Example sentences of "are [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 2 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 3 | Members sponsored by unions who are turned on by that prospect ? |
| 4 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 5 | If the liberal-democratic institutions of an ‘ imitation bourgeois state ’ , such as elections , parliaments , elected local government and multi-party systems are grafted on to neo-colonial relations of production , as was the case in many countries immediately following independence , they will decay . |
| 6 | In a way , the very roots of music are touched on in this work . |
| 7 | Just like certain tournaments today are put on by public relations types who know nothing about golf . |
| 8 | Many garden pools have ornamental fountains which are switched on on hot days or when you are in the garden . |
| 9 | Funds allocated from central to local government are passed on to individual schools . |
| 10 | They are passed on to other specialist Hospitals , and in this case the Southampton General where they believed surgeons would n't accept smokers … |
| 11 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
| 12 | Learned behaviour in any particular society includes those ideas , techniques and habits which are passed on by one generation to another — in a sense , a social heritage — and which are virtually a set of solutions to problems that , in the course of time , others have met and solved before . |
| 13 | I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance ; I accept that Jung favoured the concept of an ancestral ‘ memory bank ’ to which we are all capable of tuning in . |
| 14 | They are part of the culture of society and are passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 15 | For Dr Eugene Nida ‘ culture ’ is ‘ all nonmaterial traits which are passed on from one generation to another . |
| 16 | Darwinian , genetical evolution takes place because genes are passed on from one generation to the next , and if some genes build better bodies than others , they are favoured by natural selection , become commoner , and evolutionary change will take place . |
| 17 | Genes are , essentially , segments of DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid , a complex chemical compound constituting the basis material of the chromosomes through which the individual traits of an organism are passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 18 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 19 | Tons and tons of waste are piled on to giant furnaces every day , burning away all the waste . |
| 20 | Vehicles are loaded on to special platforms and dropped out of aircraft specifically designated to carry out this task on to adjacent or parallel drop zones . |
| 21 | They are held on by recessed bolts and wing-nuts , and are easily removed . |