Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrariwise , one may be able to vote provided that one is in fact registered even though one was not entitled to be registered — the register , when published , is conclusive ( ibid , s.49 ) once notice of an election has been given , although it may be amended on specified grounds prior to that date ( ibid , s.11 ) . |
| 2 | In order to counter this , specific measures should be undertaken on long-lasting projects to update the professional competence of those involved . |
| 3 | In the former slave economies this can not be explained on political grounds , since the South was conquered and the old plantation aristocracy was at least temporarily powerless , though it soon returned . |
| 4 | It is 25 miles to the nearest district general hospital from some parts of the county and ambulances can be delayed on narrow roads , crowded with holiday traffic . |
| 5 | In Stage II , however , resits may only be given on compulsory modules , normally including projects and dissertations . |
| 6 | Admission is free and advice will also be given on coarse fisheries and brown trout fishing . |
| 7 | The Environment Protection Law set fines for those who polluted " beyond limits " , and enabled projects to be halted on environmental grounds . |
| 8 | Starting in September 1990 batches of new courses will be introduced in each session so that from September 1992 all entrants will be enrolled on new-style courses . |
| 9 | The views of centres are therefore being sought on the year in which it is considered that candidates could be enrolled on new-style courses , for those courses which are not the subject of national development of units . |
| 10 | James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were dead , Charles Maurras was a member of the Petain government and would soon be imprisoned for treason , Ezra Pound was about to be indicted on similar charges ( although Eliot refused to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in their inquiries about him ) . |
| 11 | One of the Regional Council 's reasons for refusal of planning permission is that the proposed development falls outside the areas identified for office use in the Lothian Region Structure Plan 1985 and can not be justified on prime land in the Green Belt as there is no essential overriding need , given the supply of office floorspace currently available , under construction or with outstanding planning permission , which is more than sufficient to satisfy development needs within the Structure Plan period to 1996 and beyond . |
| 12 | Some of these regulations may not promote efficiency but be justified on paternalistic grounds : workers are held not to be the best judges of their own interests and so are prevented by law from taking risks they would voluntarily undertake for money . |
| 13 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 14 | As long as the differential remains at the present level incorporation can not be justified on fiscal grounds . |
| 15 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 16 | At present , ingredients must be listed on packaged food , but not on food sold loose , and precise quantities need not be given . |
| 17 | Thus , nave and aisles could be vaulted on square bay pattern . |
| 18 | The premium put option provides a higher guaranteed return to the holder of the debt than would be received on identical debt without such a put option . |
| 19 | Children — Care proceedings — Family proceedings court — Local authority seeking care order in terms agreed by all parties — Justices conducting full hearing — Justices making order in different terms from those agreed — Whether full hearing appropriate — Whether parties entitled to be heard on proposed variations of agreed order |
| 20 | They will take on responsibility for countryside management and access in the whole of the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) between Harting in the west and Eastbourne in the east , and will be consulted on significant planning applications in the area . |
| 21 | Most of the criteria are electrophysiological but X- , Y- , and W-cells in the retina may also be distinguished on morphological grounds . |
| 22 | Emphasis will be placed on recent trends and findings in such areas as interdependence , conflict analysis and studies of how decisions are made . |
| 23 | The Building Research Establishment suggested that more emphasis should be placed on frequent inspection by architects and builders . |
| 24 | The NI has campaigned consistently over the years for more emphasis to be placed on primary health care than on expensive technological options — in other words for local people to be trained to combat the most basic diseases , as in China 's revolutionary ‘ barefoot doctor ’ system . |
| 25 | He also points to the ecological problems that this industrialisation of farming and forestry has brought about , to the increased reliance that has to be placed on chemical pest and disease control under monocultures . |
| 26 | The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ . |
| 27 | The range of political institutions and objectives is well discussed , although one could have wished for more emphasis to be placed on European Community matters and where they may lead us . |
| 28 | Emphasis must be placed on certain steps and their qualities which appear to be particular to one country and dances should be limited to those which can be recognised . |
| 29 | [ J. ] should not be placed on prolonged life support using a ventilator in an intensive care unit . |
| 30 | Therefore , all other things being equal , it would appear that more , or more extensive , controls would have to be placed on state-owned concerns than on regulated ones . |