Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent study by INSERM , the national institute of health and medical research , revealed that French specialists are under-represented on the editorial boards of medical reviews in relation to the strength of French biomedical research . |
| 2 | ( d ) The reverse of the above , so that it is the children who are marooned on the alien planet , the teacher who is the alien offering them passage back to earth providing the children can explain the way of life on earth . |
| 3 | The 17-strong group , whose ages start at about 18 but are well-balanced on the 40-plus side , have been tapping the boards at Anstey Junior School on Tuesdays since September . |
| 4 | The Government have made their public expenditure plans absolutely clear , and they are clear on the normal basis . |
| 5 | Most of the women who are high on one measure are high on the other , and those who are low tend to show the same symmetry . |
| 6 | Can you remember for example , given the the levels of relief you are advocating are acceptable on the blue route , how such roads such a link as an alternative to the western link would perform . |
| 7 | This question only arises if I am wrong on the main point of principle , but I think it proper to consider it nonetheless . |
| 8 | They do n't have the resources or the clout , and the way in which the game has developed and has been structured in South Africa means they are dependent on the financial patronage of the six major urban unions — a new SARFU or not ! |
| 9 | Interest rates are dependent on the agreed length of time as well as the size of the deposit . |
| 10 | Let us call to mind the ‘ representative firm ’ , whose economies of production , internal and external , are dependent on the aggregate volume of production of the commodity that it makes ; and , postponing all further study of the nature of this dependence , let us assume that the normal supply price of any amount of that commodity may be taken to be its normal expenses of production ( including gross earnings of managements ) by that firm . |
| 11 | Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation . |
| 12 | As the better council housing is sold off , those that are dependent on the public sector for their housing will be increasingly relegated to the worst estates . |
| 13 | Mass production systems are dependent on the high demand created by mass markets , for it is only by making the fullest use of the capital equipment involved that a manufacturing organization can achieve its target profit levels . |
| 14 | We could grasp that he was trying to tell us we had arrived at some sort of geological shift , much like the Wallace Discontinuity east of Bali , where two tectonic plates meet and flora and fauna are different on the two opposed sides . |
| 15 | This is why futures contracts are known as derivative securities , because they are derivative on the underlying cash market good . |
| 16 | Festival events at the Grand Opera House are bookable on the same postal booking form , which should be sent to Festival House . |
| 17 | These arches are visible on the exterior wall surfaces . |
| 18 | Please note : Extra week offers are only applicable to basic room only ; any supplements for single rooms , full board etc. are payable on the whole holiday ( extra week included ) and will be automatically added to your invoice . |
| 19 | But it does not follow that there may not be a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand in requiring the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) where it is obligatory for him to do so because one of the circumstances specified in section 7(3) has arisen , and on the other hand in informing the driver of his right under section 8(2) to claim that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol should be replaced by a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) . |
| 20 | But as I have said earlier , I do not think this necessarily precludes a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand where it is necessary to explain to the driver his right to claim a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) and what the exercise of that right involves and , on the other hand , where the driver is obliged , subject to any rights of objection , to provide the specimen the constable requires . |
| 21 | Now have a look at your diary and see if you 're free on the fifteenth of June , Saturday fifteenth June for the Stella Artois competition . |
| 22 | Oh I do n't know about that but I think they 're likely on the same |
| 23 | Erm I think you 're okay on the basic functions . |
| 24 | ‘ That was my business partner Paul ; he and his wife are here — or rather they 're almost here — they 're stuck on the wrong side of your jeep . |
| 25 | you can see them on Sunday they 're live on the Central Match … its Derby away at the Baseball Ground … |
| 26 | So er er that that is if we 're up-to-date on the financial . |
| 27 | Here , the round arches are predominant on the lower storey of both nave and tower and pointed arches above . |
| 28 | The fish gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 29 | The Vampire Plec gets its name from the unusual formation of the teeth which are elongated on the upper and lower jaws near the middle of the mouth . |
| 30 | Insectivorous shrews are confined mainly to the forest-tundra and tundra edge ; only the arctic shrew and masked shrew , both holarctic species , are widespread on the southern tundra , and none penetrates far to the north ( Bee and Hall , 1956 ) . |