Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not possible to assess his total output as no serious work has been undertaken on him till now . |
| 2 | Blame had n't been fastened on anyone except some unknown nutter back in the wilds of Ontario . |
| 3 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 4 | Then a new cane Kulo ( tray for dusting rice ) is taken , a big one with pictures woven into it perhaps , and the names are written on it in ink . |
| 5 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 6 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 7 | This is the thesis that women 's morality , which in certain vital respects , particularly in relation to sexual behaviour , often differs from men 's , has been imposed on them by centuries of conditioning by men . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I do n't respond to challenges that are imposed on me by others ! ’ |
| 9 | I have a deep and abiding resentment of the unfair attacks that are made on us as a profession . |
| 10 | Jessica 's interest is Rory Collins , we 're working on him at the moment . |
| 11 | The lordship had been settled on him in Edward IV 's final parliament , together with other manors of the duchy of Exeter , as part of a distribution of the duchy lands among the queen 's family . |
| 12 | The lordship had been settled on him in Edward IV 's final parliament , together with other manors of the duchy of Exeter , as part of a distribution of the duchy lands among the queen 's family . |
| 13 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 14 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 15 | Phyllis Aldworth , 64 , of Mable Avenue , Shildon , has been surviving on them for years . |
| 16 | The third main excuse for New York 's overspending is the way new tasks have been dumped on it by Albany and Washington . |
| 17 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 18 | While it was unquestionably the most important candidate for saving by the nation , if all efforts had been concentrated on it to the exclusion of others the nation would have lost Belton and Calke . |
| 19 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 20 | He fears the demands that will be made on him for reparation and ‘ the punishment and revenge that may fall on him . |
| 21 | Consider a fictitious part that might be made on them in order to go through the network . |
| 22 | Fortunately , telecommunication technology is developing almost as fast as silicon chip technology and is expected to be able to meet the demands that will be made on it by computers and microelectronics over the next few years . |
| 23 | They would rather ring for a cab for you , or even give you a lift home , than have to deal with any attack that could be made on you on your lonely way home . |
| 24 | The millennium can not be imposed on them from above . |
| 25 | It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries . |
| 26 | But you should n't be waiting on me like this . ’ |
| 27 | of Stafford , in full county court , faithfully to serve the King in his office of verderer , therefore judgment shall be pronounced on them on that account . |
| 28 | Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ? |
| 29 | To combat this recurrent worry , they had long since introduced random underpant inspections which could be sprung on us at the most absurd moment . |
| 30 | They did n't seem to be focused on anything in particular . |