Example sentences of "[is] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 2 | Streamlined for swimming , much of the energy used in walking is squandered on side-to-side motion . |
| 3 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 4 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 5 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 6 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 7 | A third reason why dieting makes you fat is because fat is less metabolically active than muscle … the one sure way to slow the body down and so create the conditions for getting fat is to go on a diet |
| 8 | THE WORLD 'S third incompatible videodisc system , VHD , is to go on sale in Japan on 21 April . |
| 9 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 10 | THE world 's strongest beer — more than 17 per cent alcohol — is to go on sale by Christmas at pubs owned by London-based brewery Firkin . |
| 11 | The Tale of the Nail is to go on national tour in October , accompanied by workshops and teaching materials . |
| 12 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 13 | ‘ My job is to go on stage and make people forget about their problems — I do n't want to tell them about mine . ’ |
| 14 | SERIOUSLY Fun , an exhibition of models made out of Lego toy building bricks , is to go on show at Bersham Heritage Centre , near Wrexham , from June 26 August 22 . |
| 15 | Visitors from all over the region are converging on the Gray Art Gallery and Museum , Hartlepool , to see an exhibition of the work of realist painter John Bratby , which is to go on a UK tour . |
| 16 | A silver salver which was presented to Lieut Col Leonard Laing , Commander of the 9th Durham ( Sunderland ) Battalion of the Home Guard , is to go on display at the Monkwearmouth at War Exhibition at Monkwearmouth Station Museum in Sunderland . |
| 17 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow , starting from Darlington Market Place at 9am . |
| 18 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow . |
| 19 | This figure is calculated on the assumption that an album retails for just under £7 . |
| 20 | The TRC is calculated on form A2317 from the Total number of manhours ( ie not per man ) spent at or in the locality of the customer 's premises only ( travelling time should not be included ) at the following Hour Charge Rates . ’ |
| 21 | The normal corporate tax rate is 31% and personal tax is calculated on a sliding scale , reaching a maximum of 30% for a taxable income of S$800,000 a year . |
| 22 | A student 's weekly expenditure — which is calculated on the basis of the price of a basket of goods in May — amounts to £160.13 . |
| 23 | CGT for an individual is calculated on the basis that the first £6300 net gains are exempt , and gains over £6300 attract a tax rate of 30 per cent . |
| 24 | This is calculated on all ( or nearly all ) your income , after deduction of your personal allowance ; and in the case of a married man , the married couple 's allowance . |
| 25 | The tax year runs from 6 April to 5 April the following year , so the amount of tax you pay in any one year is calculated on the income you receive ( or are deemed to have received ) between these two dates . |
| 26 | The economic effects of a service such as education are clearly impossible to quantify accurately , and attempts by economists to calculate returns on investment in education are laden with many assumptions and are unavoidably narrow in approach ; in particular , the financial return is calculated on the basis of a ratio between income and the cost of educational qualifications [ Blaug , 1965 ; Morris and Ziderman , 1971 ] . |
| 27 | For sterling and the other major currencies the ‘ effective exchange rate ’ is a general measure of the exchange value of the domestic currency , and it is calculated on such a basis . |
| 28 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 29 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 30 | Unemployment Benefit is calculated on a daily basis , so that each day on which an Unemployment Benefit recipient works is a day for which he is not entitled to claim any benefit . |