Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The praise was well-deserved , but this was no time to be resting on laurels . |
| 2 | I may be adequate for staging and synchronizing embryos for some purposes , a precise analysis of developmental mechanisms can only be undertaken on cells of known age . |
| 3 | Would we not be touching on areas that are sub judice , or which are the subject of possible legal action , which may or may not be taken ? |
| 4 | Clause 21 gives strengthened dismissal rights to pregnant women by substituting a new s 60 in the EP(C)A 1978 under which , regardless of their length of service , all women employees have a right not to be dismissed on grounds of pregnancy or childbirth . |
| 5 | As a result , the government added an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Bill ( 1986 ) to make it unlawful for a woman to be dismissed on grounds of age when a man would not be . |
| 6 | 10.8 If an employee who has been declared permanently unfit refuses reasonable offers of suitable alternative employment , they will be dismissed on grounds of permanent disablement . |
| 7 | The jurisdiction to grant relief for breach of covenant other than to pay rent is discretionary , and may be given on terms . |
| 8 | Now , they say , future battles will be waged on features and added value . |
| 9 | In authorities where there are party groups it is almost universal practice for the group to meet before meetings of full council and for group decisions to be binding on members at full council meetings , although there is often ( but not always ) a more relaxed attitude to voting discipline in committees ( see Widdicombe , 1986 , vol. 1 , tables 2.3–2.6 ) . |
| 10 | The Hebrew scriptures imposed a law not to be binding on Gentiles , yet ( for all its moral imperfections ) not to be set in sharp antithesis to the new and more excellent way of love embodied in Jesus ' life and teaching . |
| 11 | Secondly , there needs to be a reasonably close relationship between taxation and accountability : if some voters can gain markedly greater benefits than others without making any substantial financial contribution , then the electoral system is likely to encourage higher levels of spending than would be justified on grounds of efficiency . |
| 12 | Accordingly your refusal to concur in Robertson 's telegram is approved and you are requested to inform SAC that we are strongly of the opinion that such contemplated violation of agreed Anglo-American policy can not be justified on grounds of administrative expediency . " |
| 13 | Then the legs would be stacked on plates and the remainder of the meat sliced to make sandwiches . |
| 14 | Third , information will be gathered on factors within higher education which are considered to create problems in expanding Arabic studies , as these were not analysed systematically in the Parker Report . |
| 15 | UNIONIST politicians are demanding crash barriers be erected on pavements to save pedestrians from joyriders . |
| 16 | Question 18 Do you have any other suggestions as to the way in which limits might be placed on grants out of the compensation fund ? |
| 17 | Several speakers at the seminar argued for a monetary value to be placed on resources such as irrigation water . |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , given the substantial extra burden that will be placed on employers , well-meaning proposals to extend the benefits of the national insurance system to low-paid employees would have the opposite effect to the one intended , as most would lose their jobs ? |
| 19 | The next steps will be concerned with getting down to the details of research itself , and emphasis will be placed on problems of field research . |
| 20 | G Those discussions were fitted into a regular CDP meeting which itself discussed ‘ polytechnic autonomy ’ , and in which a variety of views were recorded — the institutions were at different stages of development ; the CNAA had established national status and its degrees were accepted currency ; the CNAA was known to be giving serious attention to ways and means of giving greater freedoms to experienced colleges ; emphasis should not be placed on charters as such … . |
| 21 | Against the need for a society in which persons are free to go about their business unmolested might be weighed other considerations such as the importance to be placed on freedoms of speech and assembly . |
| 22 | The methods which have been described in detail in Chapter Three will be dealt with briefly here and emphasis will be placed on methods particularly suitable for online training . |
| 23 | Having recently announced a new health warnings to be placed on packets in fulfilment of the EC Labelling Directive , the Secretary of State for Health , William Waldegrave , has now reportedly agreed with the tobacco industry that the same warnings will also be used on advertising . |
| 24 | Sometimes it seems more appropriate to describe tonic stress placement in terms of ‘ information content ’ : the more predictable a word 's occurrence is in a given context , the lower its information content is , and tonic stress will tend to be placed on words with high information content . |
| 25 | It was thought by some that too great a burden might be placed on principals in smaller firms or on sole practitioners if such a proposal were made mandatory , and that either the ‘ net ’ of suitable signatories should be widened to include assistant solicitors or Fellows of ILEX , or that the category of undertaking to which the ‘ rule ’ might apply should exclude those of a routine or non-financial nature . |
| 26 | A ribbed shell of this kind is often stronger than one without ribs ( for the same reason that corrugated iron is used for roofing ) , and it is probably no coincidence that ribs may be developed on bivalves too . |
| 27 | I was struck by the fact that Cornwall seems to be overspending on roads and underspending on its schools . |
| 28 | It thinks that a sensible way would be to standardise on windows , icons , menus , and command box style via agreement on specific languages — such as C , C++ — for all interfaces , with reusable source code modules , rather than on specific product-oriented solutions . |
| 29 | Similarly , interest rates appear open to manipulation and hard-to-prove subsidy , so differences across borders can also be blamed on governments ( theirs ) . |
| 30 | A lot can be blamed on years of dictatorship and rotten planning — but not all . |