Example sentences of "be [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | While little detailed work has been undertaken to date on the nature of these population movements , preliminary research carried out by the investigator in Costa Rica in 1987 with support from the Nuffield Foundation suggests that migration patterns have been strongly differentiated along lines of gender : whereas men have tended to migrate out of Guanacastle , at least on a temporary basis , many women appear to have moved permanently to towns within the region itself . |
| 2 | In the forty-odd experimental studies that have been reported to date on periods of sleep loss longer than two days , hallucinations have been uncommon , tending to affect individuals in solitary vigils , rather than those in groups . |
| 3 | We are committed to building on the lead we have and increasing chemical and process engineering resources to drive the various projects associated with fluidics . ’ |
| 4 | We are committed to openness on environmental matters . |
| 5 | Swimmers in distress have been carried to safety on dolphins ' backs . |
| 6 | Bazoft had been sentenced to death on March 10 after a three-day trial . |
| 7 | Neamy had been sentenced to death on April 30 , charged with spying on Palestinian refugees in Iraq after allegedly admitting to working for Mossad , the Israeli secret service . |
| 8 | The second man , 20 , has been charged with possession of cannabis and Ecstasy and has been bailed to Court on July 7 . |
| 9 | Now , we 're going to work on summary skills this week , and you have summary skills already . |
| 10 | So we need to get some if we 're going to work on ordnance survey ones we 'll need to sort something on that . |
| 11 | As the medieval allegory is not among the categories into which reviewers are accustomed to fitting witty first novels by women , it is not surprising that the multi-level approach should have been attributed to indecisiveness on the part of its author . |
| 12 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 13 | She had been invited to dinner on Sunday evening by another member of her women 's group , and she had promised to take a pudding . |
| 14 | Sam did not answer her prayers because he was not near enough to hear them , having been set to work on the floor above , sweeping up . |
| 15 | Or : ‘ The Porringers are coming to lunch on Sunday . ’ |
| 16 | Altogether , four employees of the Iraqi government and three employees of the BNL had been brought to trial on Feb. 28 , following more than 18 months of investigations by US officials into illegal loans made by US banking institutions to Iraq . |
| 17 | Lord Donaldson was suggesting that the parties made an informed decision that the matter had to be referred to arbitration on the basis that they had a formulated dispute where their rights and obligations were to be determined . |
| 18 | The 1988–89 Committee was particularly anxious that as much coverage as possible should be given to Parliament on regional news and current affairs programmes , so as to improve the prospects of Members being seen at work by their constituents . |
| 19 | Which you will be opening to public on Channel Four . |
| 20 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 21 | SPELLCHECK has a dictionary of over 6000 words which can be related to text on file . |
| 22 | Indeed , many would not be sentenced to custody on conviction . |
| 23 | A good deal of this position can be attributed to discrimination on the part of employers . |
| 24 | I 'm going to sleep on it . |
| 25 | Yeah I 'm going to sleep on the settee . |
| 26 | I 'm going to work on a revolutionary kagoul that pulls itself on like the hood of a Chevy convertible , and then recedes at the touch of a button . |
| 27 | So what I 'm gon na do , is I 'm going go , give you a list of things that need to go into your diary every week , and I 'll just put the list up , and you perhaps write it under Sunday or something on there , because I 'm going to work on a five day week Monday to Friday . |
| 28 | Skinnergate and High Row will be closed to traffic on an experimental basis , despite claims the town 's disabled could be driven out of Darlington . |
| 29 | Skinnergate and High Row will be closed to traffic on an experimental basis , despite claims that disabled shoppers could be driven out of the town . |
| 30 | I thought it was rather grand to be going to supper on the boat and I wanted her to tell me all about it later but I never saw her again . |