Example sentences of "be [to-vb] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 LOGOS of firms who sponsor Arsenal and other top clubs are to appear on the shirts of Subbuteo table soccer ‘ players ’ .
2 In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act .
3 On the next page we show how easy it will be to pile on the pounds tomorrow — and give you an alternative diet for the day .
4 The aims of the trust will be to build on the achievements , to become more responsive , to build a closer local link with the community and closer links with the health councils and with the GPs , to upgrade wards and facilities in the hospital , to upgrade theatres and equipment and to build on the success of recent years .
5 Though later liberals were to divide on the issues of the election or selection of local government officials ( with radicals in favour of popular election and conservatives for appointment of mayors and councils by the ministry ) , all liberals , in spite of lip-service to the ideal of the medieval municipality , accepted two propositions : that the Cortes , as ‘ sole representative of the sovereign nation ’ , must enforce a uniform and centralized system and that , within this system , the municipalities were ‘ subaltern corporations ’ .
6 How pleasant it is to sit on the cliffs of Dover and watch the waves rolling in .
7 Their tendency is to concentrate on the matters they understand and ignore those that they do n't .
8 Instead , the intention here is to concentrate on the coins themselves , showing their potential value as evidence for the past and , broadly speaking , how this evidence can be interpreted .
9 One way of acquiring such ideas , of course , is to look on the shelves of a library ( or bookshop ) , or in a publisher 's or library catalogue , where you will find books gathered by subject and by author .
10 We believe the main motivation for bringing in PRP is to save on the wages bill , but evidence from the private sector shows that in the short term at least it actually increases costs .
11 All that remains is to snap on the keytops and there you are with a ‘ Professional ZX Spectrum Keyboard ’ .
12 The difficulty was to agree on the proportions of atoms in particular compounds .
13 I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish .
14 Part of this task , for which he was admirably suited , was to dwell on the absurdities of enemy broadcasts monitored by the BBC .
15 One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities .
16 When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist .
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