Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 2 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 3 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 4 | At first sight , this could turn out to be the bargain of the century , because the asset-values are calculated on 1991 prices , even though Russian prices rose by a vertiginous 2,600% during 1992 . |
| 5 | The living turtles are placed on burning coals and heated until their top and bottom shells become malleable enough to rip off . |
| 6 | A light source and photosensitive device photodiode , phototransistor or photovoltaic cell — are placed on opposite sides of the disc , so that the device is illuminated whenever a disc slot is in front of the light source . |
| 7 | This pattern , which echoes the scheme invented by Sylvester for the Tate Gallery more than twenty years ago and encourages a focus upon single works , is continued in the long gallery of the ground floor where paintings from 1929 to 1939 are placed on both sides of a partition wall . |
| 8 | 93 stations are listed on 380 frequencies . |
| 9 | Two main kinds of European amber have been distinguished on chemical grounds . |
| 10 | Nowadays , I am consulted on all matters pertaining to him , and I feel my role is to make him better known . |
| 11 | The genuine popularity of the Prince , his self-evident concern and compassion , and events like his fortieth birthday party ( held in a Birmingham tram shed ) are drawing on new sources of support for the institution of monarchy beyond the recesses of middle-class dreaming . |
| 12 | The designers are drawing on broader influences : architecture , painting , and dance . |
| 13 | Particular emphasis has been placed on supervisory skills , multi-tasking and accreditation of competence , as well as safety and safety awareness training and graduate placement schemes . |
| 14 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 15 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 16 | The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies , such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones . |
| 17 | Stone 's operations in the US have also been criticized on environmental grounds . |
| 18 | The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds . |
| 19 | However their interpretation has been criticized on several counts which show that ‘ the family-firm analogy is misleading and generally overworked ; its character is usually symbolic or ideological rather than descriptive ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.432 ) . |
| 20 | The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] . |
| 21 | Key settlements have also been criticized on social grounds , a point that will be elaborated in the next section . |
| 22 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 23 | And actually have been to support on many occasions in her constituency . |
| 24 | Pairs of stimuli are aligned on two tracks of a magnetic tape such that the onset and offset of one stimulus coincide exactly with the onset and offset of the second stimulus . |
| 25 | Small , lance-shaped , dark green leaves are arranged on long stems in whorls of 6–8 . |
| 26 | Their decisions are binding on industrial tribunals and have had a significant impact on managerial practices by major employers . |
| 27 | They are binding on all academics engaged in their profession , whatever their discipline . |
| 28 | His standards are binding on all men . |
| 29 | In the GDR , the ruling Socialist Unity Party 's politburo makes policies , and decisions of higher bodies are binding on lower ones . |
| 30 | His decisions are binding on both parties , subject only to the High Court on a point of law . |