Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , since some children in care are placed at home on trial , this explanation is blatantly false . |
| 2 | Considering that so many gliders are flown across country on every possible soaring day , the accident rate for gliding is extremely low . |
| 3 | The pupils are insulted by weakness on the part of those in authority who they expect to be strong and this weakness , once established , provokes more playing up : |
| 4 | They are intended for use on top of a work bench and are often used by the artist when in a sitting position . |
| 5 | They are intended for use on top of a work bench and are often used by the artist when in a sitting position . |
| 6 | The thinner types ( usually about 4mm thick ) are intended for use on walls , while stronger , thicker tiles ( about 9mm/⅜in thick ) are used on floors . |
| 7 | In addition , all new publications are designed for creation on the system — a subtle distinction from being designed on the system . |
| 8 | Planks ¾in thick are recommended for use on projects up to 10in diameter , but larger work will require wood 1in thick or greater . |
| 9 | MOST couples feel they are walking on air on their wedding day — but for Sellafield 's Zoe Whittle and Terry Madrick it was more than just imagination . |
| 10 | We are committed to building on the lead we have and increasing chemical and process engineering resources to drive the various projects associated with fluidics . ’ |
| 11 | We are committed to openness on environmental matters . |
| 12 | Q I wish to take up a career in outdoor activities and am looking for information on the qualifications and training needed for this kind of work . |
| 13 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 14 | The All Blacks are searching for perfection on the pitch and the physical strength and skill of their forwards leaves you with the sense that they are not far from attaining that dream . |
| 15 | Quantitative information on the British scene is hard to come by , especially if you are looking for detail on a national , ‘ transdisciplinary ’ or ‘ transministry ’ basis . |
| 16 | Police are looking for information on a Pye radio cassette stolen from a car in Hewitson Road , Darlington , serial number 9009043504 . |
| 17 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 18 | Now , we 're going to work on summary skills this week , and you have summary skills already . |
| 19 | So we need to get some if we 're going to work on ordnance survey ones we 'll need to sort something on that . |
| 20 | " We 're waiting for news on what we can expect the market to be doing tomorrow . |
| 21 | You 're putting over information on the basis that the only thing that a t an intelligent person think I 'm saying to you now , what 's going to be the effect of that on the listener ? |
| 22 | They 're talking about food on the music program . |
| 23 | If you 're sitting in judgement on every wrecked relationship from my past , I 'm fighting a losing battle with you all the way down the line ! ’ |
| 24 | Naturally enough different figures are advanced by council on either side , though that difference on this particular head of damage is not great . |
| 25 | er , six erm , I 've made a list of all the different words that are used for crap on reports right ? |
| 26 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 27 | It 's a matter of having spares for when any of them go lame , or are needed for work on the farm . |
| 28 | Those convening conferences should facilitate the attendance of parents and children by : ( i ) arranging conferences at a time convenient to parents and children as well as the professionals involved ; ( ii ) ensuring that the family are prepared for the conference by the professional worker best known to them ; ( iii ) arranging for them to meet the chair in advance ; ( iv ) ensuring that the family are briefed in advance on the issues to be raised so that they can seek advice and prepare what they have to say ; ( v ) limiting numbers to those who really need to attend ( para 6.23 ) . |
| 29 | COMPANY bosses are leading by example on pay restraint . |
| 30 | Our councils are drawn from society on the bring that into modern day life erm our councils are drawn from all sections of society the Sanhedrin purely represent representatives of the Jewish Community their elders , their leaders , their priests , their religious lay people , all were represented on this highest authority this council . |