Example sentences of "be [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will she also emphasise that we are building on success and , to this end , will she give the House the figures for 1988 , 1989 and 1990 on the proportion of American and Japanese investment in the EC which came to Britain ? |
| 2 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 3 | Other things being equal it appears that those remanded in custody are more likely to plead guilty , substantially less likely to be acquitted and very much more likely to receive a custodial sentence on conviction than their counterparts who are remanded on bail ( see , eg , Bottomley , 1970 ; Davies , 1971 ; and also Home Office , 1990f , Tables 9.6 and 9.9 ) . |
| 4 | On Easter Monday , Belgian police raided a ship equipped for incinerating waste at sea , the Matthias II , in Antwerp harbour , The raid followed reports in the Italian press that the waste , which contains 300 grams of dioxin ( TCDD ) had been incinerated on board a Dutch ship in the North Sea . |
| 5 | Although the inquiry had resulted in the successful prosecution of several former Reagan administration officials , convictions against the two highest-profile defendants — former National Security Advisor John M. Poindexter and his aide , Oliver L. North — had been overturned on appeal . |
| 6 | Had the plane been recalled on account of bad weather and plunged into the sea ? |
| 7 | Frequently , squeaks and crackles over the posterior lung lobes are heard on auscultation . |
| 8 | Consumer protection laws are justified on efficiency grounds , in order to prevent consumers making unwise decisions because of insufficient knowledge of firms ' products . |
| 9 | What expectations are placed on quantity compared to quality of work that you do ? |
| 10 | Pressure by environmentalists in the US has meant that that country has exerted some control over the industry by insisting that observers are placed on board US-registered boats . |
| 11 | The important event in container shipping occurs not when the goods are placed on board the vessel , but when the goods are taken charge of by someone entrusted with the ‘ door to door ’ carriage of the goods , including , when appropriate , vessel carriage . |
| 12 | Lastly to make the picture more realistic , some crew are placed on board , and on the floating pontoons . |
| 13 | Further bars are placed on top of the joists , and 19mm Gypoc plank is screwed to the underside , the floor is 19mm Gypoc plank laid in the channel , with floor boards screwed to the channel flanges |
| 14 | Timbers are placed on top of the existing roofing , secured through the existing roof covering into existing supports . |
| 15 | The whole church is based on a skeleton framework , the supporting roof poles are placed on top of the intersecting ground sills and there are cross beams on top of the poles . |
| 16 | These are placed on top of a complete pudding basin cake made in the normal way . |
| 17 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 18 | Certain specialist titles are circulated to the appropriate officers or sections on arrival ; all other general titles are placed on display and most are available on loan . |
| 19 | Certain limitations are placed on property damage . |
| 20 | It was clear that Thomas Grenfell had made more than his share of mistakes , it seemed that The Fine Leather Trading Company had been overspending on labour and without the expected turnover in goods moved and sold . |
| 21 | Increased productivity is equally the responsibility of management , who must ensure that materials , plant and scaffolding are available and in the right location , adequate instructions are given on time , the work place is prepared and the programme of work for other trades correlated and integrated . |
| 22 | Contradictory messages are given on diet , fitness and health in general — for example the advice on coffee , butter or even jogging , may change from week to week . |
| 23 | Screening tests for vision are given on average three times during a child 's life . |
| 24 | Details of the programme are given on page 62 . |
| 25 | Eat the daily quantity of Fibre-Filler — the ingredients and amounts are given on page 65 . |
| 26 | If you can not find it locally , contact Humber direct — the details are given on page 267 . |
| 27 | The answers are given on page 100 , but to start you off : how many management tiers does this organisation have ? ) |
| 28 | Full details of the Conference speakers are given on page 48 . |
| 29 | Details of new Professional Development Awards in engineering practice and in building are given on page 3 . |
| 30 | This is important because hardware measurements will affect your calculations as you will see from the more detailed instructions for measuring curtains which are given on page 63 opposite . |