Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They predicted that he would make friends more easily , reckoning without natural adolescent malice and the excessive value their pupils had been taught to place on modesty , however false . |
| 2 | It has been completed bang on time and within budget thanks to a special task force which was set up to lead the complex engineering job . |
| 3 | If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker . |
| 4 | Thousands of children are becoming hooked on computer games , according to a survey . |
| 5 | For example , the South West Africa Territory Force ( SWATF ) , numbering around 30,000 has been confined to base on full-pay instead of being disbanded . |
| 6 | Since then he has been permitted to search on Crown estates in Morayshire which were last excavated by the Duke of Richmond in 1860 . |
| 7 | En route for Baghdad he met Mitterrand in Paris on Jan. 11 , EC foreign ministers and also Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar ( who had been seeking to mediate on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement ) in Geneva later that day , and King Hussein of Jordan in Amman that evening . |
| 8 | While some single-parent families have an adequate income , others are poor , and some are destined to remain on welfare for very long periods . |
| 9 | Other philosophies are said to depend on science . |
| 10 | I had been born on Easter Sunday 21 years earlier and as I went into the water , I thought : ‘ Laddo , you 're going to die on Easter Sunday , too ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ We thought elegance and sophistication was n't quite enough , so we put in a lot of new stuff we 're going to use on tour . ’ |
| 12 | Be careful mind because you 're going to land on top of those bricks so be careful . |
| 13 | and they 're going to concentrate on community |
| 14 | In the BIP competition , she also achieved one of only two merits awarded in the architectural section with her photograph of the interior of the Darlington Cornmill , which she had been commissioned to take on behalf of the architects . |
| 15 | I had never been told to run on duty . |
| 16 | How they are used depends on accent , language , locality or simply the way people talk . |
| 17 | Seventy per cent of them are worried about where they are going to stay on release . |
| 18 | More English wines are beginning to appear on wine lists as growers become increasingly professional about their production and marketing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hilary gave a brief report of the VIIth International and Commonwealth Conference on Sport , Physical Education , Recreation and Dance which she had been invited to attend on behalf of the M&D Division of the C.C.P.R. It was held at the University of Queensland , in Brisbane , Australia from 23–28th September , immediately preceding the Commonwealth Games . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I admit that I have been known to curse on occasion and I often talk to my machine telling it ‘ You will not beat me so you 'd better start behaving ! ’ |
| 25 | Mr Lee , to add to his swagger , has also been hired to lecture on film at Harvard . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Tiller girls and Russ Conway are set to reappear on stage for charity … recreating the heyday of Sunday Night at the London Palladium . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Coach trips will be targeted to come on market days and the council hopes to introduce special theme days based on Darlington 's history . |