Example sentences of "[verb] be on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Brain , the team 's only international , has been on the point of resigning both as a player and as the club 's salaried steward , and his decision will not be known until today . |
| 32 | The Congress 's disarray — radical democrats argue that it should be disbanded — has been on embarrassing display this week as deputies argued over what to call their state . |
| 33 | Ever since then , Labour has been on the defensive , both ideologically and demographically . |
| 34 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
| 35 | The main emphasis of the HIDB has been on halting depopulation by the saving and creation of employment . |
| 36 | Also , much of the money for the campaign has come from the community itself , and where outside groups have provided assistance , either financially or otherwise , it has been on the terms of the YCCC rather than anyone else . |
| 37 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 38 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 39 | Indeed , in most examples , the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction . |
| 40 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 41 | So far in this discussion the emphasis has been on the voluntary nature of the ‘ obligations ’ of the active citizen , which is to be encouraged through the educational system and in other ways about which , it must be said , there is fairly broad agreement across the political spectrum . |
| 42 | In the case of Thailand , legislation has been on the statute books for at least twenty years , but its Constitution of October 1976 and Interim Constitution of November 1977 contain no mention of environmental protection at all , as also is the case of the Philippines ( Shane , in MacAndrews and Chia Lin Sien , eds. 1979 ) . |
| 43 | India has a number of diseases all her own , but if there is any suggestion that a foreign filly has been on the loose in a British stud she is rejected as unclean . |
| 44 | The show was commissioned by the Rochdale Art Gallery in 1987 , staged there in '89 and has been on the road since then . |
| 45 | ( And before you shudder at the thought , may I , as someone who has been on the receiving end , assure you that it does not hurt . |
| 46 | The possibility that the CAB basic training course should become a recognised certificated qualification has been on the agenda . |
| 47 | However , the emphasis in LMS training has been on a whole-school approach , with governors , teachers , office staff , cleaners , caretakers , technicians , ancillary staff and LEA representatives working together for a full day in a particular school . |
| 48 | Ever since the first public park was opened at Ormeau on Easter Saturday 1871 , the commitment to providing public open space has been on the increase . |
| 49 | Rather , the emphasis has been on reviewing health authority performance on a more aggregate level , through the development of performance indicators ( DHSS , 1983 ) , supported by the review process . |
| 50 | However , the emphasis in the project so far has been on formulating these individual solutions rather than on co-ordinating them . |
| 51 | The chief emphasis has been on instructing children in the use of the library and to a lesser extent on the promotion of reading amongst schoolchildren . |
| 52 | The British Library Research and Development Department , which , along with the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales and the Schools Council , has funded most of this research , is aware of that problem , and using a standing committee called the Discussion Group on User Education in Schools , it is endeavouring to bring the research into general practice , and even to extend the influence of the work into other levels of education , eg primary schools ( the concentration has been on secondary education so far ) . |
| 53 | Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design . |
| 54 | The new ship , which has been on the drawing boards since the late 1970s , will be a research vessel . |
| 55 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 56 | Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA . |
| 57 | But this CD has been on my player many times since it arrived . |
| 58 | More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging . |
| 59 | Thirdly , some of the legislation has been on the statute books for a considerable time , perhaps long after the original and primary intention of the law had been forgotten , e.g. the Vagrancy Acts of 1824 and 1838 . |
| 60 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |