Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's obviously been brought up to look on the doctor as the bogey man . ’ |
| 3 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 4 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 5 | Have you been signed up to star on a film yet ? |
| 6 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 7 | Charlie 's going out to check on the territory and strike up a deal . |
| 8 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 9 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 10 | [ Most of the recommendations were implemented : the Development Council was set up to advise on a ten-year development programme ; a large amount of building work was authorised and a special college opened in Leicester to train youth leaders , whose numbers doubled by 1966 . ] |
| 11 | IBM and Fiat Engineering were invited to participate and in 1987 the interdisciplinary Neapolis project was set up to focus on the vast archaeological site of Pompeii . |