Example sentences of "is [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist … |
| 2 | The widest definition of the Crown in the cases is that of Lord Diplock in Town Investments Ltd. v. Department of Environment who said of the term that it is ‘ appropriate to embrace both collectively and individually all the Ministers of the Crown and parliamentary secretaries under whose direction the administrative work of government is carried on by civil servants in the various government departments ’ . |
| 3 | is carried on by private study under supervision . |
| 4 | The plating is carried on in eight vats , one each for silver , nickel and black nickel , two for brass plating , and three for copper plating . |
| 5 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 6 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 7 | The woman is moved on to another bed . |
| 8 | From Tenbury Wells market , mistletoe is sold on to other markets all over Britain . |
| 9 | Then a render is trowelled on in two coats . |
| 10 | This is when the rootstock is simply planted into the vineyard in the autumn and , in the following March , the scion is grafted on to those vines which have taken . |
| 11 | The insights gained from computational models of visual perceptions are facilitating the interpretation of findings of physiological studies of the visual cortex and a picture is emerging of a modular system in which different attributes of the image are processed in different cortical areas before the information is passed on to higher order systems . |
| 12 | I wonder how much of that information is passed on to individual police officers . |
| 13 | Genetic engineering involves the manipulation of DNA , the basic chromosomal unit that exists in all cells and which contains genetic information that is passed on to future generations . |
| 14 | Plainly such action is only relevant to the objective if the rise in rates is passed on to would-be borrowers in the commercial and personal sectors . |
| 15 | Where the savings rate is high , a large proportion of windfall gains is passed on to subsequent generations whose expected gains are lower . |
| 16 | All the complex information which is passed on from one generation to the next is coded using specific arrangements of just four molecules ! |
| 17 | The distinctive property of cultural behaviour , as ethologists use the term , is the way it is passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 18 | In essence , culture is a distinctive way of life of a people , not biologically transmitted but learned behaviour that is passed on from one generation to the next , evolving and changing over time . |
| 19 | In general , safety and environmental benefits are sought in the living areas and through traffic is deflected on to those roads better suited to its needs for speed and high capacity . |
| 20 | In section 11.3 it was stressed that the Laplace transform of a signal is pertinent to practical situations in which the signal is switched on at some instant . |
| 21 | A corollary of this last point is that the technique is likely to succeed when the signal is switched on at some moment to which the time origin may be ascribed , the inference being that the signal is zero up to time . |
| 22 | The whole penis is then rubbed with 33% calomel ointment which is kept on for several hours . |