Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 18,000 miles of new telegraph and telephone wires have been erected on 30,000 new poles , mainly by the Army . |
| 2 | He wrote ‘ It is generally acknowledged that all organic beings have been formed on two great lines , unity of type and the conditions of existence . |
| 3 | He had evidently been in fear of his life and purchased the weapon for that reason , since he had already been attacked on two previous occasions . |
| 4 | They are founded on three over-lapping grounds : usually , economic and philosophic ; more rarely , biological . |
| 5 | Companies are assessed on twenty key areas covering Advanced Quality Planning , Engineering Change Control and the use of SPC , through Sub-supplier Control , Written Procedures and Instruction Sheets to Customer Concerns , Scrap and Rework , Packaging and Housekeeping . |
| 6 | Instead , they are based on one vital surface protein — the hepatitis B surface agglutinin ( HbsAg ) — taken either from the blood of carriers of the virus , or from bacteria genetically engineered to produce it . |
| 7 | Also some supplements are based on one particular nutrient such as Vitamins A , D and E. |
| 8 | Their conclusions are based on two cradle-to-grave studies conducted in Germany and financed by the company . |
| 9 | This procedure has attracted more opposition , both from religious authorities , who regard it as in some ways similar to adultery , and from sociologists , whose misgivings are based on two main reasons . |
| 10 | The results presented in " this chapter are based on 624 completed student questionnaires returned to IMS by the organisers of 55 Advanced Courses . |
| 11 | Oil equivalent figures referred to in this document are based on 6,000 cubic feet of gas equalling one barrel of oil equivalent . |
| 12 | Our three pictures marked A , B and C show scenes from three popular TV soaps which are based on three public services . |
| 13 | Gotti had been prosecuted on three previous occasions — while the current trial was in progress the foreman of the jury in the 1987 trial was indicted for conspiring with Gotti to return a not guilty verdict in exchange for $60,000 — and had been acquitted each time . |
| 14 | To date £6.7 million has been spent on two incomplete ferry terminals at Gills Bay and Burwick . |
| 15 | We have been able to maintain parity within the ERM , interest rates have been reduced on eight successive occasions and we now have one of the lowest , if not the lowest , monthly inflation rates in the Community . |
| 16 | Over three hundred individuals give their time freely to support the R Y A where they are experienced on one central committee or another . |
| 17 | It is in this context relevant to mention briefly section 9 of the General Rate Act 1967 which provided that an amount paid in respect of rates ‘ and not recoverable apart from this section ’ could properly be refunded on five specified grounds , some of which would fall within the Woolwich principle . |
| 18 | The money £200,000 more than Darlington usually receives is to be used on three major improvement schemes alongside the main East Coast railway line . |
| 19 | It also recommended that new entrants to the industry should be encouraged to attend short induction courses providing practically oriented instruction and information on opportunities in industry ; and that craft education should be founded on two interrelated phases , normally completed within two or three years depending on whether or not full-time study is included , leading to a national craft qualification . |
| 20 | It will be based on fifty in-depth life story interviews with a random sample taken from the British Household Panel Study , which would enable the possibility of a later follow-up study of the same interviewees at or after retirement . |
| 21 | Such a society would be based on two extreme cultures and supported by highly divergent ideologies — the elite society valuing work and , presumably , awarding themselves status and power as compensation for their efforts , and the underclass valuing leisure and , accordingly , not accepting as legitimate the rewards the elite class have given themselves . |
| 22 | The first results will be based on six key performance indicators , including waiting times , numbers of cancelled operations and ambulance response rates . |
| 23 | Finally , practitioners identified the need for management practices in their own agencies in relation to the development of assessment and care management systems , to be based on three key principles which are essential to the development of better practice . |
| 24 | Therefore , the pattern stitches and the background stitches have to be knitted on two separate rows . |
| 25 | The report concludes that , in addition to making health services more equitable , policy needs to be focused on five broad areas : the distribution of economic resources ; education ; living conditions ; access to and conditions of work ; and the provision of social support . |
| 26 | Be that as it may , she eventually worked her way through to a most impressive and distinctive personal singing style ; the various stages of this development can be observed on two excellent LPs : Princess of the Thistle ( 1969 ) , which has useful and perceptive notes by Peter Hall , and What a Voice ( 1985 ) , with sensitive notes by Stephanie Smith-Perrin . |
| 27 | To summarise , the ‘ absolute income ’ hypothesis may be criticised on two major grounds : ( a ) for not providing an adequate explanation of the different sets of income-consumption data ; ( b ) for not taking into account the influence of wealth and the rate of interest on consumption , and so for not being consistent with the microeconomic analysis of consumer behaviour . |
| 28 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 29 | In the previous week Jewish graves in three cemeteries in Stockholm had been desecrated on three successive nights . |
| 30 | All chemotherapeutic drugs were given on four consecutive days at four week intervals for a total of six months or until there was evidence of tumour progression . |