Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would mine uncle would let me have my life , though he takes my crown , ’ he had been heard to say on one occasion . |
| 2 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 3 | The reactor has been redesigned to run on low enriched uranium and its capacity upgraded from 5 to 10 megawatts . |
| 4 | Meanwhile a number of less formalised groups have been formed to advise on physical disability , learning difficulties ( separate groups for users and carers ) and HIV/AIDs . |
| 5 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |
| 6 | Adjudication officers are expected to rely on reported decisions as far as possible . |
| 7 | Erm been tending to concentrate on specific things which you know stand a good chance of being on the paper , and even if they 're not will help you with others . |
| 8 | If you are selected to go on another course , you are introduced to your dog . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Information said on March 12 that fisheries patrol boats had been instructed to fire on foreign vessels fishing illegally inside the country 's 200-mile exclusive economic zone . |
| 10 | Now if we 're going to exit on that side , where 's the best position that you would normally be in ? |
| 11 | She said we 're going to decorate on those days . |
| 12 | I 'm not out to if they 're going to claim on this diesel then that 's up to them but I 'm not going to have our lads or anybody else blamed for something which definitely does not exist and I shall tell as soon as I erm I meet him to have a chat with him again that he 's going along the wrong lines . |
| 13 | But there 's better news for Oxford fans … the club are in line for a windfall of three hundred thousand pounds which they 're going to spend on new players … |
| 14 | It 's the quality of life that we 're going to have on this planet , it 's going to be determined by that . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're having to rely on dubious testimony . |
| 16 | ‘ Hugh McCabe has maintained that trend and we 're hoping to build on that . |
| 17 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 18 | The limits and possibilities of such bargaining are shown to depend on complex interactions between the actors ' strategies . |
| 19 | Managing is unusual in the extent in which it has been shown to rely on informal information . |
| 20 | All are thought to converge on one ‘ final common pathway ’ leading to depression , in the diencephalon of the brain ‘ as a functional derangement of the neurophysiological substrates of reinforcement ’ . |
| 21 | A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this . |
| 22 | Two exhibitions open in the Hall Napoléon on 6 November and are scheduled to close on 1 February . |
| 23 | The trips run from Friday to Monday and are scheduled to depart on 12 June , and 16 October ‘ 92 . |
| 24 | In the upper gallery local community groups are invited to exhibit on local issues — current exhibition is ‘ Blocked up in Wantage ’ — the story of the town 's sewers . |
| 25 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 26 | Most of the potent drugs obtained from plants are known to act on specific physiological systems . |
| 27 | In Britain , there are two principal alternatives that have been proved to work on many occasions . |
| 28 | However , I would point out in the passing , and apropos of nothing , that mass murderers have been known to dote on tiny tots . ’ |
| 29 | This may have partly contributed to the next important influence which has been brought to bear on hearing children read — the move towards parental involvement . |
| 30 | it can be modified to run on unleaded petrol |