Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only place where all classes of British society mingle on equal terms is the motorway service area . |
| 2 | The possibility of being attacked on public transport is still low , especially if you avoid the more notorious stations , such as those in Central London and at the southern end of the Northern Line . |
| 3 | In the six months to 31 December , the total return earned on net assets was 16.6 per cent — ahead of both the 14.7 per cent rise in the FT-A All-Share Index and the Kleinwort Benson Topsi 100 , up 12.9 per cent . |
| 4 | New enhanced quality assurance ( QA ) procedures for electric submersible pumps ( ESPs ) used on Forties Echo are being implemented in a bid to extend pump run life . |
| 5 | A source of evidence that is often brought to bear on this question is the relative abundances of certain inert gas isotopes . |
| 6 | Erm they 're awfully difficult to cast because the art of bronze founding on that level is at least as far as I can see , almost died out , I 'm having terrible I 've terrible trouble with getting bronze cast . |
| 7 | For example , the most commonly preserved sample types occurring on British sites are bone , shell and charcoal , but on some sites — or in other areas of the world — a different range of materials might remain . |
| 8 | I was asked in the Straight Talking video last December — and I am still amazed at the number of people who believe that he questions on that video were stage managed , which they were n't — when morale would improve . |
| 9 | Thus , the returns during trading on each market are likely to lead the closed market returns for the other markets , and this is what Becker , Finnerty and Tucker found , except that the Nikkei Stock Average did not lead the FT-SE 100 . |
| 10 | A rapist who preyed on blonde women is starting a life sentence for the murder of Austrailian heiress Janie Shepherd 13 years ago . |
| 11 | That Minton had responded on many levels is evident not only from his paintings but also from an illustrated article which he wrote for Vogue . |
| 12 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 13 | The birds regularly recorded nesting on these cliffs are the Kestrel , Herring Gull , Jackdaw , Rock Pipit , Starling , House Sparrow and Stock Dove . |
| 14 | Median CD4 counts on first assessment were 391/L , and 31% had counts of 300 or fewer . |
| 15 | One use for an optical aid for pupils with tunnel vision that is designed on this principle is for mobility since it helps to increase the extent of the visual panorama . |
| 16 | Walking on icy ponds is dangerous |
| 17 | The going rate for solicitors in Bradford to work on such legislation is about £60 per hour , whereas the in-house price is about £14 per hour . |
| 18 | The first question which has been considered on this appeal is whether the justices were right in thinking that they had power in an appropriate case to order that there should be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Act of 1989 . |
| 19 | To overcome this difficulty , the estimated cumulative proportion of ulcers relapsing on each treatment was calculated using life tables and the log rank test as described by Peto et al because this method uses the actual duration of the ulcer free period for each patient and allows any censored data to be incorporated into the calculation up to the point at which the patient drops out of the trial . |
| 20 | Idle strumming on this guitar is a delight — it feels really very good . |
| 21 | If more red than green members of a species of moth living on green foliage are being killed by predators , that may be selection ; but only if the predators are not colour-blind ; if they are it is random sampling error . |
| 22 | But the issue to be decided on this appeal is one relating to the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 23 | The transformants selected on minimal medium were grown for 4 days on solid medium with uridine ( 100 mg/liter ) . |
| 24 | Cost saving on this scale is particularly important in videodisc applications because videodiscs and their workstations are costly . |
| 25 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 26 | Rome is supposed to be built on seven hills is n't it or something ? |
| 27 | The sophisticated scheme of abutment to this immense choir built on sloping ground is not only a remarkable engineering achievement for its day but a creation of great aesthetic beauty . |
| 28 | Internal relations will also be furthered if those who have featured on filmed material are told when they might expect to see themselves , and the company personnel as a whole will be interested in watching a program me featuring their company . |
| 29 | Many experiments have been concerned to show that information from successive sentences is integrated into an organised whole ; and that efficient memory for a discourse depends on such organisation being possible . |
| 30 | A lot depends on new sponsors being found to replace the brewing giants , but Chelmsford coach Brad Doshan plans to qualify automatically by winning all six play-off games . |