Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A famous example of the importance of checking whether the so-called facts are right occurred on the occasion of Charles II founding the Royal Society in 1660 . |
| 2 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it should again be stressed that decisions about weeding programmes and/or new building programmes are rarely made on the basis of such calculations . |
| 4 | Appointments are rarely made on the basis of professional or technical competence alone . |
| 5 | The schemes are locally run on a franchise basis , by voluntary organizations , schools or employers , and the hope is that in the first phase , up to 1993 , 10,000 people aged between sixteen and twenty-four — immediately dubbed ‘ Charlie 's Army ’ by the press — will join full- or part-time programmes of about twelve weeks . |
| 6 | And of course the peoples of the world are intensely divided on the issue . |
| 7 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 8 | The courses are obviously based on a training model , and all colleges running such courses should evaluate longitudinally whether participants do in fact secure subsequent employment or further education and training . |
| 9 | Parishioners of Saint John the Baptist are so divided on the issue that the dispute is having to be resolved at a church court . |
| 10 | It is important to bear in mind the fundamental rule of agency law , that the acts of an agent are only binding on the principal if the agent had actual or apparent authority to perform those acts . |
| 11 | Where that popular base does not exist such laws are only imposed on the population with great difficulty , if at all . |
| 12 | Below , tag lines to the standard Harken genoa cars are normally handled on a cockpit winch , but they can be replaced by tackles if desired . |
| 13 | The prices given are a guide line for the reader and are normally based on the cost of one person sharing a double or twin bedded room with breakfast included ( a single guest should expect to pay more ) . |
| 14 | Some foods which are normally eaten on a plate , such as scrambled eggs , are best eaten from a cup or bowl and spooned up . |
| 15 | But the dances are normally performed on a comb in the hive where they hang vertically . |
| 16 | So what has been suggested is that er we examine the possibility of centralising the second line facilities that are normally provided on every base and only do that at perhaps two bases . |
| 17 | They are normally found on the plant , exposed as with caterpillars , or concealed , like sawfly and tortrix larvae . |
| 18 | It is possible to analyse possible interactions between the syntactic cue and description type also , but these are best understood on the basis of the data . |
| 19 | The very small ones , however , such as hempseed , are best fished on the hair-rig , i.e. with several grains of hemp superglued to the hair . |
| 20 | These are largely based on the idea that the correlation of changes in spot and futures prices with interest rates differs between commodities , and so the importance of marking to the market will also differ . |
| 21 | Sometimes the relationship is obvious , as in Alban Berg 's Lyric Suite , where the number of beats and bars , even metronome indications , are largely based on the number 23 and its multiples . |
| 22 | Modernization theories of the global system are largely based on the distinction between the traditional and the modern . |
| 23 | Although conservation matters are generally assigned on an area basis , many councils now have their own conservation officers . |
| 24 | The fees of consulting engineers from outside , not to mention consulting environmentalists such as landscape architects , are generally based on a percentage of the total construction contract . |
| 25 | They are generally based on the belief in health as the result of a harmonious whole . |
| 26 | LABELS — These carry valuable performance data based on laboratory testing and are generally found on the back of the carpet samples . |
| 27 | Bonds are generally traded on the basis of their prices , but because of the complicated patterns of cash flows that different bonds can have , they are usually not compared in terms of prices ; instead , they are generally compared in terms of yields . |
| 28 | The need on the part of performance scoring models for ready access to detailed transaction and account balance trend data required for such a marketing strategy are already stored on the database , even if off-line , and in a form that makes them sufficiently easy to retrieve . |
| 29 | The students , who are already represented on the village 's crime prevention panel , are involved with the formation of a junior crime prevention panel . |
| 30 | We can not park at the weekend and people are already parking on the grass verge . ’ |