Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two policemen are killed during a break-in at the Presidio ( a San Francisco military base ) and a former military policeman ( Mark Harman ) is assigned to work on the case with his former commanding officer ( Sean Connery ) who he hates . |
| 2 | the service requested is intended to confer on the tribunal making the request jurisdiction over a person who by the law of the State of execution can not be subjected to such jurisdiction . |
| 3 | In addition , it is intended to focus on the significance of his speech repertoire to the individual user , and of the significance to the particular community of the language that expresses and reflects its identity . |
| 4 | In a fairly well ordered society , such as ours , one is justified to act on the assumption that , on the whole , our official organs , be they the police or any other governmental body , do their job properly . |
| 5 | But workers rejected that offer and the matter has now been referred to the national executive of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which is expected to rule on the dispute in the next few days . |
| 6 | The main axe is expected to fall on the firm 's back office operations and among administrative staff in an effort to contain expenses . |
| 7 | Work is expected to start on the pub next week . |
| 8 | ‘ It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground , ’ he said , and paused while he considered the sense of this . |
| 9 | This is said to depend on the intention of Parliament . |
| 10 | This is said to depend on the intention of Parliament but the test is fictitious as Parliament frequently gives no thought to the question . |
| 11 | Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 12 | Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 13 | A sum in the region of £50 million is thought to rest on the outcome of the case . |
| 14 | In the next Section the torque produced by the motor is shown to depend on the interaction of the phase current and induced phase voltage . |
| 15 | Although it is the Lord Chancellor who makes orders closing records for longer than the normal thirty year period , in practice he is bound to rely on the advice of other departments . |
| 16 | The European Commission is set to rule on the dispute at the end of the month . |
| 17 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 18 | 2 The kick is applied , and at the same time , weight is brought to bear on the attacker 's trapped arm , pushing him down . |
| 19 | In Slow Motion , that clear-sighted optimism is brought to bear on the advances made in men 's individual attitudes and behaviour , as well as state regulation and definitions of gender positions and possibilities . |
| 20 | This suggests a very high degree of similarity in the mental structure that is brought to bear on the input by language learners and in the strategies that they employ in constructing and progressively modifying their internal grammar . |
| 21 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 22 | The gross savings rate out of output Y is assumed to depend on the capital-labour ratio ( the nature of this dependence is discussed below ) , and we take the simple case of a proportionate rate of depreciation , y , often referred to as ‘ radioactive decay ’ . |
| 23 | As Derek Attridge has demonstrated , Puttenham is forced to rely on the idea of decorum to argue that poets can transform the ‘ vices ’ of rhetoric to virtues in their use of art to perfect rather than pervert nature . |
| 24 | Because the arbitrator is meant to decide on the basis of certain reasons , the disputants are excluded from later relying on them . |
| 25 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 26 | In pairs one partner assumes the role of any one of the people in the photograph and tells the other ( a colleague , friend or relative ) why he is tempted to go on the journey . |
| 27 | But without such knowledge , the reader is required to focus on the language and make considerable efforts of inference . |
| 28 | As latent inhibition is held to depend on the integrity of the context — stimulus association , both these procedures should alleviate the retarding effect of pre-exposure to the stimulus . |