Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 2 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 3 | The document is basically a briefing document in order that every piece of information erm that is available to the police is then able to be passed on to the officers who are actually going to do the job . |
| 4 | probably by going to these meetings I can pick up the be best practice for ideas which can be passed on to the others |
| 5 | If the last is the case then those profits will either be retained in the company and reinvested , or they will be passed on to the shareholders as increased dividends . |
| 6 | To meet with the department to discuss with them how objectives can be passed on to the pupils . |
| 7 | In addition , the heavy tax rates of the late-Seventies would have made it virtually impossible , had one or other of the pair died , for the company in its entirety to be passed on to the children , Laura 's most cherished ideal . |
| 8 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 9 | Once typed on to special paper , the copy could be pasted on to the boards and , with no need for hot metal , or skilled printers , was camera-ready . |
| 10 | The non-collection element will be loaded on to the bills of those who pay , which is an inherent feature of the poll tax system . |