Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 3 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 4 | By contrast , in the Devon village of Broadclyst , it is the middle-class estate of four-bedroomed detached dwellings that has been grafted on to an older core of smaller , less attractive houses . |
| 5 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 6 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 7 | This means that bilingual education must be focused on from an early age and given a high profile throughout the school system . |
| 8 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |
| 9 | Here they seem to be thrown on with an easy freedom , there they are adjusted with the nicest touches . |
| 10 | In the context of futures trades on recognised or designated investment exchanges , money received by a member firm must often be passed on to an intermediate broker or to the exchange or clearing house concerned where it will be combined in an account with funds attributable to other clients . |
| 11 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 12 | Noses to the ground , the dogs were coming on at an fast , distance-consuming lope . |
| 13 | The nine were travelling in two Warrior armoured infantry vehicles when they were fired on by an A-10 " tankbuster " war plane . |
| 14 | Social injustice is brought on by an economic policy perpetuated by the Tories and their . |
| 15 | ‘ So if the hoped for vatable activity is tagged on to an existing business the Customs and Excise or the Tribunals , may refuse to accept the activity as a business and so deny the VAT registration , ’ says . |
| 16 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 17 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 18 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
| 19 | This south façade of Manor Farm was built on to an earlier house in 1725 . |
| 20 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 21 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 22 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 23 | Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew . |