Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | To attract international investment , the Cook Islands have recently obtained permission from the Hong Kong stock exchange to allow offshore companies incorporated there to be listed on the exchange in Hong Kong . |
| 2 | The interviews could be completed on the doorstep in as little as 10 minutes , but most lasted between 15 and 45 minutes and more often than not the fieldworker was invited into the house , offered tea and biscuits — and on one occasion two meat pies ! |
| 3 | We will therefore examine how bounds can be placed on the change in objective function value when a variable is chosen for branching . |
| 4 | No restriction would be placed on the amount in lei being taken out of the country for visits to other COMECON countries . |
| 5 | In this case the essential starter can be placed on the shelf in the back of the hood ( as can the airpump if it 's small enough ) . |
| 6 | Can you seriously expect , for example , to ruffle a colleague 's hair and not be patted on the backside in return ? |
| 7 | The detailed study waits to be written on the way in which developments in the law of certiorati affected the law on natural justice . |
| 8 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 9 | The Barnardiston vaults at Kedington , Suffolk , have a number of anthropoid coffins with appliqué shield depositum plates ; two incised shields cut from anthropoid coffins of 1671 and 1676 , together with most of the lid of Dame Ann Combe 's 1658 lead shell with incised lettering — and four very high-quality cast armorials from the same coffin — can be seen on the walls in St Mary 's Church , Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire . |
| 10 | If this is the case , you may be taxed on the income in your new residence — and not in the UK . |
| 11 | Tough strong ceramics can be collected on the sea-shore in the form of shells . |
| 12 | In future , however , energy matters would be kept under review by a new advisory panel of independent experts which would suggest how information should be interpreted on the way in which markets were developing and studies that should be carried out , similar to ones which were commissioned for the coal review . |
| 13 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 14 | A period of under-provision over a number of years is likely to be reflected on the shelves in subject gaps or in the poor physical condition of stock . |
| 15 | It can be smoked on the premises in cigarettes or by means of a water pipe or it can be peddled on the streets at a price of about £25 for a quarter of a gram . |
| 16 | After that , assuming Hess survived whatever form his landing took , he would no doubt be apprehended on the ground in the normal manner of crashed enemy aircrew : there were plenty of Army units in the area . |
| 17 | Rena M. , an active union member , nevertheless asked to be replaced on the committee in 1929 because of her mother 's illness . |
| 18 | It will be introduced on the airwaves in the next couple of weeks . |
| 19 | I do not believe there is any absolute virtue in such openness , in fact , I think that education is ideally carried on in a shared form of life where there is agreement about fundamentals and attention can be concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 20 | An extreme form of this alternative view is to argue that an economy such as the UK 's has no national cohesion at all and our attention should therefore be focused on the way in which supranational world economic forces affect us . |
| 21 | The United Kingdom 's full attention should be focused on the problems in Guatemala City . |
| 22 | Thinking that the heart of the mystery might be found on the Brocken in the Harz mountains , he journeyed there in May 1799 . |
| 23 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 24 | Pieces can be put on the board in any order , so one position can arise via several sequences of operators . |
| 25 | One understands why information should be put on the computer in the first place . |
| 26 | ANTE-POST favourite Turgenev could be left on the sidelines in Wednesday 's Tote Ebor at York . |
| 27 | The first two systems will be tested on the ground in two or three years , while Talon Gold will be tested from the space shuttle at about the same time . |