Example sentences of "[vb past] on by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around him , the other England players gradually acclimatised to their new surroundings , pleasantly suprised by the facilities laid on by the Indian authorities . |
| 2 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 3 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 4 | UN specialists say that the regulations , plans and treaties agreed on by the Mediterranean countries have not significantly curbed the outpouring of sewage and industrial effluent from the 360 million people who live around the Mediterranean basin . |
| 5 | A statement agreed on by the Foreign Ministers asserted " the illegitimacy of all forms of Israeli settlement " in the occupied territories and stressed the importance of " full UN participation " and " effective EC participation " in the peace process . |
| 6 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 7 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 8 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 9 | A-cups are Janet-Reger-ites , turned on by the decadent thrill of spending enormous sums on scraps of silk only their lovers will ever see . |
| 10 | Shone on by the temperate sun , it stretched |
| 11 | This aspect of his practice is only just beginning to change , but he intends to persevere with it , spurred on by the personal satisfaction he has derived from ‘ seeing them do their maths ’ . |
| 12 | If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m . |
| 13 | I can truthfully say that there were about a hundred people , male , female , young , old , and of all races , happily training their dogs , all spurred on by the infectious enthusiasm of Dave Lower and the committee of the Meridian Rottweiler Club , who all muck in to help . |
| 14 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 15 | Judged by the highest standards there may have some stiffness in the rhythm , some slack articulation of the words and some raucous tone from certain voices , yet , urged on by the dynamic playing of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra , and especially by the cohorts of percussion , the singing was exhilarating . |
| 16 | For some time now , and urged on by the old man 's taunts , he had been intent on fathering a child of his own . |
| 17 | The expression of conditions of existence , so often insisted on by the illustrious Cuvier , is fully embraced by the principle of natural selection . |
| 18 | But Italy 's sports journalists gave a unanimous thumbs down to the show put on by the British player they have dubbed ‘ Gazza di Gateshead ’ . |
| 19 | The two men ate in silence , with relish , waited on by the two girls . |
| 20 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 21 | In April 1707 , when the Whig mayor and his officers attempted to levy a toll at the cornmarket after the Tories had already done so , they were set upon by an angry crowd egged on by the Tory mayor . |