Example sentences of "be [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to da Motta Veiga , he had been dismissed on Oct. 19 [ see p. 37773 ] for resisting pressure from Faria [ see also above ] to lend US$20,000,000 and to supply $40,000,000 worth of oil to the Voe Canhedo business group , which owned a 48 per cent stake in the newly privatized VASP airline formerly controlled by the state of Sao Paulo [ see p. 37710 ] . |
| 2 | Massive speculation immediately arose over his death , particularly in the light of recent allegations that Maxwell and a senior Daily Mirror journalist , Nick Davies , had both had involvement with the Israeli secret intelligence service Mossad ; Davies had been dismissed on Oct. 29 on the grounds that he had lied in relation to a meeting which he was said to have had in 1985 with a United States arms dealer . |
| 3 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 4 | Richard H. Truly who had been dismissed on Feb. 13 . |
| 5 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 6 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 7 | Justice Minister Abdehamid Mahi-Bahi was reported to have been dismissed on Nov. 14 by the President of the High Committee of State , Ali Kafi , and replaced by Mohamed Teguia , President of the Supreme Court . |
| 8 | Hanniah Lungu , hitherto Air Force Commander , was appointed Minister of Defence , succeeding Frederick Hapunda , who advocated a pluralist democracy and who had been dismissed on June 7 , officially for being " ineffective " in carrying out his duties . |
| 9 | Will she also emphasise that we are building on success and , to this end , will she give the House the figures for 1988 , 1989 and 1990 on the proportion of American and Japanese investment in the EC which came to Britain ? |
| 10 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 11 | Langbaurgh council 's tourism and leisure committee was told that Kart racing and other activities which had been been stopped on Sundays at the controversial Wheelbase Park in South Bank , Middlesbrough , was costing the cash-hit council over £20,000 . |
| 12 | Other things being equal it appears that those remanded in custody are more likely to plead guilty , substantially less likely to be acquitted and very much more likely to receive a custodial sentence on conviction than their counterparts who are remanded on bail ( see , eg , Bottomley , 1970 ; Davies , 1971 ; and also Home Office , 1990f , Tables 9.6 and 9.9 ) . |
| 13 | On Easter Monday , Belgian police raided a ship equipped for incinerating waste at sea , the Matthias II , in Antwerp harbour , The raid followed reports in the Italian press that the waste , which contains 300 grams of dioxin ( TCDD ) had been incinerated on board a Dutch ship in the North Sea . |
| 14 | Although the inquiry had resulted in the successful prosecution of several former Reagan administration officials , convictions against the two highest-profile defendants — former National Security Advisor John M. Poindexter and his aide , Oliver L. North — had been overturned on appeal . |
| 15 | Had the plane been recalled on account of bad weather and plunged into the sea ? |
| 16 | He joins a general strike by those who have been dispossessed on Urras and tells them : ‘ ( on Anarres ) we have nothing but our freedom . |
| 17 | Frequently , squeaks and crackles over the posterior lung lobes are heard on auscultation . |
| 18 | Unit trust prices are calculated on computers using market information supplied by the WM Company . |
| 19 | Consumer protection laws are justified on efficiency grounds , in order to prevent consumers making unwise decisions because of insufficient knowledge of firms ' products . |
| 20 | What expectations are placed on quantity compared to quality of work that you do ? |
| 21 | The basic argument with which we are concerned here is that the low level of female crime is a result of the expectations and constraints that are placed on women by society . |
| 22 | Pressure by environmentalists in the US has meant that that country has exerted some control over the industry by insisting that observers are placed on board US-registered boats . |
| 23 | The important event in container shipping occurs not when the goods are placed on board the vessel , but when the goods are taken charge of by someone entrusted with the ‘ door to door ’ carriage of the goods , including , when appropriate , vessel carriage . |
| 24 | Lastly to make the picture more realistic , some crew are placed on board , and on the floating pontoons . |
| 25 | They predict that if no controls are placed on CFC and halon emissions there will be over 150 million extra cases of skin cancer in white US citizens born before 2075 . |
| 26 | Further bars are placed on top of the joists , and 19mm Gypoc plank is screwed to the underside , the floor is 19mm Gypoc plank laid in the channel , with floor boards screwed to the channel flanges |
| 27 | Timbers are placed on top of the existing roofing , secured through the existing roof covering into existing supports . |
| 28 | The whole church is based on a skeleton framework , the supporting roof poles are placed on top of the intersecting ground sills and there are cross beams on top of the poles . |
| 29 | These are placed on top of a complete pudding basin cake made in the normal way . |
| 30 | In any situation where heavy demands are placed on personnel owing to excessive work load , there is a tendency to deal with those jobs where most external pressure is being applied and to neglect the ones showing least demand . |