Example sentences of "[is] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third reason why dieting makes you fat is because fat is less metabolically active than muscle … the one sure way to slow the body down and so create the conditions for getting fat is to go on a diet |
| 2 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 3 | Visitors from all over the region are converging on the Gray Art Gallery and Museum , Hartlepool , to see an exhibition of the work of realist painter John Bratby , which is to go on a UK tour . |
| 4 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow , starting from Darlington Market Place at 9am . |
| 5 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow . |
| 6 | The normal corporate tax rate is 31% and personal tax is calculated on a sliding scale , reaching a maximum of 30% for a taxable income of S$800,000 a year . |
| 7 | Unemployment Benefit is calculated on a daily basis , so that each day on which an Unemployment Benefit recipient works is a day for which he is not entitled to claim any benefit . |
| 8 | Supplementary Benefit is calculated on a weekly basis and is reduced by the equivalent of any earnings in the week that are in excess of £4 . |
| 9 | However Transitional Reduction is calculated on a Scheme Council Tax in accordance with the Government Regulations and not in accordance with the actual Council Tax levied by the Region and District Councils , in addition water charges are excluded from both years . |
| 10 | Spokesman Mike Newman said : ‘ The rent increases reflect the increased commercial opportunities open to tenants and is calculated on a fair open-market basis . |
| 11 | This cost is calculated on a ‘ discount to yield ’ basis at 10 per cent . |
| 12 | Multilateralism is the opposite of bilateralism under which a country 's trade and investment is arranged on a reciprocal basis with specific partners . |
| 13 | Because even the most inspired forecasts of how prices are going to move ca n't be right all the time , some forward purchasing is arranged on a ‘ hedging ’ basis . |
| 14 | The Broadcasting Standards Council is placed on a statutory footing , and will draw up a code ‘ giving guidance ’ on violence , sex and ‘ standards of taste and decency ’ . |
| 15 | If a container of mixed aggregate , from broken flintstone and river ballast to fine sand , is placed on a vibrating table , the mixture separates out into sedimentary layers . |
| 16 | When we arrive at the spot the cassette is placed on a flat stone and the boys , all high from après-school , gather round , their bright , smiling faces meaning mischief to us both . |
| 17 | The plate is placed on a hot plate and the printing ink is forced into the marks bitten by the acid into the surface of the metal , the ink is cleaned , wiped off the areas where no marks have been etched by using pads of muslin . |
| 18 | The teams stand in line and the feather is placed on a chair at the end of the room . |
| 19 | The high-relief figure — one could hardly call it a three-dimensional effigy — is placed on a plain black ledger lying on the floor , and appears as a body rising vertically from the grave . |
| 20 | The mother learns that if the child is placed on a pot at these particular times she is likely to avoid having dirty nappies . |
| 21 | In spite of occasional feelings to the contrary , usually described as good or bad luck , the physical world is neither for nor against the actions of the individual ( except in the robotic sense of Le Chatilier 's principle which states that whenever a constraint is placed on a system in equilibrium , the equilibrium is altered in such a way as to annul the efforts of the constraint ) . |
| 22 | The master is placed on a drum and comes into contact with damp rollers then ink rollers . |
| 23 | The emphasis then is placed on a responsive state , interpreting change in terms of majority preferences . |
| 24 | Diagnosis can be delayed if too much reliance is placed on a blood glucose strip . |
| 25 | They may contrast deictics like here and there , for instance , but they may do so by using here to signal transfers of possession-'Here' , said as a child hands a toy to a parent ; and there to signal completion — ‘ There ! ’ as the last block is placed on a tower ( e.g. , Clark and Sengul , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | When a graphics element is placed on a page there is now an option to set text wraparound . |
| 27 | The particle is placed on a flat surface and the length of the intermediate axis , 1 , is determined as the shortest visible diameter . |
| 28 | With the resin combination used above , the jig is placed on a hotplate and curing carried out at 80°C for about 15 minutes . |
| 29 | During point counting , the thin section is placed on a mechanical stage screwed to the rotating stage of the microscope , which is then clamped . |
| 30 | Each of those drawings is placed on a background , photographed , and another , similar , but slightly different one photographed next to give the impression of movement . |