Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 2 | It could be argued that such a system is valuable in all high risk operations : it provides reassurance not only for the surgical teams but also for patients who are operated on by a surgeon in whom seroconversion subsequently occurs . |
| 3 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 4 | Neither party is likely to want to wait until the matter has been decided on by a court . |
| 5 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 6 | Provision of the means to wage an atrocious war had been agreed on as a sign of good faith . |
| 7 | Batches of 10 to 16 sheep are walked on to a platform which is 450mm ( 18in ) off the ground . |
| 8 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 9 | And medical experts say the horrific condition may have been brought on by a paracetamol tablet . |
| 10 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 11 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 12 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 13 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 14 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 15 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 16 | It can be looked on as a discussion document and its coincidence with the real world is verified in discussions with the various users . |
| 17 | The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science . |
| 18 | For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language . |
| 19 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
| 20 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 21 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
| 22 | Once this thesaurus has been devised it will be mapped on to a set of codes , which will allow the information to be communicated electronically throughout the NHS . |
| 23 | This means that the best possible data model can be formulated with the knowledge that it can be mapped on to a DBMS . |
| 24 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 25 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 26 | Porcelain painting is just one possibility , and if you create a suitable pressed flower design it can then be copied on to a piece of china , which makes a change from using fresh flowers as the reference material . |
| 27 | A Deco card design printout , ready to be copied on to a Deco card . |
| 28 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 29 | So that meaningful searches can be made on the microcomputer and so that all students will be familiar with its use , eventually all audiovisual items in the library will be entered on to a database . |
| 30 | In the old days in Shetland ( and still today in Faroe ) this meant the animals could be driven on to a beach and killed . |