Example sentences of "on by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the other , the church is founded but taken over early on by the Popes in Rome and by priests who use magic and ritual to gain control of God 's people , thus profaning his divine word . |
| 2 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 3 | If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m . |
| 4 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 5 | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ … handed on by the Apostles . ’ |
| 6 | Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale . |
| 7 | ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee . |
| 8 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 9 | I could never get over the transformation of the vast auditorium by the dimming of the lights , the beautiful changes of colour on the curtains , and the anticipation brought on by the roaring lion , the muscle man with his gong the snow capped mountain , the searchlights probing the 20th Century . |
| 10 | The two men ate in silence , with relish , waited on by the two girls . |
| 11 | The farms , small to start with and made even smaller as time went on by the system of inheritance , were extremely vulnerable to natural disaster . |
| 12 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 13 | Charles had been moved early on by the plight of disadvantaged young people and much of his energy had gone into that . |
| 14 | After all ceremonial and courtly pomp inspired many of the most important works not just of Purcell but of whole centuries of composers , and record companies , egged on by the period performance boom , are more and more investigating them . |
| 15 | SPURRED on by the prospect of imminent defence cuts , the US Army has drawn up plans for cutting its forces in Europe by half , and recasting the army of the future into a rapid-deployment force , able to intervene in Third World trouble spots , in terrorist situations and to fight the war on drugs . |
| 16 | The deputy chief of France 's air and border police , Mr Pierre Quilici , said the warning had been passed on by the Americans several days ago . |
| 17 | I ask if they have heard that in Bolivia the government , spurred on by the IMF , made thousands of miners redundant to make their economy ‘ viable ’ . |
| 18 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 19 | But he was alert and sparkling , his motor well and truly turned on by the presence of Catherine Crane , and he probably was n't going to go home till he , or Catherine , dropped in their tracks . |
| 20 | Barbara Lohman of the Points of Light Foundation ( a non-profit organisation set up at the instigation of the White House ) says that today 's volunteers are ‘ not turned on by the martyrdom thing . ’ |
| 21 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 22 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |
| 23 | The stony-hearted shore upon which she had been washed up was always in sight of a fretting , dull , menacing sea : potentially dangerous , urged on by the tide , looking for a killing . |
| 24 | Urged on by the tide of his insistence , Elisabeth felt herself being swept to the edge of a desolate strand . |
| 25 | Sales were hit early on by the Gulf war and profits fell 19 p.c. to £2.8m . |
| 26 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 27 | At Ciba-Geigy the figures are much the same — in 1990 13 out of 34 graduates taken on by the company were women . |
| 28 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 29 | However , the atmosphere was so friendly and relaxed that it was n't long before we made lots of friends and , spurred on by the Animation Team , joined in the occasional game of volleyball or tennis — you can hire racquets and even have expert tuition if you want to improve on your technique . |
| 30 | In line with this general movement came talk of installing an automatic watering scheme for greens and tees — and not just spurred on by the drought summers of 1975 and 1976 — but by the costs and difficulties of staffing a manual system and by the increasing use of such systems elsewhere ! |