Example sentences of "is [verb] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 2 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 3 | This , the grant-related expenditure ( GRE ) , is calculated on similar levels of service to be provided by all local authorities . |
| 4 | Emphasis is placed on one-dimensional systems , but flat plate problems are also discussed . |
| 5 | Great emphasis is placed on social skills , in the teaching of correct eating habits , dressing , and personal hygiene and care , as well as academic training . |
| 6 | It has been argued that a State may intervene , even forcibly , in the affairs of another State without violating Article 2 ( 4 ) of the United Nations Charter , or the norm of non-intervention where the intervention is justified on humanitarian grounds , for example to stop gross violations of human rights . |
| 7 | Reparation can be seen either as a desirable aim in its own right , or as a valuable but secondary aim which may be pursued when imposing punishment which is justified on other grounds ( such as reductivism ) . |
| 8 | Data is given on key issues such as the status of Berlin . |
| 9 | The tentacle pores are small , each armed with one large flap-like tentacle scale , which is pointed on proximal pores but becomes rugose on distal ones . |
| 10 | If Iran is cheating on nuclear weapons , the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to catch it at it . |
| 11 | The fact that it was proved to be an overestimate is blamed on various horrors which took place on the paper 's route to market . |
| 12 | Perhaps the key way to establish a connection between the concerns of conventional Marxist urban and regional sociology and the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 is to concentrate on typical forms of social mobility ; the ways in which they relate to spatial mobility and moral careers . |
| 13 | Each island is subject to economy-wide variations in demand as reflected in changes in the absolute price level for commodities , but news of what is happening on other islands and , by implication , of what is happening in the economy at large , takes time to filter through . |
| 14 | Disinfection is omitted on non-critical surfaces in which case the intermediate rinse becomes the final rinse . |
| 15 | The duty to carry out certain services is imposed on local authorities and as such services are of a nature affecting the whole of the country , for example , the police , or trunk roads , it has long been the practice for Central Government to assist the local authority financially . |
| 16 | Sometimes a special tax is imposed on foreign residents . |
| 17 | Parliament must be well aware of the great burden that is imposed on senior ministers , who not only take charge of their departments but also speak for them in Parliament , attend meetings of the Cabinet and its committees , and see to their constituency affairs if they are members of the House of Commons . |
| 18 | Timothy Neat directs tricksily ; the aim is to reflect on different ways of telling stories . |
| 19 | Timothy Neat directs tricksily , mixing colour and black-and-white , 35mm , 16mm and still photography , narrated and direct action ; the aim is to reflect on different ways of telling stories . |
| 20 | The Stadio Olimpico , a stone 's throw from the Tiber , is built on gladiatorial lines . |
| 21 | One consequence of this layering of different sizes and characters of nation within Europe is a political-economic and policy pyramid , which is built on shifting grounds and whose complex detail is always changing . |
| 22 | The first is built on formal procedures and standardisation to ensure a proper response to every set of circumstances while the second , a more recent form in large organisations involves temporary structures set up to solve specific detachment of individuals from the aims of the organisation as a whole and their consequent apathy . |
| 23 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 24 | Prisoners can be released , on parole , after serving only one-third of their sentence ; the decision is made on rehabilitative grounds — the offender is released when considered ‘ cured ’ and safe . |
| 25 | Rather , information is sought on broad patterns of variation across a wide social range in the urban community . |
| 26 | The effect of the Selby coalfield erm is felt on specific areas of land . |
| 27 | The prospects for establishing bad faith are very limited however , given that virtually any policy that is premised on increasing profits but which will be damaging to employees , such as a plant closure , can be portrayed as being beneficial to the employees in general , for example by making other jobs in the company more secure , thus supporting the claim that employee interests have been sufficiently considered . |
| 28 | Where modernist organization was premised on technological determinism , postmodernist organization is premised on technological choices made possible through ‘ de-dedicated ’ microelectronic equipment . |
| 29 | Japanese work organization is premised on self-managing teams rather than workers striving against each other under an individualistic and competitive payment and production system . |
| 30 | Once the PLC- γ1 is phosphorylated on specific residues ( see below ) it begins to hydrolyse PtdIns(4,5)P 2 ( labelled here as PIP 2 ) to give DAG and InsP 3 . |