Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 2 | Classic ethnographic studies of all-male interaction have tended to focus on street gangs and ritual verbal performances , whereas studies of all-female interaction are more likely to focus on small , intimate groups . |
| 3 | Definitions are sometimes hard to grasp on first reading . |
| 4 | Such disparate allegiances are more likely to agree on what they oppose than in what they support . |
| 5 | As you will have gathered the images are too big to put on floppy disks . |
| 6 | While many visitors are simply content to unwind on the beach or indulge in a little holiday sport and activity , others have the opportunity to gain a better insight into the history and customs of this beautiful region . |
| 7 | In a world of integrated capital markets , countries are often unwilling to reflate on their own , when they might be willing to reflate in concert . |
| 8 | A chief constable is perfectly entitled to insist on being informed when a member of his force writes to the press on matters appertaining to his force . |
| 9 | After years of waiting , building work is now due to start on Stream Bank Cottage . |
| 10 | Although Conklin is absolutely right to concentrate on the economic dimension of corporate crime , for ultimately it is always about money , it does obscure the fact that in pursuing economic goals there are physical as well as economic impacts , and these are sufficiently important to demand inclusion in any conceptualization . |
| 11 | but Christine it 's gon na be arranging that desk is gon na take a whole er oh arranging the bedroom is gon na take a whole day cos you 're wardrobe is too heavy to move on it 's own it 's got to be taken apart |
| 12 | There has been some suggestion that parents are more likely to argue in front of their sons than their daughters ; that a disturbed parent is more likely to pick on a son than a daughter ; and that mothers may transfer negative experiences with their husband into negative expectations of their sons . |
| 13 | The concept that AEA is now able to stand on its own feet as a business is a huge achievement , based on where we were in 1988 . |
| 14 | Eva was too busy concentrating on the first foothold to wonder what she had done with it . |
| 15 | Meeting on 3 May , the Executive Committee was again unable to agree on the appointment of a curator for the Visual Arts section . |
| 16 | One of Warner 's principal opponents was a dealer called Jay Hammond ; not least because Hammond was also happy to deal on the wrong side of the law . |
| 17 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 18 | Feminist psychologists are often reluctant to call on psychoanalysis . |
| 19 | They took the fish to an unaffected stretch of canal 150 yards away and realising bigger fish were still distressed returned on Thurday to finish the job . |
| 20 | The computer program will dominate at such times and promote considerable activity ; the teacher is then free to concentrate on management and coaching activities , and a discussion of tactics . |
| 21 | In a preface to one of my favourite sketches , ‘ First Flight ’ , Joyce wrote : ‘ Goodness is almost impossible to show on stage . |
| 22 | The value they place on your business is more likely to rest on an independent assessment than on your balance sheet and projections . |
| 23 | The importance of such an outcome is very different depending on where in the causal chain the third variable comes . |
| 24 | Permfax is always ready to advise on pools problems , large or small , but only if a stamped addressed envelope is enclosed for his reply . |
| 25 | The body was too large to bring on board , so the head was cut off and preserved in a pickling vat aboard the Monongahela . |
| 26 | Drachenfels enjoyed watching his magically created puppets humiliate and denigrate his ‘ guests ’ , an immature pleasure but a pleasure nonetheless , and the puppets are very eager to put on another performance after so long inactive . |
| 27 | They argue that Egyptians are too passive to revolt on their own . |
| 28 | The main reason why the US market is so much more competitive appears to be tradition : American consumers are accustomed to hunting out bargains and buying on price , whereas Europeans are more likely to buy on brand name . |
| 29 | Your wife is quite wrong to rely on corporal punishment to instil good behaviour . |
| 30 | Their menu is authentically Italian based on pizza and pasta dishes and all main course dishes are homemade at each unit . |