Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] on a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the BRAC workers had collaborated more closely with the village practitioners , then the lobon-gur solution would probably have been placed on a better footing in the Bangladeshi villages . |
| 2 | Some seem to have been rebuilt on a larger scale , presumably to cater for a more centralised population ; an example may be Wharram Percy in Yorkshire . |
| 3 | ( The questions are based on a fuller questionnaire by Horne J. A. and Ostberg O. ( 1976 ) . |
| 4 | He had been born on a Junker estate at Schönhausen in Brandenburg in 1815 , and his family had moved to Kniephof in Pomerania soon afterwards . |
| 5 | The body of Nikandre 's statue is as formally constructed as the head , and similar clothed bodies with Daedalic heads are found on a smaller scale in many materials : terracotta , bronze , ivory , gold-relief . |
| 6 | The use of the molten salt cycle has been proved on a smaller scale at the department 's Sandia National Laboratory at Albuquerque , New Mexico , which has already spent $39 million . |
| 7 | In addition , the principle ‘ that relief given under the Poor Law should be sufficient for the purpose of relieving distress , but that the amount of relief so given should of necessity be calculated on a lower scale than the earnings of the independent workman ’ ( Ministry of Health , 1921 , p. 47 ) still stood . |
| 8 | These questions will be considered on a broader canvas in section 8.7 below . |
| 9 | In addition , more specialist services such as those for mentally abnormal offenders , where there are usually only one or two expert practitioners in a large district , often have to be organized on a larger scale than is ideal for patients , simply because there is no other practical way of making the service available to everyone who needs it . |
| 10 | However , Poulantzas is emphatic that the two are interconnected , and his claim seems to be founded on a further belief about class position . |
| 11 | The results of this small-scale enquiry also pointed to a number of issues relating to enterprise generation and growth in rural areas which might fruitfully be researched on a larger scale . |
| 12 | Indeed , they see incineration as a solution to toxic waste whose usefulness should be employed on a greater range of materials . |
| 13 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |
| 14 | You start moving men about from one job to another , and they start complaining , or demanding to be put on a higher grade . |
| 15 | In this situation , it is worth comparing in detail the advantages of continuing the development of the unit exactly as required but on a limited range of systems , as against modifying the design so that it can be implemented on a wider range . |
| 16 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |
| 17 | The forms of industrial conflict whereby workers ' interests are mobilised on a broader front include strikes and other kinds of industrial action , and here the role of trade unions as workers ' official representatives comes into play . |
| 18 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 19 | This has been the experience of power companies in the United States , where such schemes have been tried on a larger scale . |
| 20 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |
| 21 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 22 | This year 's festival is sited on a grassier area and Runrig 's confirmation should leave the organisers , London 's Mean Fiddler and Edinburgh promoter 's Regular Music , with no worries about selling plenty of tickets . |
| 23 | The sociological variant combines similar scepticism with an analysis of medical power and its effects and is based on a wider critique of the professions and professionalism . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the anxiety that still persists in Staffordshire about the fate of the Staffordshire regiment is not mere local and parochial concern but is based on a wider concern for the strength of the infantry ? |
| 25 | This chapter concentrates on these three national clearinghouses already established , and is based on a longer paper on the subject . |
| 26 | The far end of the room was built on a higher level than the rest , and was reached by a single step . |
| 27 | Along with the spread of the RCM organisation across the country , the head office was put on a firmer footing with the purchase of Bloomsbury House , the former Palace Hotel just off London 's Bedford Square . |
| 28 | Under Mr Coates , the British-equity business was put on a sounder basis — first by carefully working out the profitability of each of its institutional clients and , second , by then sacking a fifth of its British-equity team . |