Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would lead inevitably to higher costs which would be transferred on to the customer as an increased cost of electricity , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Mercury 's orbit is fairly eccentric , and therefore a tidal bulge would be acted on by the Sun a good deal more strongly near perihelion than elsewhere in the orbit . |
| 3 | He hoped that the code would be passed on via the Institution of Environmental Health Officers network and adopted by EHOs throughout the country . |
| 4 | And any commission received from , for example , unit trust management groups , would be passed on to the client and reinvested on his or her behalf . |
| 5 | Food industry sources described the prediction as ‘ alarmist ’ and insisted only part of the increase in the farmgate prices would be passed on to the customer . |
| 6 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 7 | Subsidies would also be provided for agricultural enterprises in order to limit the extent to which oil price rises would be passed on to the consumer in higher costs . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the Scottish Office said its £1 million was handed over to Shetland Islands Council and claims against it would be passed on through the IOPCF . |
| 9 | Leaders of some ECOWAS member countries were reported to have agreed privately that ECOMOG forces would be ordered on to the offensive should Taylor 's group renege on the agreement . |
| 10 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 11 | Thousands of British workers would be forced on to the dole . |
| 12 | One was its involvement in politics in a direct sense which would be frowned on in the West . |