Example sentences of "on by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervous riders are taken on by Blue Well Riding Centre ( Tel : 0267 202274 ) at Pencader , Dyfed , limited to four guests only on the Monday to Friday courses . |
| 2 | BA93 organisers fired on by Labour MPs |
| 3 | UNEMPLOYMENT increased by 40,200 last month to reach its highest total for four years The increase took the number out of work to 2,647,300 figures immediately seized on by Labour and Lib-Dems and used to attack the Tory jobs record . |
| 4 | Beyond the town , the old county boundary is crossed , Caithness being left for Sutherland , both of these ancient counties having now sadly lost their identities in the new-fangled administrative area known as the Highland Region — one hopes that Caithness will for ever remain Caithness and Sutherland Sutherland in the minds of Scotsmen : historical associations should not be trampled on by modern bureaucracy . |
| 5 | The reproductive role of women exposes them to many health problems , including diseases associated with malnutrition , infections and diseases brought on by inadequate prenatal care . |
| 6 | But the Hercules was locked-on to again and , as it was manoeuvring , the crew believe they were fired on by anti-aircraft shells . |
| 7 | He flips way off the handle , often too ridiculous for his own good , but his unfaltering sincerity and self-belief is steadying and dispels any giddy embarrassment brought on by such behaviour . |
| 8 | Different lessons were passed on by other grandparents . |
| 9 | The other kind of sex I learned about was the meaning of the four-letter words the boys chalked up on the playground wall , though the explanations were inadequate and puzzling , passed on by other children and received with incredulity . |
| 10 | THE early success of the Darlington Business Link , an initiative designed by the Darlington Business Venture bring local trading companies together , has been latched on by other business organisations around the country . |
| 11 | He saw the torch which Reagan and Thatcher had lit being borne on by other , apparently unstoppable , hands , while the newer economies , like Walesa 's Poland , flocked to its light . |
| 12 | Remote and isolated , the quarries were remarked on by many an unbelieving traveller in this region which Defoe called ‘ the wildest , most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England … |
| 13 | How does Kohlberg 's theory of gender identity development , drawn on by many feminist theorists , fit with feminist social learning and psychoanalytic models of gender identity ? |
| 14 | is carried on by private study under supervision . |
| 15 | They 'd probably switched it on by remote control while he was on his way up . |
| 16 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 17 | It can also be brought on by incorrect or over-feeding , low oxygen levels or sudden temperature changes . |
| 18 | But er we went from erm Quay , we did stay at Belfast for a about erm just er a few hours , picked up the Belfast passengers , they , they , we did n't dock there , we they came on by tender . |
| 19 | The move reflected a growing interest in share trading among the Gulf Arab states as their economies recovered from recession in the mid-1980 's brought on by lower oil prices . |
| 20 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 21 | There , the coal bearing Carboniferous has been covered later on by Mesozoic and Cainozoic sediments , the thickness of which generally increases to the north . |
| 22 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 23 | HIV is not contagious — it can not be passed on by ordinary social contact in the same way as colds and flu are . |
| 24 | Consequently , it is not contagious ( it can not be passed on by ordinary social contact ) and is transmitted in four main ways : |
| 25 | But if you do n't mind this cinema verité approach to pornography and you get turned on by freaky-looking people , then the amateur video could introduce you to some interesting new bedtime pals . |
| 26 | The widest definition of the Crown in the cases is that of Lord Diplock in Town Investments Ltd. v. Department of Environment who said of the term that it is ‘ appropriate to embrace both collectively and individually all the Ministers of the Crown and parliamentary secretaries under whose direction the administrative work of government is carried on by civil servants in the various government departments ’ . |
| 27 | We were spurred on by great support |
| 28 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 29 | That had resulted in 150 companies being taken on by five multiples and a 30 per cent increase in product listings . |
| 30 | It has been reported that spontaneous cell mediated cytotoxicity brought on by mononuclear cells can be inhibited by SASP but not by corticosteroid , and that ADCC is not influenced by SASP or corticosteroid . |