Example sentences of "be [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conclusion , our findings show that low grade , gastric MALT lymphoma can always be diagnosed on the basis of both fixed and fresh endoscopic biopsy specimens . |
| 2 | Even in the at-ease position Felix seemed to be jogging on the spot . |
| 3 | The iris is one of the longest-cultivated flowering plants , and one variety , thought to be this one , can be recognized on the wall of an Egyptian temple at Karnak dating from 1500 B.C. |
| 4 | Inarticulates can be recognized on the rock from their shiny lustre . |
| 5 | Before service , the summons may be amended on the plaintiff filing an amended request ( Ord 7 , r 17 ) . |
| 6 | Riva 's move into the UK could well be just the vanguard of a friendly invasion of quality draught continental beers which may soon be competing on the bars of UK pubs with our own traditional ales . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) That on the taking of the said accounts and inquiry costs of and incidental to proceedings on an indemnity basis are not to be disallowed on the ground that an order has already been made for costs of and incidental to those proceedings to be taxed on a standard basis unless it should appear that in making the said order the court intended thereby to deprive the defendants of the right to add those costs or some part thereof to the mortgage security . |
| 8 | It does not mean that an expert 's decision would be disallowed on the ground of conflict of interest : actual partiality would have to be shown . |
| 9 | There is also a further appeal before the court in relation to an application by the plaintiff for disallowance of interest upon the defendant 's bill of costs and er it is claimed that if interest is to be disallowed on their bill , interest should also be disallowed on the defendant 's bill of costs . |
| 10 | An indemnity basis taxation of costs that have already been taxed on the standard basis would seem to us to lead to the conclusion that the costs of the standard basis taxation were unnecessarily and unreasonably incurred and should be disallowed on the taking of the account . |
| 11 | I believe the Army should be building on the team they have here , not relocating to Glasgow . ’ |
| 12 | For example , the profits of the manufacturer introduced in Section 9.1 might be depending on the state of the market in which he sells his goods . |
| 13 | Although the steaming was successful the locomotive still has work to be undertaken on the brake gear . |
| 14 | It is not a job that can be undertaken on the basis of a business meeting of the governors once a term . |
| 15 | Today , in east London , the public are cheering the Environment Commissioner of the European Community , Carlo Ripa di Meana , for issuing a directive that no work should be undertaken on the channel tunnel rail link because the Government have not carried out an environmental assessment . |
| 16 | To be sacked on the spot , or with inadequate notice , is likely to distress even the most resilient of businessmen . |
| 17 | Vanity and a nod towards Alan Meale compel that we also include this : A short-sighted scribbler called Amos ; Recorded the gaffes of the famous ; And if ever his column ; Becomes faintly solemn ; He 'll be sacked on the spot ( who would blame us ) ? |
| 18 | Each kind of bulb has its own particular planting depth , which should be explained on the packaging or in the catalogue . |
| 19 | Justin had such confidence in the rationality of the gospel that the phenomenon of unbelief had to be explained on the hypothesis of evil spirits spreading misinformation and prejudice in the interests of polytheism and superstition . |
| 20 | This apparent third party relationship can be explained on the basis of the continued existence of the Mandate as an international status , on estoppel , and on the need to protect the rights of the inhabitants . |
| 21 | Smoking has been implicated in the development of CLO in itself and the association with cancers arising in CLO could be explained on the basis of induction of oesophageal columnar metaplasia rather than transformation from metaplasia to neoplasia . |
| 22 | McCutcheon can be explained on the basis that the terms of previous contracts had not been consistent . |
| 23 | Of course , a demand may be implied as well as express ; but , if there was no demand , could either case be explained on the ground of duress ? |
| 24 | The three properties can be explained on the assumption that a synapse will be potentiated if , and only if , it is active at a time when the region of dendrite on which it terminates is sufficiently depolarized . |
| 25 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 26 | However , the latter 's impact was extremely superficial and could be explained on the grounds of the familiarity of Koreans ‘ with the laws of their quondam masters ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Chadwick v. Chadwick , 22 L.J.Ch. 329 may be explained on the grounds that a trustee , like an agent , can not resist discovery in an action in relation to the property which he is alleged to hold on trust . ’ |
| 28 | It can not be explained on the grounds that ordinary life is just as tragic ( art is not merely imitation of life ) or by reference to moral feelings or pity and fear . |
| 29 | The narrower approach to remoteness of damage in property damage cases could be explained on the grounds that the plaintiff is likely to be insured against such damage and that the extent of the damage in such cases could be great . |
| 30 | But there is another possible kind of explanation , often more powerful , in which some linguistic feature is motivated by principles outside the scope of linguistic theory : for example , it seems possible that the syntactic processes known as island constraints ( Ross , 1967 ) can be explained on the grounds of general psychological principles ( see e.g. Grosu , 1972 ) . |