Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babies born to women who smoke are on average 200 grams lighter than babies born to comparable non-smoking mothers . |
| 2 | The world of the theatre is made up of those who like being on stage and those who enjoy being behind it . |
| 3 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
| 4 | They 've got people who 've been on it for years and years . |
| 5 | should be sitting down with staff who 've been on courses . |
| 6 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 7 | who 've been on the watch since 1941 |
| 8 | But even for him there 's a thrill playing with bands who 've been on top for quarter of a century |
| 9 | A family who 've been on a council waiting list for four years have finally been offered a house which has been wrecked by vandals . |
| 10 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 11 | Jamaica alone has a hundred and five prisoners who 've been on death row for more than five years . |
| 12 | Mr V.P. Singh outwitted them all with his choice of the mufti , a gesture of reconciliation to the nation 's 100million Muslims , who have been on the receiving end of bloody communal violence in north India . |
| 13 | ‘ Mostly , we find that Packman is being bought by larger , more safety-conscious farmers , especially where there is pressure from operators who have been on COSHH and FEPA courses . ’ |
| 14 | Hounslow , with no injury problems , have taken a deliberately low-key approach to their latest European venture , giving their squad , including Rob Thompson , Jon Potter and Paul Bolland , who have been on GB duty , a much-needed rest after the demands of the domestic season . |
| 15 | As will be seen in the section on training , 95% of those who have been on an ATB course saw ‘ less time and effort ’ as one of the main benefits to themselves . |
| 16 | Glaxo Group Research has a range of policies to provide support to , and facilitate the easier return to work of , women who have been on maternity leave . |
| 17 | It is sad when sisters and brothers who have been on good terms quarrel about who gets what , whether the reasons for wanting a particular item are commercial or sentimental . |
| 18 | Women who have been on the Pill may have nutritional deficiencies ( see p 260 ) and you may wish to take a nutritional supplement of the kind described on p 330 . |
| 19 | Pray for the young people from QP who have been on mission or camp this summer . |
| 20 | Kirk Douglas 's reputation for being difficult has , in recent years , become something of a joke , even for those who have been on the receiving end of his temperament . |
| 21 | Recently , however , two small-scale studies have been completed which take on board the perceptions and experiences of parents who have been on the receiving end of child protection interventions . |
| 22 | Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job . |
| 23 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 24 | That would allow a tremendous movement of people from under-utilised accommodation to smaller accommodation and would allow many people who have been on the waiting list for council houses for many years to be moved into smaller accommodation . |
| 25 | Members who have been on the Public Accounts Committee , as I have , will know all about virement , which is not a recondite issue but a practical one . |
| 26 | Within the balcony we 've got representatives from Tylers at Crawley , representatives of twenty three of our colleagues , who have been on strike for twenty weeks in defence of jobs , in defence of pay and equally important , in defence of safety standards |
| 27 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 28 | Okay Now as those of you who have been on a course will know er on a training course one thing I particularly ask you and we all do is to be open minded . |
| 29 | We there 's Don and myself two individuals who have been on the course for incident training with Fire Brigade . |
| 30 | There are now almost 50,000 people in the region who have been on the dole for more than a year . |