Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 2 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 3 | Take great care not to apply too much adhesive as it will show through or seep out once the glass is pressed on to the picture . |
| 4 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 6 | It is carried on through the medium of lullabies . |
| 7 | This whole process is carried on within the context of the legislative norms of expertise and reciprocity . |
| 8 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 9 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 10 | An active educational programme , in co-operation with schools and colleges , is carried on throughout the year ( except January ) and a library is available for research . |
| 11 | However , despite the way teachers represented their views Mr and Mrs Shod doubted the severity of the problem : ‘ I do n't think he 's any worse than other kids — he 's picked on by the school . ’ |
| 12 | Harry Dodson 's head gardener 's office is built on to the back wall of the kitchen garden at Chilton . |
| 13 | The most useful is the automatic mode : by keeping the trigger gently depressed , the tool will fire a staple every time the nose is pushed on to a surface . |
| 14 | A broad wheel of small diameter , it is of the overshot , pitch-back type and sits below a ‘ launder ’ , or large iron tank , which accepts water from the ‘ flume ’ , connected with the mill-pond , so that water is ducted on to the top of the wheel , causing it to rotate backwards . |
| 15 | With both stable the pressurisation is selected on to the accompaniment of popping eardrums , a whiff of hot exhaust fumes and a reduction in noise . |
| 16 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
| 17 | They are woven from rather coarse flexible tubing , and are driven from a compressed-air supply that is strapped on at the waist . |
| 18 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 19 | Similar voltage waveforms apply to windings B and C with an appropriate phase displacement , so that winding C , for example , is turned on at the mid-point of the winding freewheeling interval . |
| 20 | This can simply be described as a flat panel display that is written on with a stylus ( pen ) . |
| 21 | The entry is then displayed on screen for correction and if it is correct , the librarian chooses option 3 and the data is written on to the disk . |
| 22 | When the invoice comes in for payment , this is copied on to the system as well , and Caterdata first searches for the equivalent delivery note to check that Brown is being charged for the right goods . |
| 23 | The image is drawn on to the stone with a fine wax pencil or crayon , which attracts the oily ink used in the printing process . |
| 24 | 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 ? " |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Rotherham striker John Buckley ( also pictured inset ) is helped on to a stretcher after fracturing his skull |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |