Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 2 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 5 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 6 | The draft constitution , to be voted on in the April referendum , would reduce the legislature to a single , bicameral body ; specify the supremacy of federal law over that of constituent republics ; and retain the President as " head of state and the highest executive in Russia " . |
| 7 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 8 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 9 | It can be looked on as a discussion document and its coincidence with the real world is verified in discussions with the various users . |
| 10 | The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science . |
| 11 | For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language . |
| 12 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 13 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 14 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
| 15 | We do n't know but I do n't know but that is a doubt as to whether the manufacturing flavour of the past will be carried on through the decade . |
| 16 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 17 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’ |
| 19 | The new-born child is virtually a clean slate , to be written on by the world . |
| 20 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 23 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
| 24 | Once this thesaurus has been devised it will be mapped on to a set of codes , which will allow the information to be communicated electronically throughout the NHS . |
| 25 | This means that the best possible data model can be formulated with the knowledge that it can be mapped on to a DBMS . |
| 26 | ‘ It would lead inevitably to higher costs which would be transferred on to the customer as an increased cost of electricity , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 28 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 29 | This clock can be turned on by the START signal , causing the motor to run at a stepping rate equal to the clock frequency , and turned off by the STOP signal , in which case the motor is halted . |
| 30 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |