Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 2 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 3 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 4 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 5 | The tokens are given only on completion of a specified desirable behaviour . |
| 6 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 7 | Treaty does not preclude a nationality requirement of the type at issue in the main proceedings , because discrimination on grounds of nationality can arise only where , under the law of a member state , persons are treated differently on account of their nationality . |
| 8 | He , however , looks rough before he shaves and dresses , demonstrating the still prevailing differences between the way men and women are treated aesthetically on screen . |
| 9 | Lodgement till on slopes and ‘ crag and tail ’ landforms are developed locally on North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |
| 11 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |
| 12 | Over 5,000 students are registered worldwide on the Masters programme , the majority studying the Distance Learning MBA . |
| 13 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 14 | Leaves which are small , round or elliptic , fleshy , glossy , bright green , tapering towards the base without leaf-stalks , are arranged opposite on a stiff , round , fleshy stem . |
| 15 | Shooting title cards , which have to be specially prepared , set up and lit , is a skilled activity in itself , and the techniques are explained fully on page 149 . |
| 16 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 17 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 19 | Great bolts of cloth are tucked away on ledges |
| 20 | They are catching up on Daedalus and he will have to go into strict training for a swifter sprint . |
| 21 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 22 | The defendants are to appear again on January 12 . |
| 23 | THE sons of two members of 60s rock band Cream are to appear together on a new album to be released in January . |
| 24 | But some changes are blamed unfairly on abstraction . |
| 25 | Continents are carried passively on moving sectors of plates which also embrace ocean floor ; they do not ‘ drift ’ across the latter ( Fig. 18.2 ) . |
| 26 | Did you realise that 43 per cent of all sociological surveys are carried out on the M1 , M4 and M6 ? |
| 27 | However , many market research studies are carried out on large samples which would be beyond the reach of academic researchers and it is not unusual to find commercial surveys which contain quite valuable social information . |
| 28 | Today , the importance of good sampling becomes more important as more and more surveys are carried out on sample bases . |
| 29 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |
| 30 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |