Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the damage on user-selected sites was not as heavy as that on outfitter sites , which were almost completely devegetated , discarded rubbish was more abundant indicating that the provision of disposal facilities in the latter were effective . |
| 2 | More selective collections on specific topics are likely to be the student 's most convenient first references in searching this class of material . |
| 3 | The gradual detachment of the child from dependency on specific adults is accomplished through three principal mechanisms : a high rate of divorce , peer-group learning , and a minimization of the authoritarian aspect of the parental role . |
| 4 | Much greater detail on specific examples is contained in later chapters , but a few examples may establish more clearly the framework of the debate . |
| 5 | ‘ For the most part , the closest the citizens ever came to confronting the police on specific issues was when an occasional individual dominated the entire meeting to register a personal grievance . |
| 6 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 7 | A ban on political demonstrations was lifted on Sept. 4 , and on Sept. 5 President Mobutu Sese Seko gave an assurance that elections would be held " in three or six months " . |
| 8 | The working party 's report on political offences was being considered in late May . |
| 9 | The contrast between this complete lack of instructions and the highly detailed directives from the centre to , say , the Roslavl' uezd or the Nikol'skaia volost' party committees on political matters is striking . |
| 10 | The ban on political rallies was lifted on April 8 . |
| 11 | Censorship of literature on political grounds was by no means new as Thompson 's history shows , and both Thompson and Noyce have demonstrated that the censorship of newspapers in particular ( especially those from the hard and radical left ) is common and endemic , so why this new and specific response by the Library Association ? |
| 12 | On May 24 , 1990 , a law on political parties was passed , requiring parties to register with the Constitutional Tribunal to gain legal status and empowering that body to decide whether a party 's goals or activities were constitutional . |
| 13 | The ban on political parties was lifted on May 3 , 1989 . |
| 14 | A new Constitution for the future Third Republic was promulgated and the ban on political parties was lifted in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] . |
| 15 | A draft law lifting the ban on political parties was passed by the National Assembly after being approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate on July 5 and 23 respectively . |
| 16 | Information on reserve collections is not held centrally , but most major national and local authority-run museums and galleries hold such collections . |
| 17 | The traditional method of setting type on computer-based systems is not WYSIWYG but code driven . |
| 18 | By the beginning of the new century some of this new ideology , with its taboos on unmanly vices was certainly for export to the working class and we see the emergence of mass youth movements such as the Scouts , and the transference to the grammar schools of many of the key characteristics of the old public schools . |
| 19 | A new range of weather monitors that enable everyone to keep an eye on prevailing conditions is now available from Davis Instruments . |
| 20 | Early work on spatial languages was based upon the principles of spatial inference and retrieval , and was not specifically digitally based ( McDermott 1980 ) . |
| 21 | HIGHER taxes on multinational companies is one of the few revenue-raisers an electioneering politician can propose without instantly becoming an also-ran . |
| 22 | This , and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body , lent it much mystique for a time , ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone . |
| 23 | The purpose of the European Community 's Directive on professional qualifications is precisely to foster mobility of workers between member states . |
| 24 | For example , heparin can act as a competitive inhibitor but its usefulness for studies on intact cells is lessened because it may also inhibit the generation of InsP 3 . |
| 25 | Agreement on medium-sized cars was expected in 1990 . |
| 26 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 27 | A major reason why so many people live on low incomes is that national insurance benefits , such as old-age pensions and unemployment pay , are paid at below the income support and housing benefit levels . |
| 28 | Yes , erm I think there 's one thing which erm the general public do n't realise about council house rents and housing benefit , since we 've got this ring fence round the housing account the housing benefit which is paid to our tenants who are on low incomes is , in fact , paid by the other tenants . |
| 29 | Households on low incomes are more likely to depend upon Social Security Benefits . |
| 30 | As we have said , people on low incomes are less likely than average to use any form of credit . |