Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll . |
2 | Tiphook Piggyback System Demonstration — This new innovative system will be actively demonstrated explaining how road vehicles can be successfully carried on the railway . |
3 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
4 | We are then taken on a tour of the factory while waiting for lunch . |
5 | Fox and Stephen Brown L.JJ. noted , at pp. 1080 and 1089 , that the relevant statements were not taken on the basis that they were merely ‘ to be used for a private investigation to see if the police had acted improperly in any way ’ — one of the two main reasons for Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Neilson v. Laugharne , the other being that the plaintiff there was merely ‘ fishing . ’ |
6 | His remains were then hung on a gibbet as a warning to others . |
7 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
8 | Erm certainly on the rescue tenders , erm erm on , on each division would have that equipment , it 's not carried on every fire engine as far as I know now , erm I , I do n't see why it should n't but er again I think it 's a matter of cost , and , and carrying it about as well and finding the space for it , but certainly it 's at hand when it 's needed . |
9 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
10 | Some cargo is still carried on the waterways , although mainly on the broad canals and rivers . |
11 | When the game is initially switched on a number of the field l.e.d.s may light up , but by pressing the Return Ball button the bowler positions the ball at his own end of the pitch . |
12 | It 's very nasty vapours and has got a fairly low flashpoint and is unfortunately carried on the motorways every day of the week . ’ |
13 | She may have done : it is surprising , and must have struck contemporaries as highly suspicious , that vengeance was not taken on the murderers . |
14 | But as I have said to you , the Banbury School 's decision to opt out was not taken on the grounds of the education offered in this county . |
15 | This was also carried on a division ; the Government accepted their defeat and did not seek to reverse the decision . |
16 | A vote was then taken on the resolution with 's addition and as amended by QC with the following result : in favour 29 ; against 50 . |
17 | Another vote was then taken on the resolution , with 's addition , but otherwise retaining the original wording ie. not as amended by QC with the following result : in favour 65 ; against 17 . |