Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 2 | In Britain , 15 per cent of the 18–24-year-old population are enrolled on higher education courses . |
| 3 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 4 | about joining the airport policy consortium to making sure that members and officers views are er sort of , er officer and member representation and to make sure that Hertfordshire 's views are heard on this policy consortium because as Peter quite rightly said , erm it 's made up of members and officers of County and District Council 's South of the river and yes although their com their main intention is opposing terminal five , regrettably yes they are considering expansion at Stansted er , er far more than an alternative . |
| 5 | At first sight , this could turn out to be the bargain of the century , because the asset-values are calculated on 1991 prices , even though Russian prices rose by a vertiginous 2,600% during 1992 . |
| 6 | Holograms are placed on real Microsoft products to distinguish them from fakes ; but they , too , were being mass-produced for counterfeiters by a university in China . |
| 7 | The fund 's assets are placed on fixed deposit with AA credit-rated banks . |
| 8 | The living turtles are placed on burning coals and heated until their top and bottom shells become malleable enough to rip off . |
| 9 | Those of the dragonfly are placed on either side of the head and seem to act as horizon detectors . |
| 10 | A light source and photosensitive device photodiode , phototransistor or photovoltaic cell — are placed on opposite sides of the disc , so that the device is illuminated whenever a disc slot is in front of the light source . |
| 11 | This pattern , which echoes the scheme invented by Sylvester for the Tate Gallery more than twenty years ago and encourages a focus upon single works , is continued in the long gallery of the ground floor where paintings from 1929 to 1939 are placed on both sides of a partition wall . |
| 12 | Donkey Lane In answer to a letter sent by the chairman , the Department of Planning stated that no restrictions are placed on this road with regard to its use by horses . |
| 13 | Donkey Lane In answer to a letter sent by the chairman , the Department of Planning stated that no restrictions are placed on this road with regard to its use by horses . |
| 14 | Full details of how to enter are given on this page |
| 15 | This report was criticised because of the small number of patients studied and because patients had not been stabilised on each insulin before acute hypoglycaemia was induced . |
| 16 | 93 stations are listed on 380 frequencies . |
| 17 | On inter-island sectors when conditions are suitable , routes are flown on special VFR clearances , often not above 1,000 feet . |
| 18 | Two main kinds of European amber have been distinguished on chemical grounds . |
| 19 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 20 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 21 | The soils are developed on freshwater alluvium . |
| 22 | Nowadays , I am consulted on all matters pertaining to him , and I feel my role is to make him better known . |
| 23 | Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands ! |
| 24 | Emphasis has been placed on increasing income inequalities as a means of boosting incentives for more work effort on an individual and corporate level . |
| 25 | Whilst in the past some reliance has been placed on low melting point plastics and the thermal shock effects on asbestos cement sheeting to provide a degree of ventilation , consequential to a fire , experience indicates that such faith can be misplaced . |
| 26 | In recent years , a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment . |
| 27 | Particular emphasis has been placed on supervisory skills , multi-tasking and accreditation of competence , as well as safety and safety awareness training and graduate placement schemes . |
| 28 | It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality . |
| 29 | But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ? |
| 30 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |