Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 2 | In his haste to be gone on his mysteriously urgent errand , only the briefest of exchanges had taken place between the dark Maltese and her friends , while she was being returned like a sack of damp laundry to its rightful owners … |
| 3 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 4 | Newspaper profiles are quite likely to be based on interviews , which have an immediate attraction , though a reader will naturally be wary about how accurately the interview may have been recorded . |
| 5 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 6 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 7 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 8 | Though many analysts believe the desire for Marcos 's return to be based on Filipino culture and tradition , others feel Marcos 's 20 years of corrupt rule has produced a psychologically damaged people . |
| 9 | Claims to be based on the real-life experiences of LAPD detective Jerry Beck . |
| 10 | It was to be based on the British proposals in Chicago . |
| 11 | Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing . |
| 12 | At the Haymarket he directed Alec Guinness as John Mortimer 's blind father in A Voyage Round My Father ; at the Royal Court his version of Charles Wood 's Veterans starred John Gielgud and John Mills as two film actors on location ( the play was said to be based on the filming of Tony Richardson 's Charge of the Light Brigade ) ; and at the New Theatre , Donald Sinden scored a brilliant success as an urban fop pursuing a country heiress in Eyre 's revival of Dion Boucicault 's London Assurance . |
| 13 | Any public rebuke to the BBC , still more any action , will need to be based on watertight evidence . |
| 14 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 15 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 16 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 17 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 18 | The overriding criterion — that the service of a summons is impracticable or inappropriate — does not even have to be based on objective grounds ; it is enough that it should appear to be so to the constable making the arrest . |
| 19 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |
| 20 | Initially , the view in the United States was that the refusal had to be based on good grounds — for example , religious beliefs strongly held — but the position now is moving towards the idea that ‘ individual freedom here is guaranteed only if people are given the right to make choices which would generally be regarded as foolish ones ’ . |
| 21 | The first sift has to be based on the written application , hence the need for a good form and experienced people who are able to make suitable assessments of candidates ' experience , and strengths and weaknesses against the requirements of the job . |
| 22 | However , the reluctance of sentencers to imprison women does not seem to be based on any clear principles , given the supposed principle of equality before the law . |
| 23 | In fact its main function seems to be based on intemperance . |
| 24 | It is very different , and as you can see has to be based on some knowledge or understanding . |
| 25 | So far in this book we have emphasized the need for social research to be based on scientific method . |
| 26 | The market research survey to find out what brand of toothpaste housewives prefer is not likely to be based on very much sociological theory . |
| 27 | Regional target allocations were to be based on population , weighted by age , sex and SMR ( as a proxy for morbidity ) , with compensation for treating patients from other regions by a ‘ cross-boundary flow ’ adjustment based on average cost per case by specialty applied to patient flows recorded two or three years earlier . |
| 28 | Behavioural rights are more a matter of belief than legislation since they tend to be based on conclusions which you have reached about yourself in relation to others . |
| 29 | Instead of local taxation being based on property values , it is to be based on a flat rate per capita charge levied on all adults , with limited rebates for some groups . |
| 30 | Thus those interests mobilized at the centre around the processes of production — the organized class interests of industrial and finance capital , the professions and organized labour — will differ from those organized locally , where mobilization usually cuts across class lines to be based on specific local consumption issues - council tenants , parents of under-fives and so on . |