Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 2 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 3 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 4 | I thank the Minister for that answer and the confirmation that during the Government 's tenure the burden has been placed firmly on the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it . |
| 5 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 6 | Over 5,000 students are registered worldwide on the Masters programme , the majority studying the Distance Learning MBA . |
| 7 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 8 | A large white cross has been painted roughly on the ground . |
| 9 | Prices and incomes policies have been justified historically on the grounds that , if successful , they serve directly to scale down the rates of increase of money wages and absolute prices while minimizing the rise in unemployment which a policy of demand restriction would entail . |
| 10 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 11 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |
| 12 | The arms carry spines ; in euryalid genera on the ventral part of the arm , while in the ophiurids they are carried laterally on the lateral arm plates . |
| 13 | ( The abacus beads are scattered randomly on the wires of the abacus . ) |
| 14 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 15 | The defeat of the Labour Party for the second time in 1983 had been blamed largely on the media campaign which had glorified the Falklands , hammered Foot , and unleashed a campaign of unprecedented vitriol against Livingstone 's GLC and the ‘ Loony Left ’ . |
| 16 | Service points outside the ‘ central ’ library are grouped together on the familiar area basis . |
| 17 | For each , engineering geology maps of the solid and superficial deposits are prepared on which materials are grouped together on the basis of their engineering characteristics . |
| 18 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 19 | Right let's catch up with what 's been happening nationally on the football scene , and join Headley Feast . |
| 20 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 21 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 22 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 23 | Operation ‘ Winch ’ , ' 3 April 1941. the first Hurricane IIA aircraft to be delivered to Malta are seen here on the dock of H.M.S. Ark Royal' . |
| 24 | Not , to be sure , the rapid changes in administrative structure , much though the results of sectorisation have been felt actually on the track . |
| 25 | I think I can claim that the whole last part is bound to make an impact on our musical public ; at least , if I compare it with what has been said recently on the same problem by Hanslick and others … |
| 26 | Subsidies are granted only on the agreement that a set percentage of any budget must be spent in Hamburg . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Richmann began dangerously , ‘ that these changes in plan have been made just on the basis of your superstitious intuition that the newest arrivals on the island are somehow dangerous ? ’ |
| 28 | The high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance . |
| 29 | Northern fur seals have for centuries been exploited commercially on the Pribilov and other islands in the Bering Sea ; since 1911 stocks have been managed and exploitation limited under international agreement , providing a rare example of successful management of an international resource ( Young , 1981 ; Gulland , 1974 ) . |
| 30 | Thieblot and Haggard emphasise that these observations are made only on the basis of ‘ preliminary analysis ’ and do not offer any empirical validation . |