Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 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 | They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and |
| 4 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 5 | Yet this knowledge has not been passed on to the laity . |
| 6 | Ward 's counsel also suggested that at the time of her original trial large amounts of vital evidence had not been passed on to the defence . |
| 7 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 8 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 9 | Dr Susan Blackmore , of the Brain and Perception Laboratory of the University of Bristol , suggests that a group of babies be trained to use a ‘ baby-operated tape player ’ invented by Tom Troscianko and herself , which will shortly be released on to the market . |
| 10 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 11 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 12 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 13 | Environmental protection can not be tacked on to the end of industrial development . |
| 14 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 15 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 16 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 17 | → Dealing with your ideas in order , buying a secondhand valve amp to use with your existing combo speaker would not work because of the complex switching required to bypass the amplifiers into dummy loads ( a valve amp can not be left on without the speaker or a dummy load in circuit ) as well as input routing to both amps . |
| 18 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 19 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 20 | Correcting the August report , the Yak C-11s recently removed to the USSR from the UK and the USA are not being worked on by the Yak OKB . |
| 21 | If the recession is hitting mums and dads , it 's certainly not being passed on to the children . |
| 22 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 23 | In his place , the MP for Hamilton , George Robertson , who yesterday was voted on to the shadow cabinet for the first time . |
| 24 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 25 | Sections that have been saved to disk from other designs can also be imported on to the current grid , so a completely new pattern could be created simply by combining various sections from other designs . |
| 26 | If desired , a message could also be piped on to the middle band of the balloon . |
| 27 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 28 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 29 | The mail-order scheme for cycle helmets run by the Scottish Road Safety Campaign has now been taken on by the ‘ Hard Helmet Scheme ’ . |
| 30 | Certainly , while some type of guarantee scheme or bonding would seem to be desirable , the cost will inevitably be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher charges . |