Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen .
2 It does n't have to be slid on at the end of the needlebed .
3 ‘ Next year 's Eurovision could be put on at the King 's Hall .
4 The problem for Galileo was that , once suspicions were aroused , the machinery of censorship could be switched on at a moment 's notice .
5 Only 125 staff will be kept on at the Junction making washing machines .
6 The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with .
7 James 's problems were increased by a break in filming between the bulk of his scenes and a few that had to be tacked on at the end of the shoot .
8 Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter .
9 I well remember a young man who aroused special interest one weekend because he had been taken on at a place which had a certain reputation .
10 The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established .
11 Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open .
12 They are woven from rather coarse flexible tubing , and are driven from a compressed-air supply that is strapped on at the waist .
13 Similar voltage waveforms apply to windings B and C with an appropriate phase displacement , so that winding C , for example , is turned on at the mid-point of the winding freewheeling interval .
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