Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistivity surveying is based on the principle that underground features such as masonry walls have a high resistance to an electric current , whereas filled-in features , such as ditches or pits , have a lower resistance . |
| 2 | The rated current of a stepping motor winding is assessed on the basis of the maximum allowable temperature rise when the winding is continuously excited . |
| 3 | What I 'd do is stay on the other side of the room so I would n't get sucked through it . |
| 4 | All you 've got ta do is to sit on the bog and go oooaaah |
| 5 | What the report does not do is to comment on the appropriateness of the sampling methodology for producing these kinds of performance measures . |
| 6 | All your accounts remain separate , but the amount of interest you earn is based on the family 's total . |
| 7 | So technology has advanced considerably , and what we 've done is to capitalise on the younger engineers and we 've introduced another phase called neighbourhood engineers and this is where we rely on the er goodwill of the firms to actually sa let their seconder engineers sometimes , but certainly let them out into the er into the schools careers convention work places to talk to the actual youngster itself . |
| 8 | Successive visits by Motherwell and Airdrie have seen attendances recorded at 3,370 and 3,079 respectively ; clearly insufficient numbers to maintain the running of a full-time outfit at Dens Park , let alone allow the investment manager Simon Stainrod says is required on the playing staff . |
| 9 | Moreover , it is of greatest benefit to the top-rate taxpayers , as the relief granted is based on the taxpayer 's marginal ( ie highest ) rate of taxation . |
| 10 | The system which was adopted is based on the chart shown in Figure 4.6 . |
| 11 | Kwik Save is to open on the two Sundays before Christmas . |
| 12 | The language syllabus of Streamline is based on the carefully controlled introduction of new structures and vocabulary . |
| 13 | This same lateral braced bridling is found on the flexible Parafoils or Stratoscoop types . |
| 14 | The next thing I remember is standing on the motorway verge , waving for help . |
| 15 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |
| 16 | What Making Belfast Work has been able to do is draw on the ability of what Mrs. Thatcher would call West Belfast 's ‘ active citizens ’ to develop many of the self-help projects that have characterised the enterprising nature of the community for many years . |
| 17 | I found the windows version easier to use , as all the commands are available at the top of the screen in the form of buttons ( in true windows format ) , all you need to do is to click on the required command . |
| 18 | What I want to do is concentrate on the modern sex theory and then er explain that and then relate it to Freud . |
| 19 | All Nigel has time to do is slap on the magic sponge and decide whether the man can carry on . |
| 20 | ‘ All that Wordsworthian waffle , and then when you meet the people all they want to do is hop on the bus and off to the nearest bright lights . ’ |
| 21 | All all it 's doing is staying on the outside dear . |
| 22 | All Eva remembers is lying on the sofa wondering if she was going to die , and saying , " Well , Lord , if this is the end of my life I 'll just have to say how thankful I am , and what a wonderful privilege its been , but if it 's your will for me to live then I just give myself to you all the more . |
| 23 | This inability of the court to intervene is founded on the fact that the applicable law is not the common law of England but a peculiar or domestic law of which the visitor is the sole judge . |
| 24 | The objective of summarizing is to check on the level of understanding and give an opportunity to sort out misunderstandings . |
| 25 | One approach to control is based on the susceptibility of the L3 to desiccation and on the fact that a major route of infection is percutaneous . |
| 26 | The reasoning which follows is based on the opinion , already inseparable from what has been said , that appropriation is a neutral expression and does not convey the sense of taking property for oneself without the owner 's authority . |
| 27 | The account of them which follows is based on the print of the Bill which is dated 19th February 1975 . |
| 28 | Much of the analysis which follows is based on the models used in Emerson et al. |
| 29 | Where this is the case the applicant must file at court : ( a ) a written request for leave setting out the reasons for the application ; and ( b ) a draft of the application for which leave is sought on the appropriate form , with sufficient copies for service on all respondents ( FPCR , r3(1) ; FPR , r4.3(1) ) . |
| 30 | The restructuring that we are seeing is mirrored on the continent . |