Example sentences of "on [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing the taxpayers ' appeal , Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson held that in construing a piece of legislation , reference to Parliamentary materials , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , is permissible where three criteria are met : the legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; the material relied on consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill , together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; the statements relied on are clear . |
| 2 | Herbs to keep an eye on are the marjorams , of which there are at least three different kinds , tarragon ( two ) , dill and fennel , which hybridize very easily , garden mint which is often a cross with horse-mint , or may even be that species , lovage which can look like ground-elder while young , and French sorrel which is invariably confused with the inferior-tasting English sorrel . |
| 3 | If , therefore , the acts relied on are incapable of being made part of any cause of action — e.g . |
| 4 | The Inspector concluded , ‘ The questions we have to ask , therefore , and which we hope you may be able to help us shed some light on are , one , who was motivated to kill Hereward Marr ; two , what precisely might have provoked them to do it ; three , who drove the mini into the Broad and four , where is Mrs Marr at this moment ? ’ |
| 5 | They must ensure that the matters for which Governments must be relied on are properly provided . |
| 6 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 7 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 8 | But this left unresolved the basic problem that " those who take the decisions about what to spend money on are not the same people who have to account for it " ( Gretton and Harrison 1988 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ If measures or sanctions to put pressure on are taken , we will take counter-measures , ’ said Pyongyang 's ambassador to China , Chu Chang Ju . |
| 10 | That 's on in n it ? |
| 11 | Battery , that 's on in n it ? |
| 12 | It 's on Saturday 's on in n it ? |
| 13 | Oh yeah , the hat on in n it ? |
| 14 | It 's on in n it ? |
| 15 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 16 | What does it say on be a label on it somewhere |
| 17 | They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand . |
| 18 | A chief constable is perfectly entitled to insist on being informed when a member of his force writes to the press on matters appertaining to his force . |
| 19 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 20 | Across the top he has written , ‘ This verges on being in poor taste , but makes a twist and escapes . ’ |
| 21 | On being asked what constituted such vulgarity , it was explained that it was because it had ‘ neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs ! ’ |
| 22 | It is perhaps that Gautier is intent on being ‘ hard ’ ; is intent on conveying a certain verity of feeling , and he ends by being truly poetic . |
| 23 | A company 's success depends on being able to provide greater value to customers than rival companies can . |
| 24 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
| 25 | One grouped her images on being trustworthy , caring , likeable , and willing to listen , while the second grouped her images on being energetic , decisive , well informed , and tough . |
| 26 | One grouped her images on being trustworthy , caring , likeable , and willing to listen , while the second grouped her images on being energetic , decisive , well informed , and tough . |
| 27 | Labour 's rating on being united increased by 14 per cent though other aspects of its image improved by very much smaller amounts . |
| 28 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 29 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 30 | Thatcher strengthened her image on being decisive but lost ground on being energetic . |