Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you end the contract for any reason during the trial period , you will be treated as having been dismissed on the date when your original job ended .
2 More than one appeal concerned solely with the scale rather than the principle of whether there should be any development , has been dismissed on the grounds that the site was unsuitable for any development at all .
3 Dogan , a nephew of the President and a leading conservative in the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) , was described by official sources as having been dismissed on the President 's orders " apparently over a rift in domestic politics " .
4 The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness .
5 Many EEC students are enrolled on the Course , usually either as one year exchange or private associate students ; but a small number seek full degree programmes .
6 You can work through the open learning material whether or not you are enrolled on the programme .
7 1982 ) is a revised version of a well-established North American test which has been restandardised on a sample of British children .
8 Expected numbers of cases are calculated on the assumption that the true rates are the same as those for England and Wales .
9 These are calculated on the value of the investments held in the trust ( measured on their own offer and bid prices ) , the brokerage costs and stamp duty .
10 Monthly repayments are calculated on the difference between the selling price ( less the deposit ) and this final payment .
11 This is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level , though we must bear in mind that these expectations are calculated on the basis of a purely random distribution of sites , which may not be quite true in practice .
12 Payments are calculated on the basis of the worker 's age , length of continuous service , and pay .
13 They are a form of taxation levied on local property , and are calculated on the basis of the rent at which the property might reasonably be let .
14 BILL Wade , the Lib Dem in Bishop Auckland , has been joined on the stump by an out and out Tory his brother Harry .
15 They had been joined on the site by the police marksmen .
16 Indeed , many vertical mergers are justified on the basis of internalising such information and transaction costs with the hope of reducing such costs .
17 It means that if you are placed on a YTS programme through Compact , you have a real job .
18 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 .
19 For trousers , socks and shoes , the garments are placed on a stool slightly to the side of the patient .
20 In the ‘ Shadomaster ’ , samples are placed on a viewing stage and illuminated from above with a quartz-halogen projection lamp and a condenser .
21 Then the patient 's arms are placed on a table in front of him with the hands flat and fingers spread open .
22 Samples are placed on a glass tray supported on an X-Y bearing carriage .
23 If the surgeon believes that they would benefit from an operation , their names are placed on the waiting list and they are asked to come into hospital when a bed is available .
24 Possible extensions to active word edges are not added to the Chart as soon as they are found but are placed on the Agenda .
25 1984 ; Schmitt 1982b ) but the one most often used in Britain consists of two pads of wire mesh that are placed on the child 's bed with a sheet separating them and another sheet on top for the child to lie on .
26 Bricks or stones are placed on the overlap and water filling is then started by means of a hose .
27 Laws have been passed to restrict the use of the ‘ rolling hook' ’ fishing method , in which groups of large unbaited hooks are placed on the river bed , with the intention of impaling large catfish .
28 All the living and bedrooms are placed on the south side , facilitating the effective area of plain wall on the north .
29 The stakes are placed on the board , one for each honour and the game , two for ‘ Matrimony ’ ( King and Queen of trumps ) , two for ‘ Intrigue ’ ( Queen and Knave ) , and six for ‘ Pope Joan ’ ( the nine of diamonds ) .
30 The disadvantages are the limitations that are placed on the observer who can only gain a limited amount of information without intruding and thus altering the spontaneity of the behaviour .
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