Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , a few detectors are designed to run on the 1.5 volt C cells such as the Garrett Grand Master and the White 's Eagle Spectrum .
2 Union members are expected to vote on the new rules in the near future .
3 John Barry and Tim White and Professor Gordon Dunlop ) with whom the successful applicants are expected to interact on a daily basis .
4 Teacher Researcher groups are expected to meet on a regular basis .
5 In the final week , however , Waverley and Eildon are expected to appear on the same platform at public meetings .
6 His zeal has been said to border on the autocratic , especially on the sets of his films .
7 For earlier social reformers , human progress or decline had been seen to depend on the constant interplay of the individual 's moral faculties and the state of the environment .
8 The countdown to Gloucester Rugby Club 's semi-final got off to a flying start to day with the news that forward , Mike Teague , has been selected to go on the British Lions seven week tour of Australia this summer .
9 The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend .
10 Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes .
11 Nor , indeed am I claiming that all black sportsmen , at some stage in their development , come face to face with their blackness and are made to reflect on the probable disadvantages it carries with it .
12 But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand .
13 But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand .
14 But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand .
15 It 's got ta go on a steel pallet and yet next door in the export chiller they 're allowed to go on a wooden pallet and we work on wooden pallets erm
16 He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’
17 He read out loud , ‘ Mr Clem Bunker , regional officer of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers , has been invited to serve on the social affair 's directorate of the European Commission .
18 The Africanists , whose ideological sympathies lie with the PAC , decided not to attend , asserting they had not been invited to serve on the convening committee .
19 I have been invited to comment on the enclosed document .
20 The band , who recently left the Rough Trade label despite having signed what was rumoured to be the indie label 's largest deal since The Smiths , are set to sign on the dotted line with Chrysalis within the next two weeks .
21 If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work .
22 As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century .
23 Advanced Micro says a number of its personnel will be assigned to work on a full-time basis at Hewlett-Packard 's Deer Creek Research and Development Facility in Palo Alto , California over the next two years , although some tasks associated with the project will be handled at Advanced Micro 's Submicron Development Centre in Sunnyvale .
24 In accordance with paragraph 14 of the [ draft ] FRS , the term of convertible debt with a premium put option should be considered to end on the earliest date at which the holder has the option to require redemption .
25 The winner will automatically be booked to appear on a paid basis at a later Gong Show and as a support to one of the visiting star acts .
26 If in that situation some consumers might reasonably be expected to rely on the misleading information , the trader commits an offence unless he has taken all reasonable steps to prevent them from doing so .
27 Certainly some would question whether , in the present academic climate , Catholic schools can realistically be expected to concentrate on the personal , social and spiritual development of their pupils .
28 In Campbell and Palmer v Crest Homes ( Wessex ) Ltd ( 1989 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 13 November , the plaintiff vendors agreed to sell some development land to the defendant purchasers at the price the property might reasonably be expected to fetch on the open market at the relevant date on a sale by a willing vendor to a willing purchaser ; if the parties failed to agree the price within four weeks they were to refer to an independent surveyor to determine the price .
29 Erm , Mr explained the reason for changing this but basically it 's to , to swap us again and that it will read that for one , that for ninety four to ninety eight the standard of grass cutting be seven occasions per year and the county surveyor in consultation with the Chairman be authorized to accept tenders from suitable contractors and the contracts be let to commence on the first of March nineteen ninety four .
30 J j just agree with client he might , might be prepared to accept on a quarterly basis
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