Example sentences of "[modal v] be on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the above information , the manager calculates the number of service staff by grade who should be on annual leave for each week of the year . |
| 2 | There is some evidence in the papers on US , EC , and UK competition policy in this issue that despite differing objectives at the origination of policy , the growing consensus is that the focus should be on economic efficiency . |
| 3 | Any patient who has vascular disease should be on long-term aspirin . |
| 4 | No they do n't I mean , the whole point is with P O A is what 's wh what we 're doing is sorting out should the customer be on P O A or should be on net list . |
| 5 | If he 's on P O A and he should be on net list , we need to change it , if he 's on |
| 6 | Experts argue these treasures should be on full view to the public , but instead they 're hidden away in storage because there 's nowhere to display them . |
| 7 | Experts argue these treasures should be on full view to the public , but instead they 're hidden away in storage because there 's nowhere to display them . |
| 8 | As much as 85% of the materials should be on open access , and stock relegated to store should remain there for a trial period of five years before being returned to the main library , or transferred to a permanent back-up collection such as the British Library . |
| 9 | The Minister and I may disagree about whether the emphasis should be on voluntary or statutory agreements . |
| 10 | The position that we have held ( and continue to hold ) is that the focus should be on retained recourse , which we would generally expect to write off , and on the retention of significant benefit in relation to the expected performance of assets . |
| 11 | The emphasis must be on total patient care , whereby the learner has responsibility for particular patients . |
| 12 | Dulles had warned ministers in Paris on 11 December 1956 that Nato " must have a measure of flexibility although our main reliance [ about 90 per cent of cases ] must be on atomic weapons in the event of a major attack " . |
| 13 | Research topics do not need to be immediately related to BP Chemicals operations but they must be on environmental matters . |
| 14 | So they must be on different sides . ’ |
| 15 | Flexibility is bound to be required to take account , for example , of a sudden increase in a particular type of work , of a complex transaction of such importance that the partners dealing with it must be on constant standby , of parents wishing to be free during school holidays . |
| 16 | Two , the ribber must be on full pitch ( pitch lever on P ) , even if the rib was knitted on half pitch . |
| 17 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |
| 18 | ‘ We might be on other planets . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah well there 's a problem with that because they might be on different project number mighten they ? |
| 20 | You 'll be on all-day Drug Alert if you tune into the station of the nation who are tackling ‘ the growing use of solvent abuse ’ . |
| 21 | That 's the end of the shipping forecast but just to remind you that Radio Four long wave in Northern Scotland , Orkney and Shetland is off the air as the bulkhead transmitter has been affected by the bad weather but as soon as it 's repaired we will repeat the shipping forecast for the areas affected that 'll be on long wave only and F M will continue with scheduled programmes . |
| 22 | WORKERS at the giant Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port could be on short-time working early next year , a motor industry watchdog has warned . |
| 23 | These could be on other planets , in artificial space colonies or even beneath the Earth 's own oceans . |
| 24 | Carl Llewellyn had looked as secure as any pilot could be on National Hunt 's casualty-strewn road to success . |
| 25 | Larger proportions of deposits could be on lent , thus the credit creation multiplier could be larger , creating Eurocurrency growth . |
| 26 | FRIED 100-year-old sea monster in breadcrumbs could be on Scottish menus next year , depending on a £50,000 research project into deep water fish stocks west of the Hebrides . |
| 27 | So you 'd be on automatic choke for a bit of the way , most of the way anyway so |
| 28 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 29 | But there is some danger where co-operatives are created out of economic adversity , for the situation is then one of commercial crisis and , important though the rescue may be on general grounds , it is far from an ideal basis on which to promote the reputation of co-operatives generally , or of Co-operation as an alternative form of organisation . |
| 30 | A number of patents may be on shaky ground as far as novelty is concerned if sufficient time and effort were expended on trying to trace anticipatory materials . |