Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These materials are predominantly based on siloxy methacrylates , which contain branched dimethyl siloxane substituents on a methacrylate stem . |
| 2 | Pleistocene fossils ascribed to N. lapillus are widely distributed on both sides of the Atlantic , as far south as the Canary Islands ( Talavera , Kardas and Richards , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Lack of breakage , however , only characterizes some of the owl assemblages , but there has been little published on this subject . |
| 4 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 5 | In that case the discretionary power to refund payment of rates for which the person who made the payment was not liable had been expressly conferred on local authorities by Parliament . |
| 6 | Thus wars result from authoritarian government , while the peaceful conduct of foreign affairs is a function of liberal democracy — for if the people are properly informed on foreign-policy issues they will choose peace over war . |
| 7 | In Britain , working-class women are badly represented on full-time university psychology courses . |
| 8 | Entire crypts are rarely displayed on single sections . |
| 9 | They are rarely found on inland waters , although , since it is established that some of our winter visitors migrate over the interior of the county , such records are likely from time to time . |
| 10 | Here , his prodigious talent and sensitivity have produced a stunning masterpiece which interprets every note as it was written , yet adds a freshness and vitality that are rarely captured on recorded works . |
| 11 | TNPs are analytically distinguished on three levels , economic , political and cultural-ideological , what I take to constitute the sociological totality . |
| 12 | In other parts of this small tomb he paints reclining banqueters , such as are constantly found on Etruscan tomb-walls and Greek vases , following the old conventions , though he puts much more variety into the expressive faces than is found anywhere else . |
| 13 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |
| 14 | The Henley Research Centre carries out in-depth investigations which are highly focused on organisational issues and are based on joint programmes working to agreed targets . |
| 15 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 16 | The figures are better grouped on this version and the bull-woman is more in proportion . |
| 17 | Old people might be denied surgery on the grounds that the available resources are better spent on younger people . |
| 18 | I 'm still not too happy with the quality of the frets , although both frets and fingerboard are better finished on this guitar . |
| 19 | ( In fact , the corporation had been wrongly reported on this score and had issued no such edict at all . ) |
| 20 | All in all , he had been departmentally punished on twenty-seven occasions , an average of once for each year he had spent in the force . |
| 21 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
| 22 | The peaks of these complexes are successively located on one side of the baseline and then on the other , and this positive then negative polarity in the frontal plane of the ECG creates the typical twisting-about-a-point appearance ( fig 1 ) . |
| 23 | Limits are normally imposed on organic pollution and solids per unit of volume and often on ammonia , while industrial discharges frequently have an acidity or alkalinity ( pH ) parameter . |
| 24 | These receptors are normally located on modified portions of the endoplasmic reticulum ( ER ) . |
| 25 | Scalloped headings are normally used on short café curtains and are hung below a narrow rod from rings . |
| 26 | The hard , hydrogenated margarines do not carry the health benefits of polyunsaturated margarines , and are best avoided on this diet programme . |
| 27 | In general terms , tax has been largely abolished on most life-time gifts , provided certain important conditions are met . |
| 28 | Of course , conditional offers from universities and colleges are generally made on predicted results . |
| 29 | The integration effort has been aided by the the fact that the majority of C&W 's large data networks are already based on Northern Telecom switches anyway . |
| 30 | And although Europe might like to work with Russia ( the two are already co-operating on other space projects ) , Japan would probably not . |