Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not lead directly to higher prices , but the burden has in part been passed on to the consumer in reduced variety . |
| 2 | Friends and a typewriter are superimposed on to the film of a car journey to Avebury , and background noise is provided , I think , by something called Throbbing Gristle . |
| 3 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 4 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 5 | The edging for a gravel drive must be deep enough to keep in the gravel which is below ground level , and high enough to prevent the gravel being spread on to the garden . |
| 6 | This kind of thinking is leading on from the question of analysis to that of evaluation . |
| 7 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 8 | Once dry of all fluids the car is loaded on to the factory 's rolling ‘ D production ’ line . |
| 9 | Newall was discovered unconscious and suffering convulsions in his cell — where the light is kept on round the clock — by guards at midday yesterday . |
| 10 | As when the light is switched on behind the gauze |
| 11 | The rib transfer carriage is lowered on to the needlebed to the right of the knitting . |
| 12 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 13 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 14 | Such a practice was frowned on by the church , and instructions were given to the warden of the building that if any young woman allowed a man to stay overnight then she was to be reported to the Mother Superior . |
| 15 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 16 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 17 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 18 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 19 | The goat 's mask figure was lowered on to the chair . |
| 20 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 21 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 22 | There are also benefits to be gained from schools working together on ‘ education weeks ’ where displays of art , craft and project work are put on in the town hall or community centre . |
| 23 | After a meeting on April 27 near Cologne between Eppelmann and Gerhard Stoltenberg , the West German Defence Minister , a joint statement declared : " Our goal is a united Germany as a member of the Atlantic Alliance without NATO 's military structures or equipment being extended on to the territory of East Germany . |
| 24 | If ever a stage production was set to enjoy a long run , it must be the work being put on by the Glasgow-based ensemble company , The Golden Age Theatre . |
| 25 | Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair . |
| 26 | Most types of glider should be showing a very small amount of rudder being held on into the turn . |
| 27 | Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels . |
| 28 | Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc . |
| 29 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 30 | Footpaths have been widened in Bondgate and similar work is going on near the Northgate , Tubwell Row and Priestgate entrances to the Cornmill shopping centre . |