Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 2 | File selection and search practice are carried out on two emulated systems ( DIALOG and ORBIT ) . |
| 3 | However , many market research studies are carried out on large samples which would be beyond the reach of academic researchers and it is not unusual to find commercial surveys which contain quite valuable social information . |
| 4 | Various investigations are carried out on surgical wards . |
| 5 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 6 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 7 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
| 8 | Phase I clinical trials have been carried out on healthy volunteers to evaluate the way the drug is absorbed and its potential toxicity . |
| 9 | He is blind to the independent studies that have been carried out on that programme , such as that by Professor Snower of Birkbeck college , which demonstrates clearly and beyond doubt how damaging those proposals would be to the creation of jobs in this country . |
| 10 | As a consequence the struggle for Palestine has been carried out on many levels , creating a complexity which even the participants have at times found difficult to follow . |
| 11 | Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey . |
| 12 | Species develop , it is argued , specific forms of innate behaviours and drives which are geared towards survival and reproduction and , while much of this work has been carried out on non-human species , it has indeed been applied directly to the human animal : Desmond Morris 's ‘ naked ape ’ . |
| 13 | Much online catalogue research has been carried out on outdated , first-generation systems , or on specially developed " toy " systems which do not access real files and are in no way suitable for live use in a library . |
| 14 | Fewer studies have been carried out on microcirculatory hemodynamic changes of the stomach induced by endothelin , however . |
| 15 | Most of the research on learning has been carried out on unnatural behaviour patterns , in the laboratory , particularly in two species : rats and pigeons . |
| 16 | Further work has now been carried out on these Sections and this report contains proposals for the Control and Collection Sections to enable the recruitment process for Council staff to be carried out in good time . |
| 17 | Very little research has been carried out on domestic wares and it remains far from clear to what extent the domestic and funerary pottery production can be separated . |
| 18 | The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen . |
| 19 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 20 | Steps built out in front of retaining walls may look better if they 're ‘ returned ’ : the sides are built out on each step , to form rectangular , curved or rounded ends , filling in all or part of the space up to the retaining wall , so that each step continues round instead of ending abruptly at the side . |
| 21 | Yeah so , there 's a bit more , more could have been written down on that . |
| 22 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 23 | Notwithstanding that the royal prerogative as a source of power for the government antedates Acts of Parliament , has been at the root of a civil war and a revolution in England and has been litigated about on countless major occasions in respect of its use both at home and overseas , its scope is still unclear as is the role of the courts in relation thereto . |
| 24 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 25 | They 're hung , they 're hung up on polished hangers usually , I mean it 's packed in acid-free tissue paper , and I wear gloves when I , I mean , you know , handle |
| 26 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 27 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 28 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 29 | They 're cutting back on those , apparently . ’ |
| 30 | When you go and buy your ticket and you 're setting off on that day |