have structured it , but some of the checks that we 're imposing at the moment are not necessary to put on paper . |
| 2 | However , small businesses also need to forecast and they are more likely to rely on judgement alone . |
| 3 | The main reason why the US market is so much more competitive appears to be tradition : American consumers are accustomed to hunting out bargains and buying on price , whereas Europeans are more likely to buy on brand name . |
| 4 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 5 | Feminist psychologists are often reluctant to call on psychoanalysis . |
| 6 | Cells in the second meiotic division ( MII ) are often difficult to analyse on account of the twisting and overlapping of chromatid arms , but when well spread , they can , and have , been used to assess aneuploidies arising from a segregational error at the first meiotic division ( 1,2 ) . |
| 7 | If the new version of events is what they are now prepared to say on oath , you must accept it and reassess your case in the light of that knowledge . |
| 8 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 9 | The Central board has recommended acceptance of the offer and says the resulting group will be better able to compete on world markets . |
| 10 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 11 | If the company feels that it can largely pass changes in input prices on , it will be more appropriate to focus on productivity changes than on absolute cost changes . |
| 12 | Whilst teachers seemed to be fairly happy to comment on provision for equal opportunities , some heads of department had misgivings about commenting on provision for multicultural education . |
| 13 | The downy chicks of terns and gulls are so patterned that they are almost invisible crouching on shingle . |
| 14 | Low capitalisation tended to be a factor in stifling competition , as firms were not willing to compete on price terms if they did not have the capital backing . |
| 15 | Before the advent of MRI intramedullary tumours were often difficult to detect on myelography , particularly infiltrating lesions with only minimal expansion of the cord . |
| 16 | It has a distinctive texture which becomes stringy when cooked and is most famous served on top of pizzas or lasagne . |
| 17 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 18 | But it is not wise to rely on fairy godmothers reappearing . |
| 19 | It is always advisable to check on marketability as it can be tight for some smaller issues . |
| 20 | Quite apart from nearly a hundred years of intensive research having failed to demonstrate such a cause of functional psychosis , there is another important reason why it is totally inappropriate to draw on analogy with the neurological diseases proper . |
| 21 | Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know . |
| 22 | After years of waiting , building work is now due to start on Stream Bank Cottage . |
| 23 | It is now possible to get on CD-ROM everything from the Yellow Pages to a civil engineering database . |
| 24 | A further cut in base rates to 6% is now likely to stay on ice till next year . |
| 25 | This is particularly liable to occur on shift handovers . |
| 26 | In a preface to one of my favourite sketches , ‘ First Flight ’ , Joyce wrote : ‘ Goodness is almost impossible to show on stage . |
| 27 | It is almost ready to go on sale . |
| 28 | The computer program will dominate at such times and promote considerable activity ; the teacher is then free to concentrate on management and coaching activities , and a discussion of tactics . |
| 29 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 30 | Their menu is authentically Italian based on pizza and pasta dishes and all main course dishes are homemade at each unit . |