Example sentences of "is [verb] on [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative approach to the equalisation of the geographical distribution of services is to concentrate on improving the physical and social standard of the ‘ undesirable ’ neighbourhoods . |
| 2 | Hyundai Electronic America 's Axil Workstations Inc is bent on conquering the slippery slopes of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc cloning , and last week announced the Axil-220 , a MicroSparc knock-off of the Sparc Classic undercutting Sun by pricing it at $3,600 in single quantities and letting it run Solaris 1.1 as well as 2. x . |
| 3 | he evaluation of the UK government 's import quota and the EC minimum import price is based on comparing the observed quota with the quantity restriction shown in equation ( 23 ) , and on comparing the EC minimum import price with the optimal tariff using equation ( 22 ) . |
| 4 | This answer is based on applying the legal rules strictly . |
| 5 | Much time and effort is spent on getting the front page to look inviting . |
| 6 | The main effort in this theory is concentrated on exposing the logical superfluousness of the idea of substance as a " metaphysical substratum " , which still lingers on in — and complicates — Leibniz 's conception of the monad . |
| 7 | The Georgian eagle house has already been restored and work is continuing on reconstructing the 250 year old vegetable garden . |
| 8 | The doctor 's duty to the terminally ill is centred on making the patient comfortable until death . |