Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To summarise , many partnerships appear to have focused or been focused on the immediate and not necessarily the important . |
| 2 | The sharpness of the turn led to a bitter faction fight , at the end of which most of the recent recruits had either left or been ejected on the toe of Healy 's boot . |
| 3 | Finds which are not recovered during excavation , but are discovered by accident or are found on the surface of the ground during a field survey , are sometimes called stray finds . |
| 4 | An organised approach has the best chance of success in those areas where local councils are anti or are teetering on the verge of becoming so . |
| 5 | The majority of items required on an everyday basis such as food , clothing , building materials , fuel and water , were either to be found locally or were produced on the farm . |
| 6 | If there is no issue , but there are parents , or , failing them , brothers and sisters of the whole blood , then the spouse takes half the remaining estate absolutely , the other half going to parents , or being held on the ‘ statutory trusts ’ for brothers and sisters , as the case may be . |
| 7 | WE can see from the definition of a tackle that : ‘ If the ball carrier is on one knee , or both knees , or is sitting on the ground or is on top of another player who is on the ground , the ball carrier is deemed to have been brought to ground ’ . |
| 8 | The NI has always been sceptical about the value of government-to-government overseas aid , which too easily finds its way into the pockets of an elite or is wasted on the wrong kind of project . |
| 9 | Most importantly the heads can contain terms that are binding on the vendor and purchaser . |
| 10 | In this respect , therefore , our work conforms to the general principles of Labov 's work and is not comparable with studies ( experimental or otherwise ) that are based on the language of , for example , RP-speaking or near RP-speaking persons from amongst the analyst 's own university students . |
| 11 | The effective pollinators are a pair of Epicharis spp. but there are glandular trichomes inside the corolla , secreting oils that are deposited on the anthers , but this is collected only by Trigona pallens , an ineffective pollinator . |
| 12 | Sherlock consists of two green boxes that are positioned on the river bank . |
| 13 | Paths could then be continued from all new short words that are stored on the word graph . |
| 14 | A GIS stores both cartographic data ( showing topography or individual themes such as soils or geology ) and attribute data associated with the spatial entities ( points , lines and polygons ) that are represented on the maps . |
| 15 | The disadvantages are the limitations that are placed on the observer who can only gain a limited amount of information without intruding and thus altering the spontaneity of the behaviour . |
| 16 | 1984 ; Schmitt 1982b ) but the one most often used in Britain consists of two pads of wire mesh that are placed on the child 's bed with a sheet separating them and another sheet on top for the child to lie on . |
| 17 | The extra constraints that are placed on the input by considering the tag in the context of each of the three positions in the trigram window ( i.e. start , middle and end of the trigram ) improve the selection of the correct word from the lattice . |
| 18 | It 's a , it 's a briefing document so that er all those involved are , that all those that are involved on the operation erm , are as well informed as is possible . |
| 19 | The suggestions that are made on the basis of the analysis may not suit everyone 's palate . |
| 20 | However , it will say that everything is being done to see that whatever attempts that are made on the whereabouts of its disclosures will be judged by their predicament and a positive answer will be prepared . |
| 21 | Thus , the results are very impressive : there is obviously a regular pattern in them , and as they are accountable to observed data , they are much more persuasive than categorical statements about language that are made on the basis of introspection alone . |
| 22 | The resolution dictates the number of lines of text that are displayed on the screen at the same time . |
| 23 | Treasury bills , bills of exchange , bankers acceptances and commercial paper are the most important examples of money market securities that are quoted on a discount basis , i.e. that are sold on the basis of a discount to par . |
| 24 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 25 | It is a package with measures to promote investment and provide capital allowances similar to those that industry and commerce are begging for — pleas that are falling on the deaf ears of the Chancellor . |
| 26 | And there are also 20 huge panels that are going on the sides of the buses , that kids have also painted . |
| 27 | Well , erm perhaps extending that , it 's not just the policeman but it 's the law and the law enforcement agencies that are sitting on the lid of violence here . |
| 28 | There do exist excellent WYSIWYG systems that are centred on the logical nature of material , notably Grif and Quill . |
| 29 | I , I , I could take you into in Craven Arms on this Wednesday morning and introduce you to more unemployed people than are shown on the register , I think |
| 30 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |