Example sentences of "be [verb] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1982 ) is a revised version of a well-established North American test which has been restandardised on a sample of British children . |
| 2 | The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food . |
| 3 | For trousers , socks and shoes , the garments are placed on a stool slightly to the side of the patient . |
| 4 | In the ‘ Shadomaster ’ , samples are placed on a viewing stage and illuminated from above with a quartz-halogen projection lamp and a condenser . |
| 5 | Then the patient 's arms are placed on a table in front of him with the hands flat and fingers spread open . |
| 6 | Samples are placed on a glass tray supported on an X-Y bearing carriage . |
| 7 | In Table 1.3 figures for the trade balance in manufactured goods are given on an intra- and extra-basis for the four major industrial countries in the EC . |
| 8 | The earliest area of crofts may have been situated on a bluff west of the church , while an extended area was later laid out to the north around a triangular green , with an earlier Norman manor house going out of use at the same time . |
| 9 | However , the Directive does not apply to holdings in open-ended investment companies or other collective investment undertakings ; nor does it apply to holdings in companies incorporated outside the EC , although such companies which are listed on a stock exchange in a member state must make a public announcement of changes in major holdings of which they become aware ( even though there is no actual notification requirement ) . |
| 10 | Sterling eurobonds , which are a part of the international eurobond market described in Chapter 5 below , are normally issued as bearer securities and are usually unsecured but with a negative pledge ; they are listed on an exchange but not necessarily the London Stock Exchange and they pay interest gross . |
| 11 | Applications are developed on a PC and then sent to the target machine . |
| 12 | His expression was severe and disapproving as if he 'd just been sucking on a slice of lemon . |
| 13 | Different types of software have been placed on a continuum from machine orientated to user orientated . |
| 14 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 15 | Coils of 15-amp wire and hand tools had been placed on a groundsheet . |
| 16 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 17 | Pupils are taught on a block system , which means that they concentrate on one particular activity for a certain number of weeks , then move on to a different activity . |
| 18 | Details of the animal are registered on a certificate . |
| 19 | Sound waves bounce off them and are registered on a screen . |
| 20 | On either side gold metal had been arranged on a wood background to create abstract angels , kneeling , praying , haloed but without faces , without radiance . |
| 21 | The general twinning link between Musselburgh and Champigny-sur-Marne has been developed on a primary and secondary school level and Betty 's own Musselburgh Burgh is twinned with Marcel Cachin Primary School . |
| 22 | This sign has been painted on a piece of board and is listing badly . |
| 23 | All changes in the UK are influenced by international factors , but domestic factors are far from irrelevant ; for some changes domestic factors have a relatively great influence and international factors a relatively smaller role , while others are arranged on a scale of increasing influence of international factors . |
| 24 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co and Colorado-based Ellery Systems Inc are collaborating on a development environment for OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 26 | Two of America 's hippest and quirkiest directors , Paul ‘ Eating Raoul ’ Bartel and Gus ‘ Private Idaho ’ Van Sant , are collaborating on a feature version of the biography of prime hipster Warhol . |
| 27 | Because the presentation is diagrammatic , needing no specialist knowledge to construct or discuss , it encourages discussion between workers of different disciplines and backgrounds who are collaborating on a project . |
| 28 | But the summit craters are situated on a fissure zone , and most of the lavas that are erupted actually emerge from fissures . |
| 29 | Both of these room types are situated on a hill and reached via a flight of steep steps . |
| 30 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |