Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some single-parent families have an adequate income , others are poor , and some are destined to remain on welfare for very long periods . |
| 2 | Other philosophies are said to depend on science . |
| 3 | In the meanwhile , more than 130 works from the Bremen Old Master drawings collection , also removed to the Soviet Union at the end of the war , are scheduled to go on display at the Hermitage , St Petersburg , on 18 November . |
| 4 | The membership is drawn from the various sectors of librarianship — public libraries , academic libraries , school library services and special libraries — and members are invited to serve on SPILL for a term of 2 to 3 years . |
| 5 | Members who are invited to appear on television or who write newspaper columns can have a far wider public audience and a far greater impact , even on ministers who are fellow members , than those MPs who merely speak in debates . |
| 6 | In studies of conflicts between line and staff employees , line managers are found to rely on reward and authority power bases ; staff rely on expertise and coercive power bases . |
| 7 | It 's a crisis about to get worse , because the farmers of Yarislavl are set to go on strike , if their demands are n't met , then one of the largest agricultural centres in the country will cut supplies of milk , poultry and meat . |
| 8 | The Tiller girls and Russ Conway are set to reappear on stage for charity … recreating the heyday of Sunday Night at the London Palladium . |
| 9 | The distinct issues are relatively easy to sort out in the case of associative learning but , as will become apparent in the remainder of this chapter , they are all too easily muddled when functional approaches are brought to bear on development problems . |
| 10 | Tourists are now bused in their thousands to the Sellafield Visitors ' Centre , where all the slick techniques of modern exhibitions are brought to bear on radioactivity . |
| 11 | The Good Wood Guide seal of approval is a voluntary labelling system that manufacturers are encouraged to take on board if they can honestly say that they use wood from sustainable sources — so look for the seal of approval . |
| 12 | Visits are frequent and families are encouraged to go on training courses . |
| 13 | Students are encouraged to go on placement to gain experience of the world of work in the third term of their second year . |
| 14 | The current government must recognise that it can not continue to go down the line of an individualist anxiety- ridden state , of competitive individuals where the poor and disabled are left to starve on city streets . |
| 15 | However , British members of parliament do have extensive outside interests and many are retained to act on behalf of groups . |
| 16 | Retailing Daily , for instance , declared : ‘ We are obligated to work on obsolescence as our contribution to a healthy , growing society . ’ |
| 17 | employment of a number of paid viewers who are required to report on reception , interference , etc. , as well as on the programmes themselves . |
| 18 | There is a fully-equipped diving base which conducts courses for both beginners and the advanced , with instructors who are qualified to certify on completion of the course . |