Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | May as the Wardens are due to go on holiday shortly . |
| 2 | Forever anxious not to offend another cricketing nation , the Test and County Cricket Board will try until the last possible moment , before Graham Gooch 's players are due to depart on December 28 , to save the trip , even though New Zealand has offered a peaceful alternative . |
| 3 | ALTHOUGH 25m electors in England and Wales are due to vote on May 6th in the county council elections , few will bother . |
| 4 | The Law Lords are due to review on April 10th the status of the report produced by the DTi inspectors : waiting a couple of weeks would not have been an editorial disaster . |
| 5 | The premiers of the 16 Länder are due to meet on January 9th to decide what the quotas should be ( some seem inclined to be far more generous than others ) . |
| 6 | The governors are due to meet on March 31 and if the resolution is passed , a ballot will be conducted after Easter . |
| 7 | Azeri pressure was also said to be behind Turkey 's decision not to go ahead with deliveries of electricity amounting to 30-35 Mw per day , which had been due to start on Dec. 1 . |
| 8 | The trial had been due to begin on Jan. 28 , but was delayed after Noriega 's lawyers claimed that the prosecution had used procedures which threatened to deny the defendant a fair trial . |
| 9 | Proceedings had been due to resume on Monday next week , but the commission was on standby to travel down over the weekend if necessary if there was an improvement in his client 's health . |
| 10 | The Pact for Economic Stability and Growth [ see p. 37078 ] , which had been due to expire on March 31 , 1990 , was on Dec. 4 , 1989 , extended until July 31 , 1990 . |
| 11 | The mandate of the provisional President , Joseph Nerette , which had been due to expire on Jan. 8 after a three-month term , was extended indefinitely [ see p. 38523 ] . |
| 12 | Often musical ideas and phrases were taken from western records , which it has been possible to buy on the black market at high prices ( for ⅕ of the average monthly wage ) . |
| 13 | I am sorry to intrude on the debate in this way , but , before the speech of the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) , the House was addresed by the hon. Member for Ceredigion and Pembroke , North ( Mr. Howells ) . |
| 14 | Any television documentary is entirely dependent on what its participants are prepared to say on camera — the winks and nudges of written journalism can have very little place in it . |
| 15 | But they are prepared to act on the political stage according to a script which permits pragmatic compromise up to the point where further compromise would endanger the fundamental evangelical principles of the background . |
| 16 | This rule needs to be changed , so as to allow the unemployed to draw benefit as long as unemployment lasts , providing that claimants have not refused jobs they were offered without good cause , and are prepared to go on training schemes . |
| 17 | That they are prepared to take on board such a past , one must hold in awe . |
| 18 | Your decision here will obviously depend to some extent on whether you already have an aircraft radio and just how much you are prepared to spend on your first model . |
| 19 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 20 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 21 | Even if they had been willing to rely on relatives , they could not do so ( Anderson , 1977 ) . |
| 22 | He had always been willing to spend on them . |
| 23 | An England source said : ‘ Geoff has always been willing to help on an unofficial basis . |
| 24 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 25 | Other companies might have been prepared to rest on the laurels earned by the Clio and spend 1992 consolidating . |
| 26 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 27 | There are two extremes : either it can be decided that the creditors are free to distrain on trust property as on any other ; or else it may be decided that the trust property is exempt from such execution . |
| 28 | So your managers are free to concentrate on your core business — something which could be a key to your success in the difficult economic times ahead . |
| 29 | Having put these levers in their basic positions , you are free to concentrate on the three ribber controls that you 'll be using all the time . |
| 30 | It also means that other staff are free to concentrate on what he calls ‘ business logic ’ — or a customer 's business requirements . |