Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The initial measures of enforcement had been agreed on by the WEU and NATO in July [ see also pp. 39012-13 ] .
2 The draft constitution , to be voted on in the April referendum , would reduce the legislature to a single , bicameral body ; specify the supremacy of federal law over that of constituent republics ; and retain the President as " head of state and the highest executive in Russia " .
3 This means that the best possible data model can be formulated with the knowledge that it can be mapped on to a DBMS .
4 This development plan is prepared in negotiation with the education and business partnership and must be agreed on by the TPS regional manager .
5 If you do not want to go to the police , ring Sunday Life on Belfast 331133 ext 4316 and your message will be passed on to the McDermotts .
6 At the end of this month , the care of these children will be passed on to the Northampton based charity , World Vision .
7 Presented to the Society by Mr J E Cadwallader from Capetown , South Africa - the last employee to be taken on by the Bishop 's Castle Railway . )
8 For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show .
9 WORK is soon to start on a £5.2m scheme which will prevent raw sewage being pumped on to a Merseyside beach .
10 Earlier this year , the Ince-based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped on to the UK market , making competition virtually impossible .
11 He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna .
12 I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey .
13 This regime makes the settlor of a non-UK resident trust liable to capital gains tax on gains made by the trustees where the settlor has an interest , or is treated as having an interest , in the trust ( the trustees themselves being outside the UK capital gains tax net if a majority of them are neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the UK and the general administration of the trust is carried on outside the UK — see s69 TCGA 1992 ) .
14 This is because investment business is not regulated business unless : ( 1 ) It is carried on from a UK office ; or ( 2 ) Where relevant , it is carried on with or for customers in the UK and is within the FSA 's territorial scope ( see page 39 above ) .
15 ( 2 ) At least one of the merging enterprises is carried on in the United Kingdom or by or under the control of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom .
16 Pindar wrote the first poem of his career ( Pythian x ) for a Thessalian patron in 498 : This opening places Thessaly straight away in the centre of Dorian Greek culture ; the Aleuad dynasty in Thessaly is treated as a branch of the house of Herakles , that is , it is grafted on to the Dorian Peloponnesian tree .
17 However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom .
18 Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites .
19 Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong .
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