Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Compare Auntie 's " Him and his women " ( a fine , natural contour ) with her That is the sort of weak politeness ' just afterwards , where the thought is dwelt on in a manner quite foreign to real life ; or the inane canonic whining of the Nieces ( not perhaps Britten 's most successful creations ) with Balstrode 's " D' you think we should stop our storm for such as you ? " |
| 32 | During its maturation it is subject to conditions not exactly like those the mother matured in ; and at fertilization it is acted on by a mate with a constitution unlike its own and unlike its mother 's . |
| 33 | The burden of proof is shifted on to the defendant and although the prosecution does not need to prove that the accused intended that the impression be false and misleading , the defendant may need to establish that he reasonably believed that it would not be so . |
| 34 | To lay an egg , the female grasps a hair and deposits some ‘ cement ’ which is extruded on to a hair just before the egg is laid . |
| 35 | Rotherham striker John Buckley ( also pictured inset ) is helped on to a stretcher after fracturing his skull |
| 36 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
| 37 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
| 38 | Managing change : Today , however , almost every guru is locked on to the theme of change management . |
| 39 | This prepreg material is then covered with a flexible membrane which is sealed on to the tool and the area under the bag evacuated . |
| 40 | Unusually , the front wrap-around handle is moulded on to the top of the motor housing , rather than the bottom . |
| 41 | Just as History involved the legitimation as knowledge of certain forms of political power , so the production of the subject by the human sciences as an object of knowledge also enabled a new form of political control : ‘ The individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power . |
| 42 | This analysis suggests that if , in periods of intensified conflict , crisis is displaced on to the deviant , the process only succeeds because of the paranoid instabilities at the heart of dominant cultural identities . |
| 43 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 44 | When all the data is entered on to the computer , it can then be sorted in numerous ways which would be too time-consuming using manual methods . |
| 45 | This time , however , data is entered on to the graphs by first indicating each point in turn ( on the plan view of PARTA ) by means of a digitized point . |
| 46 | Liming wax is scrubbed on to the door when the dye has completely dried . |
| 47 | Pindar wrote the first poem of his career ( Pythian x ) for a Thessalian patron in 498 : This opening places Thessaly straight away in the centre of Dorian Greek culture ; the Aleuad dynasty in Thessaly is treated as a branch of the house of Herakles , that is , it is grafted on to the Dorian Peloponnesian tree . |
| 48 | Take care to keep the swollen union of fruit trees — where the top growth is grafted on to the root stock — well above ground level . |
| 49 | The sander is clamped on to the edge of a workbench so the disc is vertical and the shank of the disc is locked securely into your power-drill chuck — most drills with a standard 43mm diameter neck are suitable . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
| 52 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |
| 53 | It is an ambitious project to undertake but ‘ LIFE ’ in York is spurred on by the knowledge of how badly women in York need our help to cope with a crisis pregnancy . |
| 54 | This is remarked on in an exchange between Zapp and Luke Hogan , chairman of the Plotinus English Department , before Swallow arrives : |
| 55 | Down the dog 's back runs a nylon tape with a small karabiner at its ends , which hooks on to a tug line that is crimped on to the tow line . |
| 56 | As land is passed on over the generations , it gradually ceases to be a viable unit . |
| 57 | It does this through sensors which monitor speed and body movement , and this information is passed on to a computer . |
| 58 | This is passed on to a set of inference rules cast in an appropriate non-monotonic logic which operate over the knowledge base to determine an appropriately helpful answer . |
| 59 | Part of the lessor 's cashflow benefit from the consequent reductions in his tax bill is passed on to the lessee by way of lower rentals , reducing the lessee 's effective finance cost . |
| 60 | Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer ) |