Example sentences of "they are [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence these are stand-alone management procedures except they are printed on pink paper . |
| 2 | They are trained on all aspects of aerobics from the beginners ' level to advanced step . |
| 3 | They are trained on short training sessions run by the individual companies . |
| 4 | They are fed on frozen bloodworm , flake and Tetra Ruby . |
| 5 | They are binding on all academics engaged in their profession , whatever their discipline . |
| 6 | They should be reminded too that canned baked beans in tomato sauce are highly nutritious and can be a quick and convenient addition to many main meals or can even make quite a good meal on their own if they are served on buttered toast . |
| 7 | Only a bone-headed Government would not accept that , by taking away young people 's ability to claim benefit and housing benefit and the opportunity to receive a decent reward for a training scheme , and by halving the value of the training allowance in the past 12 years , they are picking on young people who , at the same time , are being pushed ever further towards the consumer society . |
| 8 | Use the best quality paper , and if you are getting several photocopies made make sure they are done on good quality paper and not ordinary photocopy paper . |
| 9 | To see that they obey , they are flanked on either side by a koonkie who acts as schoolmaster . |
| 10 | She explained : ‘ People are paying a lot of money for very little heat , they are living on low incomes or benefits in houses with no insulation and poor heating systems . |
| 11 | At the apex of the jaw the ventralmost tooth may be superficial , separating , the infradental papillae so that it appears to be an apical papilla ; in other specimens the infradental papillae lie closer together ; they are followed on each side by two block-like oral papillae . |
| 12 | One final point to remember is that goods despatched before 31 December will be treated as exports within the existing system even if they are to arrive on 1 January or later . |
| 13 | Initial investments of this type are relatively easy to plan because they are based on actual estimates . |
| 14 | Merton was dismayed that Mannheim distinguished between ‘ cultural science ’ and ‘ exact science ’ ; for Merton they should be treated as similar forms of knowledge because they are based on equivalent epistemologies . |
| 15 | The accounts , even if they are based on genuine memory as many undoubtedly are , are more examples of the kind of thing Jesus used to do . |
| 16 | They are based on good teaching practice , and many teachers are already aware of their value as methods which neither pre-empt pupils ' responses nor suggest that there is one orthodox , accepted interpretation . |
| 17 | Insofar as advantages are claimed for genericism , they are based on wider issues than those arising from the specific client group . |
| 18 | The defence protects the honest views of the crank and the eccentric , but not when they are based on dishonest statements of fact . |
| 19 | The results also cover much longer periods than are possible with modern experimental field studies and they are based on direct evidence of intercomparable past conditions . |
| 20 | The recipes below are all surprisingly low in the sugar and fat stakes , largely because they are based on fresh fruit — hardly naughty and very nice ! |
| 21 | For Rex and Tomlinson , the only way in which black people are likely to change their own situation is to develop forms of self-defence and self-help which are , in a sense , anti-colonialist , in that they are based on Third World models , ‘ looking to a change in the balance of power and resources between rich and poor nations as a means to their own liberation ’ ( p. 293 ) . |
| 22 | These manufactured crayons differ from lump sanguine in that they are based on special recipes , including China clay admixtures , to soften the natural properties of the colouring matter used . |
| 23 | They are based on physical needs such as hunger and thirst which are satisfied by primary reinforcement in the form of food and water . |
| 24 | ( Lighter fabric weights are quoted in the USA , but they are based on uncoated fabric , e.g. 1/2 or 3/4 oz/yd . ) |
| 25 | If not then though the general features of the graph in Figure 6.9 remain , they are based on fewer data . |
| 26 | Rather , they are based on misplaced assumptions and upon male-dominated notions of employment . |
| 27 | Now they are calling on local businesses to offer support . |
| 28 | This , of course , assumes that they are rewarded on this basis as well . |
| 29 | The first is its conformity with the General MIDI Specification , designed to provide greater compatibility for MIDI song files when they are played on different MIDI set-ups . |
| 30 | Now it seems to me that they are challenging on that basis that they can it can be it can be detailed at the local level that individual boundaries can be challenged . |