Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 2 | In Britain , 15 per cent of the 18–24-year-old population are enrolled on higher education courses . |
| 3 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 4 | We are building on this . |
| 5 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 6 | about joining the airport policy consortium to making sure that members and officers views are er sort of , er officer and member representation and to make sure that Hertfordshire 's views are heard on this policy consortium because as Peter quite rightly said , erm it 's made up of members and officers of County and District Council 's South of the river and yes although their com their main intention is opposing terminal five , regrettably yes they are considering expansion at Stansted er , er far more than an alternative . |
| 7 | At first sight , this could turn out to be the bargain of the century , because the asset-values are calculated on 1991 prices , even though Russian prices rose by a vertiginous 2,600% during 1992 . |
| 8 | These payments are calculated on 8.75 per cent of the sales value of production from 8.62608 per cent of the Ninian field [ 50 per cent of the Group 's interest in the field ] after deducting Government royalties and operating costs incurred in extracting the oil and conveying and treating it at Sullom Voe . |
| 9 | In an editorial statement later this morning , Akira Kobayashi , the Chief Executive Officer of GenTech East , will explain how unreasonable and inefficient the Soviets are proving on this issue . |
| 10 | Holograms are placed on real Microsoft products to distinguish them from fakes ; but they , too , were being mass-produced for counterfeiters by a university in China . |
| 11 | The fund 's assets are placed on fixed deposit with AA credit-rated banks . |
| 12 | The living turtles are placed on burning coals and heated until their top and bottom shells become malleable enough to rip off . |
| 13 | Those of the dragonfly are placed on either side of the head and seem to act as horizon detectors . |
| 14 | A light source and photosensitive device photodiode , phototransistor or photovoltaic cell — are placed on opposite sides of the disc , so that the device is illuminated whenever a disc slot is in front of the light source . |
| 15 | This pattern , which echoes the scheme invented by Sylvester for the Tate Gallery more than twenty years ago and encourages a focus upon single works , is continued in the long gallery of the ground floor where paintings from 1929 to 1939 are placed on both sides of a partition wall . |
| 16 | As soon as the operation has been performed and while they are still bleeding , the young warriors are placed on this mukula log . |
| 17 | Donkey Lane In answer to a letter sent by the chairman , the Department of Planning stated that no restrictions are placed on this road with regard to its use by horses . |
| 18 | Donkey Lane In answer to a letter sent by the chairman , the Department of Planning stated that no restrictions are placed on this road with regard to its use by horses . |
| 19 | While , as suggested earlier , the different time horizons of elected politicians and civil servants allow scope for the fragmentation of policy-making and group interests , limits are placed on this by the openness of the British state to organized interests . |
| 20 | Full details of how to enter are given on this page |
| 21 | This report was criticised because of the small number of patients studied and because patients had not been stabilised on each insulin before acute hypoglycaemia was induced . |
| 22 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 23 | The complete holdings of each periodical title are listed on one or more cards . |
| 24 | 93 stations are listed on 380 frequencies . |
| 25 | On inter-island sectors when conditions are suitable , routes are flown on special VFR clearances , often not above 1,000 feet . |
| 26 | Two main kinds of European amber have been distinguished on chemical grounds . |
| 27 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 28 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 29 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 30 | May 1865 , shortly after President Lincoln had been assassinated on 14th . |