Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE SENIOR Strathclyde education official who faced calls for his dismissal after linking ‘ genetic factors ’ to the school performance of black and Asian children is to retire early on Friday . |
| 2 | And it is becoming clear that the company will need to raise new capital if the second phase of its development , a theme park called Disney MGM Studios-Europe , is to go ahead on schedule . |
| 3 | competitive interest rate which is calculated separately on each separate amount drawn |
| 4 | Emphasis is placed however on the need for fairness in applying regulations to groups of institutions , given the need to stimulate neutral competitive conditions . |
| 5 | Some of this information is summarized in the present chapter , and emphasis is placed here on the sources of the pellet/scat samples and their specific points of interest . |
| 6 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 7 | Alternatively , a replacement nylon seat can be fitted which is placed firmly on the old seat and a new washer and jumper fitted |
| 8 | Well positioned , the hotel is situated directly on the seafront road , about 15 minutes walk from the old centre of Pesaro . |
| 9 | Incontinence is treated fully on pages 70 to 76 in the chapter Giving Special Care . |
| 10 | Cash is received immediately on cash sales . |
| 11 | Today , the laughter is heard mainly on the way to the bank as Akio Morita , 61 , the cofounder and the chairman of the Sony Corporation , continues to make his five-billion dollar corporation a fount of ever newer and more dazzling inventions . |
| 12 | Maybe it 's tucked away on a high shelf somewhere . ’ |
| 13 | The fact that the negative side receives very much more attention from him than the positive side , and that the attack is pressed home on only one of the two experiential explanations , has had the unfortunate result that Wittgenstein can be mistakenly thought to be giving the alternative experiential explanation , in terms of behaviour . |
| 14 | Government functions were to be carried out instead by a Cabinet attached to executive President Islam Karimov [ whose title is given wrongly on p. 37323 as President of the Supreme Soviet ] . |
| 15 | The new edition is even larger than the last and runs to 925 pages , partly because of some repetition ; for example , the full name of the privy Council is given twice on the same page as is the statement that its jurisdiction extends only to Great Britain . |
| 16 | The question of er P P G thirteen and transportation I think is vitally important , York will come into the position that Chester er where I was just at a transportation enquiry recently , it 's a very similar sort of city , it 's not quite the same as Cambridge , where Cambridge is leaping ahead on quite , some would say draconian transportation measures , York in the forceable future will have to look at specialist transportation measures , that 's important in terms of the planning policy guidance that is out , it 's also in the white paper , it may be in draft P P G thirteen , it 's also in I think it 's P P G twenty two , renewable energy , that we should now be looking at developments which is closer to work , that links then to the question of sustainability and viability of a new settlement , I am not aware , and and I put it guardedly in those terms , of any significant employment existing or proposed in any of the new settlement proposals . |
| 17 | This is permitted only on condition that they help in the conquest of Canaan before returning to a settled life . |
| 18 | said ’ … in modern times very little is needed to give rise to the inference that property in specific goods is to pass only on delivery or payment . ’ |
| 19 | The 2% drop in audit and business advisory services is blamed largely on a combination of the recession , fierce competition and ‘ severe downward pressure ’ on fees , while the knock-on effect of clients ' postponing discretionary spending was a 5% drop in management consultancy fee income . |
| 20 | A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . |
| 21 | She is healthy and ‘ working right ’ when her substance is organised primarily on principles which align it to her interests and welfare . |
| 22 | ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street . |
| 23 | An alternative approach , which will be adopted in this chapter , is to concentrate rather on the possibility of identifying divisions which pertain to particular object domains and which may not be consistent with any cohesive representation or society . |
| 24 | Cologne University , which acts as a supercomputing centre for industries in its area , is to concentrate also on business economics , global economic models , currency exchange trends and fluid mechanics . |
| 25 | Since no amount of economic reductionism or political explanation alone will expose the roots and distinctive characteristics of the province of Ulster by the late Victorian period , the aim of this investigation is to concentrate specifically on the important contribution made by evangelical religion , from the early penetration by Methodism in the mid eighteenth century to the political crises surrounding Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | You have a misplaced disc which is pressing hard on the top of your spinal cord . ’ |
| 27 | A GOVERNMENT decision is expected soon on whether Suffolk will gain its first secure unit for young offenders . |
| 28 | A decision is expected shortly on whether Dr Siddiqui will be prosecuted for incitement to murder . |
| 29 | The purpose of the relationship is to work together on matters of importance to the client . |
| 30 | Whenever leading faces of stage and screen change their image drastically , it 's a heavy indication of what 's happening generally on the fashion scene . |