Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treaty of Rome contained no specific references to the need for the Community to develop an Industrial Policy , consequently the main focus towards industry has been on competition policy , and on the creation of the SEM . |
| 2 | While much of the focus in this chapter has been on manufacturing where the reliance on small producers is relatively unusual among advanced economies , the small firm is dominant in many other sectors . |
| 3 | As has already been noted , however , most of this research has been on villages , rather than the more difficult scattered settlements ; the atypical patterns , such as the strings of villages in chalkland valleys , have received a disproportionate amount of attention ( Fig 15 ) |
| 4 | Here , Stoddard Templeton was well known ; all the staff in the department having been on sales training courses at Elderslie , which they recalled with morale boosting enthusiasm . |
| 5 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 6 | Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set . |
| 7 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 8 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 9 | More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging . |
| 10 | My job entailed being on call for shipping in the harbour and for this reason I was loath to live outside Stornoway . |
| 11 | For the past six weeks at Bristol Crown Court three companies involved in the manufacture or supply of the gantry have been on trail . |
| 12 | So our emphasis has been on cost reduction and internal quality issues . |
| 13 | So far the emphasis has been on fission , where the nuclei of heavy elements such as uranium fragment into smaller pieces . |
| 14 | The Government 's emphasis has been on changes to the way the education system is run . |
| 15 | As the fashion for hair has moved away from the hard , artificial post-punk era towards more natural styles , the emphasis has been on hair care products that promote softness and shine . |
| 16 | The rest has been on average just over one gramme . |
| 17 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 18 | This is not because language production is an unimportant aspect of language processing , but simply because almost all the research into normal adult language use has been on comprehension rather than production . |
| 19 | Although this framework has been usefully applied to higher education ( see Wright 1988 ) , its main impact has been on studies of the school curriculum . |
| 20 | It is also dependent , however , on how long the baby has been on morphine and is , to a certain extent , a matter of individual assessment ( including observation of withdrawal signs ) and prescribing . |
| 21 | Joseph Freeman had been on trial as a porter , and his appointment was confirmed . |
| 22 | Liverpool have been putting hard-tackling left-back Stig Bjorbye through his paces at Anfield , while members of Norway 's Under-21 side who beat England last month have been on trial at Leeds , Sheffield United , Oldham and Forest . |
| 23 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 24 | The recent rainfall will be in his favour , as his best form has been on ground with a cut in it . |
| 25 | In recent years the Lanx has been on loan to the British Museum . |
| 26 | There 's old adage ; one game at time , but for once when the pressure 's been on Swindon have done the business and they are looking very solid . |
| 27 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 28 | Many of us wished that the same breadth of opportunity had been on offer in our own day . |
| 29 | We believe that part of the reason lies in the fact that no integrated fleet management system has been on offer before and potential users are put off by having to deal with third parties , complicated billing arrangements which makes it difficult to access payback , and lack of geographical coverage . |
| 30 | For last three years the opinion survey has been on line on PROFS . |