Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as cereals , root crops — particularly potatoes and sugar beet — are widely grown on the best arable land , whilst in areas nearer the big cities , vegetables are most profitable , particularly on well-drained sandy loams . |
| 2 | They are widely used on the large-scale , a familiar example being the cup anemometer used in everyday meteorological applications . |
| 3 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 4 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 5 | For example , one text which has been widely circulated on the extreme right in recent years is Gary Allen 's None Dare Call It Conspiracy . |
| 6 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 7 | Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years . |
| 8 | This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland . |
| 9 | The incidents at Coed Glas have been widely blamed on the lack of secure accommodation in Wales . |
| 10 | A famous example of the importance of checking whether the so-called facts are right occurred on the occasion of Charles II founding the Royal Society in 1660 . |
| 11 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 12 | where , despite the fact that the writ has not been duly served on the defendant , he acknowledges service of it ; |
| 13 | It is important to ensure that only current partners appear as lessees/trustees of partnership premises , if only to avoid any possibility that a retired partner who has not been duly replaced on the title could be regarded as still being held out as a member of the firm . |
| 14 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
| 15 | These are mostly based on the 8th note triplet groove but are usually written as 12/8 grooves . |
| 16 | While standards have become tighter for landfills and incinerators , they are rarely imposed on the plants at which recycled materials are sorted for reprocessing . |
| 17 | Nevertheless it should again be stressed that decisions about weeding programmes and/or new building programmes are rarely made on the basis of such calculations . |
| 18 | Appointments are rarely made on the basis of professional or technical competence alone . |
| 19 | And of course the peoples of the world are intensely divided on the issue . |
| 20 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 21 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 22 | Comments are especially sought on the following : |
| 23 | We are basically settled on the areas that we want to service . |
| 24 | His attention had been fiercely concentrated on the back of the girl as she had slowly walked away , his blue eyes narrowed in appreciation . |
| 25 | Geopetal sediments in stromatactoid cavities , for example , may be difficult or impossible to see on unetched , polished surfaces ( Fig. 4.2a ) , but are clearly seen after etching ( Fig. 4.2b ) , although other features are better revealed on the polished surface . |
| 26 | I find that these people who are so called on the cheap that the product is not very good , well if you say say you call it by one of them |
| 27 | Parishioners of Saint John the Baptist are so divided on the issue that the dispute is having to be resolved at a church court . |
| 28 | Sometimes , one finds it hard to understand why Americans are so disliked on the sports field . |
| 29 | I am merely reporting on the fate to have befallen every other Minister for Sport you can care to mention which is one of the reasons why we are still debating the kind of football stadiums we should have for the future when every other country besides Botswana and the Cocos Islands have already built theirs . |
| 30 | Other notable examples include the Church at Znojmo and S. Maurice at Olomouc , though the latter has been much altered on the exterior ; it has a hall church interior . |