Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 2 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 4 | To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections . |
| 5 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |
| 6 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 7 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 8 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 9 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 10 | OVER the last year a considerable amount of progress has been carried out on the Ex-GWR 0-6-2T 5637 locomotive . |
| 11 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 12 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 14 | We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses . |
| 15 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 16 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |
| 17 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 18 | I mean they , they both firmly saying they 're coming back on a full time basis , |
| 19 | Do you find that when you 're sitting down on a hard floor and you stand up yeah and your arse hurts for about half an hour ? |
| 20 | ‘ I always think they 're missing out on a good thing . |
| 21 | Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis . |
| 22 | In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts . |
| 23 | Having been wintered out on the heterosexual plains of Ipswich I longed for the company of other dykes . |
| 24 | THE mutilated bodies of two British women tourists have been washed up on a deserted South African beach . |
| 25 | Inside the hive , where the dance is performed , it is dark and the bees are moving around on the vertical wall of the honeycomb . |
| 26 | It is time to look more closely at the imperative for which we have so far been getting along on a rough formulation , ‘ Face facts ’ . |
| 27 | This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York . |
| 28 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 29 | Details of the amounts due to be billed and the properties concerned are set out on the attached sheet for your information . |
| 30 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |