Example sentences of "be [verb] on [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 3 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 4 | In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed . |
| 5 | ‘ I see you 're getting on with the boots for Edward Morris 's nephew , doing a good job too by the look of it . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 7 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 10 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 11 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 12 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 13 | On July 14 Ghozali gave evidence to the court about the events of June 1991 , when the army had been called on to the streets of Algiers to combat FIS supporters [ see p. 38312 ] . |
| 14 | Teresa , who has regularly been called on by the Clothes Show and TV-am as well as many famous faces , will demonstrate simple application tips and talk about how to choose make-up from the bewildering choice available . |
| 15 | Other events have been laid on for the old-timers , including a tour on Wednesday of Craigantlet hillclimb , one of the oldest events in the British championship , and an autotest at Ballywalter on Thursday afternoon . |
| 16 | ‘ At the moment the bill looks likely to receive the royal assent in early April , so if the election is later than that then we will be pressing on with the plans . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That is inevitable when we are dealing with official bodies , but please be assured that a lot of work will be going on behind the scenes . |
| 19 | So you wo n't have to shuffle the chops or the toast , when you could be getting on with the vegetables . |
| 20 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 21 | The document is basically a briefing document in order that every piece of information erm that is available to the police is then able to be passed on to the officers who are actually going to do the job . |
| 22 | probably by going to these meetings I can pick up the be best practice for ideas which can be passed on to the others |
| 23 | If the last is the case then those profits will either be retained in the company and reinvested , or they will be passed on to the shareholders as increased dividends . |
| 24 | To meet with the department to discuss with them how objectives can be passed on to the pupils . |
| 25 | In addition , the heavy tax rates of the late-Seventies would have made it virtually impossible , had one or other of the pair died , for the company in its entirety to be passed on to the children , Laura 's most cherished ideal . |
| 26 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 27 | Once typed on to special paper , the copy could be pasted on to the boards and , with no need for hot metal , or skilled printers , was camera-ready . |
| 28 | The non-collection element will be loaded on to the bills of those who pay , which is an inherent feature of the poll tax system . |
| 29 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 30 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |