Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 2 | An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper . |
| 3 | On the left breast of his tunic the insignia of the Legion d'Honneur glimmered among a broad cluster of medals , and his plumed tricorn had been placed ostentatiously on a table at his side . |
| 4 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 5 | Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat . |
| 6 | Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient . |
| 7 | Most of us are located somewhere on a continuum between these two positions . |
| 8 | The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week . |
| 9 | Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself . |
| 10 | In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage . |
| 11 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 12 | These are organized usually on a multiconstituency basis and are responsible for organizing and choosing candidates for constituencies within their areas . |
| 13 | WHEN YOU 'RE BROUGHT UP ON A DIET OF HINES , VIREN AND YIFTER , A VIEW FROM SHELL SUIT FITS PERFECTLY . |
| 14 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 15 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 16 | Two plates from the china cupboards are shown here on a plate from a private dinner service of Queen Elizabeth II . |
| 17 | So , if they are paddocked lower on a hillside , they frequently wear a track with restless pacing along the highest fence — rather than along any other . |
| 18 | Hundreds of teachers and academics have been murdered , the UES has been closed down on a number of occasions by the army and the UCA subjected to bomb attacks . |
| 19 | 3-dimensional plans are drawn up on a computer . |
| 20 | Continuous flow machines form a tunnel made up of separate sections , wash and rinse , which operate continuously while items are drawn through on a link conveyor . |
| 21 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 22 | Therefore , to avoid any confusion , the interpretations have been based solely on a comparison of the rates charged for Cessna 150/152s , as these make up about 45 per cent of the aircraft offered for the purpose of basic training or hire . |
| 23 | The party considerations , in this as in so many other aspects of local government reorganisation , seemed to have been based more on an assessment of the past rather than on considerations for the future . |
| 24 | The existing LFA boundaries are based largely on a line drawn up in the 1940s and hardly modified since . |
| 25 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 26 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 27 | His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ . |
| 28 | Most of them were professional or business men but a high proportion had been brought up on a croft . |
| 29 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 30 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |