Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Baldwin 's unconventional move has generated immense interest , and he has been interviewed twice on Central Television and on radio , and has been profiled in his local newspaper . |
| 2 | An analogy can be drawn with study of the law of contract : books are written both on particular types of contract , such as contracts of agency or sale , but also on the general principles of the law of contract . |
| 3 | Hire-purchase controls may have serious disruptive effects on certain industries ( e.g. cars and other consumer durables ) , whose products are bought largely on hire-purchase credit . |
| 4 | No one who seriously appreciates sport believes that even the most overtly physical sports are founded solely on physiological characteristics . |
| 5 | They thus each require the pp , as their parts are copied either on separate sheets or at any rate on separate lines on the same sheet . |
| 6 | A prototype has been used successfully on human gall stones introduced into swine gall bladders . |
| 7 | Examination methods and timetables naturally differ from course to course but , in general , candidates are assessed both on written examinations and on course work during the year . |
| 8 | But the Fed 's timing may not have been based entirely on domestic considerations . |
| 9 | This was remarkably precise and remarkably misleading and seems once again to have been based essentially on Chinese communist capability . |
| 10 | These are based largely on existing historical studies and usually offer a good overview of a period or topic . |
| 11 | Scientific fears are based mainly on suggested risks which might arise from releasing new organisms into the environment , whether they are plants , animals , bacteria or viruses . |
| 12 | Doubts have been raised both on ethical and scientific grounds . |
| 13 | The environment is also a high priority for CAC and £2m ( 10 per cent of the project cost ) has been spent directly on environmental concerns with the installation of scrubbers and other cleaning techniques in the Pergascript plant . |
| 14 | Femur : As in the pelvis , sex has been judged both on morphological and metrical grounds . |
| 15 | One is that policies which are focused primarily on small firms are likely to encourage only a relatively low level of technical innovation . |
| 16 | Now , it appears that they are to take great pride in the fact that we are spending more on public services , and it is right to acknowledge that . |
| 17 | A spokesman said the fur ban had been introduced purely on commercial grounds . |
| 18 | Not only was the Institute 's working party on small company audits unrepresentative ( seven of its eight members were in practice ) , but the subsequent circulation of and debate on the consultation paper has been concentrated mainly on practising members . |
| 19 | We need first to make clear that we are focusing here on searchable , electronic databases , information structures which offer a potentially networked service to users . |
| 20 | Induction can not be justified purely on logical grounds . |
| 21 | Constraints like referential integrity can be placed automatically on new data entered into the system and on updates to existing records . |
| 22 | Problems such as industrial pollution , traffic congestion , or indiscriminate nature of military technologies , will be blamed either on inadequate policies or insufficiently sophisticated technologies . |
| 23 | Poor productivity , according to the DTI , is to be blamed partly on bad management of the workforce and partly on lack of investment ( which is bad management in another form ) . |
| 24 | It is not so much a book for reading as a book to which reference can confidently be made both on general matters and on points of detail . |
| 25 | At Cosmeston the manorial garden and dovecot have been found in the field south-west of the manor house : they can be seen clearly on aerial photographs . |
| 26 | These can only be answered tentatively on present evidence . |
| 27 | For most domestic applications , a 75mm ( 3in ) seal is required ; shallow traps ( 38mm to 50mm or l½in to 2in ) should be used only on two-pipe systems where there is limited space — under a bath or shower tray , for instance . |
| 28 | Tamodine ( by VetArk ) , is recommended , but remember that it should be used only on individual fish , never add to the pond . |
| 29 | That would have broken his oath never to use violence , Mr Waite said in an interview to be shown tonight on American television . |
| 30 | The present rate for the Earth is such that a crater over 10 km diameter is very likely to be produced somewhere on dry land at some time over the next 200 000 years . |