Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are accepting instructions on behalf of a partnership , it is again a good idea to check that the person who approaches you has authority to act on their behalf . |
| 2 | The Swedish diplomat 's wife had to visit American tourist places instead of English ones so I had her saying : ‘ We are going to ze Rockingfellow Centre and ve are seeing Saks on 5th Avenue . ’ |
| 3 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 4 | The university and polytechnic librarians seem to be on surer ground when they are producing guides on literature search strategies , or guides to the preparation of bibliographical references or guides to the preparation of projects and theses : that is , when they are writing guides to library and information techniques . |
| 5 | And over the past eighteen months several agencies , among them the International Fund for Ireland and LEDU , have begun to have a presence in the most economically underdeveloped areas and to make claims about how they are targeting resources on places like West Belfast . |
| 6 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 7 | PERSONNEL Personnel chiefs are gaining seats on company boards |
| 8 | Mark & I are driving south on Thursday , and as today 's an Edinburgh holiday , it will mean a 2–day working week for one ! |
| 9 | Over the five years of TRANSAID 's operations the most recurring need has been to provide advice on transport management and control . |
| 10 | The Government are promoting action on animal welfare in the European Community , based on the high standards in this country . |
| 11 | Honecker 's transfer — made without German permission on March 13 — had been made public on March 14 . |
| 12 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |
| 13 | Diverted traffic has been causing chaos on roads . |
| 14 | Officers are recommending meals on wheels rises from 85p to 90p and lunches from 90p to 95p from November 1 . |
| 15 | This year , we 're spending £100,000 on books — over three times more than when we opted out . ’ |
| 16 | Euro Cities is a group of independent cities who 're putting pressure on Brussels to maintain funding in urban areas after the review of the structural funds in 1993 . |
| 17 | Euro Cities is a group of independent cities who 're putting pressure on Brussels to maintain funding in urban areas after the review of the structural funds in 1993 . |
| 18 | Er , and we are not in terms of any comparative statistics that are providing costs on management and support in any way a high spender vis a vis other local authorities , . |
| 19 | And you can start on the new water tablets which are called Frusamide on Thursday . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 21 | a while to transpose , I 've been printing stuff on card recently , |
| 22 | Even Yoko Ono ( noticeably absent from Gravity and Grace , who had been installing contraceptives on plinths and wrapping chairs in London in the 1960s , repeated a 1962 happening in Kynaston McShine 's Information exhibition at MOMA in 1970 : ‘ Draw an imaginary map … |
| 23 | I mean , I can only have fo lunchtime with Claire , like , I 've been having tomatoes on toast and some . |
| 24 | WHITEHALL chiefs are to keep tabs on phone calls made by civil servants in office time . |
| 25 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 26 | We are doing research on women in science , in conjunction with General Electric Company , for our masters ' theses at the London School of Economics . |
| 27 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 28 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 29 | Teachers would be trained on an Institution of Environmental Health course and schools would be given booklets on food safety . |
| 30 | I 'm doing company , and I 'm contacting Julian on Tuesday . |