Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 2 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 3 | That has been spurred on by the successful growth of that sector in Britain . |
| 4 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 5 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 6 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 7 | For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show . |
| 8 | South Cambridgeshire District Council has recognized the important part that environmental health officers have to play within the work of the District Council , and for some time now the work of the Department has been carried on under the hat of the Legal , Housing and Health Director . |
| 9 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 10 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 11 | Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent . |
| 12 | It could , because you could put and a sailing boat might have been pushed on by the tide . |
| 13 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 14 | Whiteman , who played in the 1992 debacle , must have been spurred on by the memory as his rink took 13 shots over the last six ends while preventing the opposition from any further score . |
| 15 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 16 | Clients have been known to send the factor invoices before the goods have been shipped , to create fictional ‘ fresh air ’ invoices , or to pocket payments that should have been passed on to the factor . |
| 17 | We hypothesized that heads would have tended to draw them to the attention of their more senior colleagues in the first instance and that the booklets might not subsequently have been passed on to the ‘ rank and file ’ . |
| 18 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 19 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 20 | Some of the magma generated is erupted on to the surface to form enormous lava flows ( see Chapter 5 ) , but by far the largest proportion is accreted to the base of the crust , a process known ( somewhat misleadingly ) as underplating . |
| 21 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 22 | ‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way . |
| 23 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 24 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 25 | Just a few hours earlier British troops had been sent on to the streets of Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | On July 14 Ghozali gave evidence to the court about the events of June 1991 , when the army had been called on to the streets of Algiers to combat FIS supporters [ see p. 38312 ] . |
| 27 | Henry had been invited on to the chat show chiefly because the new snooker champion was the guest of honour . |
| 28 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 29 | So far the French had been fired on from the field on their left , now they would see an officer on the right of their advance . |
| 30 | True , gay sexuality had featured with the Beats , with Kerouac 's ambivalent relationship with Ginsberg , his semi-love affair with Neal Cassidy ; and the subject had been touched on by the early underground , but rather in the way that Ezra Pound 's fascism had been treated , as an interesting eccentricity . |