Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 2 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 3 | Members sponsored by unions who are turned on by that prospect ? |
| 4 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 5 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 6 | If the liberal-democratic institutions of an ‘ imitation bourgeois state ’ , such as elections , parliaments , elected local government and multi-party systems are grafted on to neo-colonial relations of production , as was the case in many countries immediately following independence , they will decay . |
| 7 | In a way , the very roots of music are touched on in this work . |
| 8 | Just like certain tournaments today are put on by public relations types who know nothing about golf . |
| 9 | Many garden pools have ornamental fountains which are switched on on hot days or when you are in the garden . |
| 10 | Funds allocated from central to local government are passed on to individual schools . |
| 11 | They are passed on to other specialist Hospitals , and in this case the Southampton General where they believed surgeons would n't accept smokers … |
| 12 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
| 13 | Learned behaviour in any particular society includes those ideas , techniques and habits which are passed on by one generation to another — in a sense , a social heritage — and which are virtually a set of solutions to problems that , in the course of time , others have met and solved before . |
| 14 | I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance ; I accept that Jung favoured the concept of an ancestral ‘ memory bank ’ to which we are all capable of tuning in . |
| 15 | They are part of the culture of society and are passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 16 | For Dr Eugene Nida ‘ culture ’ is ‘ all nonmaterial traits which are passed on from one generation to another . |
| 17 | Darwinian , genetical evolution takes place because genes are passed on from one generation to the next , and if some genes build better bodies than others , they are favoured by natural selection , become commoner , and evolutionary change will take place . |
| 18 | Genes are , essentially , segments of DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid , a complex chemical compound constituting the basis material of the chromosomes through which the individual traits of an organism are passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 19 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 20 | Tons and tons of waste are piled on to giant furnaces every day , burning away all the waste . |
| 21 | Vehicles are loaded on to special platforms and dropped out of aircraft specifically designated to carry out this task on to adjacent or parallel drop zones . |
| 22 | They are held on by recessed bolts and wing-nuts , and are easily removed . |