Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] on [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | If he 's on P O A and he should be on net list , we need to change it , if he 's on |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The emphasis must be on total patient care , whereby the learner has responsibility for particular patients . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Two , the ribber must be on full pitch ( pitch lever on P ) , even if the rib was knitted on half pitch . |
| 12 | Yeah well there 's a problem with that because they might be on different project number mighten they ? |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So you 'd be on automatic choke for a bit of the way , most of the way anyway so |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A speechreader may be on top form and have no problems in understanding unimportant asides or trivial chatter , but at the vital interview panic sets in . |
| 18 | The purpose of the Act above all was that future developments would be on low-density garden suburb or garden city lines , primarily the former . |
| 19 | Claims to privilege are the same as they would be on ordinary discovery . |
| 20 | We were on our way to the river to photograph the landscape which , Lady Rutherford told us indignantly , would be ruined for ever if Mr Knightley allowed Mr Dinsdale and his industrialist friends to dig a quarry , part of which would be on common land . |
| 21 | During October , Columbia Tri-Star 's film " The Bear " , directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud , will be on general release in the UK . |
| 22 | The salary will be on Civil Service Scientific Officer/Higher Scientific Officer scale which rises to a maximum of £ per annum ( starting salary is dependent on experience ) inclusive of London Weighting with the possibility of additional increments awarded on the basis of performance . |
| 23 | In this and related Open Texts we shall use the term to refer specifically to uneven geographical development , and the focus will be on uneven development within a national economy . |
| 24 | The Halifax portrait will be on temporary loan to the Grand Palais for the major exhibition of Venetian sixteenth-century painting ( ‘ The century of Titian : from Giorgione to Veronese ’ , 13 March 14 June ; see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , February 1993 , p.4 ) and will be on show in London after the exhibition closes . |
| 25 | At present we 're scheduled to have about 30 different aircraft that will be on static display , we will have er aircraft er Upper Heyford 's own F1 11Es performing simulated airfield attacks on the station . |
| 26 | Throughout , the emphasis will be on inderdisciplinary enquiry , drawing upon and trying to integrate wherever possible psychological and sociological ( theoretical and research ) perspectives . |
| 27 | In 20 years , the plan foresees that 60% of the workforce will be on alternative working hours of some sort . |
| 28 | They will be without Durie , who has a twisted ankle and Bergsson , who will be on international duty with Iceland in Israel . |
| 29 | Ronny will be on international duty when Liverpool play Sheffield United on Wednesday and Anfield will be a duller place for his enforced absence . |
| 30 | Sun Microsystems Inc has confirmed formation of the wholly-owned personal communicator unit FirstPerson Inc ( CI No 2,118 ) and says that its key focus will be on developing software that enables different types of digital devices to swap data and work together — it has in mind televisions , radios , satellites and computers — and to license the software and technology to other companies for use in their electronics products , putting it in direct competition with General Magic Inc , while mirroring some of the concepts of the Echelon Corp Local Operating Network ; boss of the new company Wayne Rosen said that FirstPerson has not ruled out collaborating with General Magic . |