Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 2 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 3 | Can I just say then we seem to have agreed that that standard Andrew points been taken on board and dismissed out of hand |
| 4 | The professions have lost many of their better men ; many of those who remain are concentrating on maximising profits and fees to feather nests in the US , Canada or Australia . |
| 5 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 6 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 7 | The two pieces of knitting to be joined are replaced on the needles . |
| 8 | The two pieces to be joined are replaced on the needles with the right sides of the fabric together . |
| 9 | ‘ Therefore , Labour will be back in strength in the next election , and in the meantime , will be tiny of the performance of the council which has been elected on this occasion . ’ |
| 10 | In the Monadhliath project , fieldwork has been completed on the Glen Roy and Fortrose sheets , but continued in a further four sheet areas within the project . |
| 11 | Father , we are thankful for the work that has been completed on the church building and we rejoice at the skills and abilities that have made it possible . |
| 12 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |
| 13 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 14 | So erm can you tell us what proportion of the work erm had been completed before prices were fixed erm for those packages that have been an and also what proportion of the work has been completed on those packages yet to be priced . |
| 15 | Work has been completed on extending the platform at Ruswarp Station near Whitby . |
| 16 | The trial of two people accused of the murder of a man described as a police informer has been halted on the orders of the judge . |
| 17 | If hay has been rained on it may be completely useless . |
| 18 | ‘ Martial law has been declared on Mars , ’ announced Derek Carlisle . |
| 19 | DOWN in deepest Nesbitt Land , war has been declared on the mushy pea and the greasy chip . |
| 20 | The development of more than 20 houses at the former Fraser 's caravan site between the Scout Hut and the Jet Station in Currie has been opposed on the grounds of increased traffic through Juniper Green . |
| 21 | The development of more than 20 houses at the former Fraser 's caravan site between the Scout Hut and the Jet Station in Currie has been opposed on the grounds of increased traffic through Juniper Green . |
| 22 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 23 | The essence of limited partnership as a form of business enterprise has been explained on p. 29 in the section on choosing the form of business enterprise . |
| 24 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 25 | In addition , coaching sessions are arranged : there is a scheme organised by Prudential Insurance which runs weekly sessions for six weeks after Easter , and in the summer holidays further coaching has been arranged on a regular basis . |
| 26 | The debate has been characterised by deep-seated differences of opinion , but it has been recognised on both sides of the House that the British coal industry faces formidable challenges . |
| 27 | While it has to be obvious that current success has been built on foundations that were perhaps sounder than people generally thought ten years ago , the combination of a livelier economy and greater commercial drive ( leading above all to more commonsense , usually more local management ) has produced results far above the most rosy forecasts . |
| 28 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 29 | This is the highest point of the Floriade , while the lowest is some 4.5m below sea level because the whole festival has been built on reclaimed land . |
| 30 | Just how it came to be extinguished was something of a mystery , and even the Israelis who live in Ben Ami — the farming settlement that has been built on the site — had scarcely heard the name . |