Example sentences of "be [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 2 | The Netherlandish and Dutch paintings are hung on a dull green background , the Spanish and French on light grey . |
| 3 | Balance sheet , quote for three thousand pounds to strip the existing roof covering , and basically well , they 're putting on a new roof . |
| 4 | The chart itself should be hung on a well-lit , shadow-free wall at a distance of six metres from where the subject stands . |
| 5 | Flocks need to be hung on a good wall surface . |
| 6 | With the exception of relief papers and thick fabrics like hessian or grasscloth , most of these special wallcoverings need to be hung on a smooth and level surface for a satisfactory result . |
| 7 | Events , at last , seemed to be taking on a constructive momentum of their own . |
| 8 | Drama time After recapping through still images , the teacher explains that he will now be taking on a different role . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I wo n't be putting on a different voice or anything like that , ’ he smiles , another fag clamped between his teeth . |
| 10 | All this can be put on a quantitative basis and doing so results in the celebrated condition written unc that is , the product of the uncertainties in position and momentum is always at least of the order of magnitude of Planck 's constant . |
| 11 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 12 | Now we 've shown that the sloppy approach can be put on a firm footing we shall , because of its greater familiarity , lapse into it ! |
| 13 | VAMPIRE PRESERVATION GROUP have recently acquired Sea Venom XG737 from the Wales Aircraft Museum , which will be put on a long term restoration programme after completion of the group 's Vampire T.11 and Jet Provost T.4 . |
| 14 | The first two production batches should be put on a full stability test programme at elevated temperatures and , if appropriate , at elevated humidities . |
| 15 | The information could then be put on a public register . |
| 16 | Then , feeling perhaps that things needed to be put on a proper footing , ‘ Veronica Totteridge . |
| 17 | Promising substances might then be put on a provisional list . |
| 18 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 19 | These can be taken on a full- or part-time basis , usually in FE colleges , but also in some schools . |
| 20 | The objection must be taken on a relevant ground ( subs . |
| 21 | Action to deal with offenders was to be taken on a voluntary rather than a court basis where possible . |
| 22 | Precautions had to be taken on a daily basis : draughts were mortal ; the liver constantly under threat . |
| 23 | You 'll also be taken on a full day tour of the Dordogne and its best preserved mediaeval treasures . |
| 24 | In the morning you will be taken on a guided tour of the medieval city of Lucerne . |
| 25 | You will be taken on a guided tour of the theatre including the stage , auditorium , backstage , paintshop and dressing rooms . |
| 26 | Meet Moonshake , one of the blessed few remaining non-conformist independent groups , at Aldgate and be taken on a guided tour of the Ripper 's murder-sites . |
| 27 | There are now nearly 200 National Trust shops around the country , and the town shops , which are open all year round , are taking on a new look . |
| 28 | then he 's been put on a short week ? |
| 29 | Holy Trinity 's young recruits are put on a ten-week course , followed by a residential weekend concentrating on ‘ the person and work of the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 30 | It is a preference which is relatively easy to unlearn : when patients with high blood pressure are put on a low-sodium diet , within six to eight weeks many discover that the foods they used to eat seem unpleasantly salty . |