Example sentences of "be [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When dry , it can be painted on directly , or , if a less absorbent surface is required , it can be coated with an oil or acrylic primer paint , or a coat of white emulsion paint . |
| 2 | It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system . |
| 3 | Whilst the factual study produced considerable valuable information , there are gaps and some errors in methodology which mean that its conclusions can not be relied on exclusively in an assessment of the present procedure . |
| 4 | As a matter of interest , the printer 's pagination in one place runs 65 , 66 , 76 , 68 , 69 , 70 — reinforcing the statement that signatures should be relied on rather than page numbers when it is important to be completely sure . |
| 5 | The test therefore , from this and other evidence can not be relied on completely . |
| 6 | It is usually paid for via state-funded organisations and can at least be relied on even if it can be at times both economically and spiritually unrewarding . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the evidence is very difficult to assess ; there is not much , and what there is can not always be relied on as unimpeachably classical . |
| 8 | Community regulations and certain provisions of the founding treaties ( such as Article 30 of the EEC Treaty on free movement of goods and Article 85 of the same treaty on competition ) have direct effect , which means that they may be relied on directly by any citizen without the need for any intervening national measures to ‘ receive ’ them and indeed without any possibility for national measures to exclude or modify them . |
| 9 | While in practice the IRR is a commonly used method and usually gives the same answer as the NPV method , it can be criticized on both practical and theoretical grounds . |
| 10 | The Brownings and Ferdinando would be back in June so it would be best to go at once , when it would be more likely that her absence would be looked on leniently . |
| 11 | Junior accountants at Price Waterhouse , one of the big six firms , have been told that now is the time to take their once-in-a-lifetime world tour or perhaps a summer stint as a yacht deckhand and that applications for extended unpaid leave ‘ will be looked on favourably ’ . |
| 12 | Then , with a sudden change of mood , he shouted , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to be spied on any longer ! ’ and dashed it to the ground . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'm not going to be spied on any longer ! ’ |
| 14 | The software will have to be installed on both the portable and the server . |
| 15 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 16 | Market conditions remain difficult and rating increases continue to be applied on both the private and commercial accounts where justified . |
| 17 | ‘ They can be built on considerably less land than a golf course and the cost of construction and maintenance is reasonable . ’ |
| 18 | Surrounded by cameras , Benn announced that Hinkley C would be ‘ the first power station to be built on purely ideological grounds ’ . |
| 19 | From what we now know about the nature of meaning , a hybrid or modular account seems inescapable : there remains the hope that with two components , a semantics and a pragmatics working in tandem , each can be built on relatively homogeneous and systematic lines . |
| 20 | Shareholders will know that any subsequent bid made within three months ( or such longer period as the Panel may require in order to ensure equality of treatment for all shareholders ) may not be made on less favourable terms than the tender offer because of Rule 6.1 ( see para 7.2.3 below ) and , because the buyer will ( usually ) have acquired 10 per cent of the target 's voting rights for cash , any bid within the next 12 months must be for cash ( or include a cash alternative ) at the highest price paid by the bidder ( whether under the tender offer or in respect of market purchases ) during the 12-month period in accordance with Rule 11 ( see para 7.2.2 below ) . |
| 21 | The words ‘ reasonably satisfied ’ and ‘ substantially fewer ’ are selected deliberately ; for the alternative is so grave that the choice ought not to be made on only a narrow margin of evidence or probability . |
| 22 | Visits should be made on more than one occasion and at different times of the day or week . |
| 23 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 24 | Water-fleas and many similar animals can be fed on even smaller water animals ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 25 | Colour proofing can be done on either the QMS ColorScript PostScript printer or the HP PaintJet which is supported by the PC version through Windows . |
| 26 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 27 | Further work now requires to be done on more ‘ in-depth ’ evaluation of this involvement . |
| 28 | Most of these can be grown on successfully at a lower temperature once they have germinated . |
| 29 | Separate beads can be sewn on individually or gathered into little chains to be attached . |
| 30 | Quantum and costs information can be collected on specially designed forms . |