Example sentences of "is [vb pp] on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 2 | Take great care not to apply too much adhesive as it will show through or seep out once the glass is pressed on to the picture . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 4 | It is carried on through the medium of lullabies . |
| 5 | This whole process is carried on within the context of the legislative norms of expertise and reciprocity . |
| 6 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 7 | An active educational programme , in co-operation with schools and colleges , is carried on throughout the year ( except January ) and a library is available for research . |
| 8 | Harry Dodson 's head gardener 's office is built on to the back wall of the kitchen garden at Chilton . |
| 9 | A broad wheel of small diameter , it is of the overshot , pitch-back type and sits below a ‘ launder ’ , or large iron tank , which accepts water from the ‘ flume ’ , connected with the mill-pond , so that water is ducted on to the top of the wheel , causing it to rotate backwards . |
| 10 | With both stable the pressurisation is selected on to the accompaniment of popping eardrums , a whiff of hot exhaust fumes and a reduction in noise . |
| 11 | They are woven from rather coarse flexible tubing , and are driven from a compressed-air supply that is strapped on at the waist . |
| 12 | Similar voltage waveforms apply to windings B and C with an appropriate phase displacement , so that winding C , for example , is turned on at the mid-point of the winding freewheeling interval . |
| 13 | The entry is then displayed on screen for correction and if it is correct , the librarian chooses option 3 and the data is written on to the disk . |
| 14 | When the invoice comes in for payment , this is copied on to the system as well , and Caterdata first searches for the equivalent delivery note to check that Brown is being charged for the right goods . |
| 15 | The image is drawn on to the stone with a fine wax pencil or crayon , which attracts the oily ink used in the printing process . |
| 16 | The burden of proof is shifted on to the defendant and although the prosecution does not need to prove that the accused intended that the impression be false and misleading , the defendant may need to establish that he reasonably believed that it would not be so . |
| 17 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
| 18 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
| 19 | Managing change : Today , however , almost every guru is locked on to the theme of change management . |
| 20 | This prepreg material is then covered with a flexible membrane which is sealed on to the tool and the area under the bag evacuated . |
| 21 | Unusually , the front wrap-around handle is moulded on to the top of the motor housing , rather than the bottom . |
| 22 | Just as History involved the legitimation as knowledge of certain forms of political power , so the production of the subject by the human sciences as an object of knowledge also enabled a new form of political control : ‘ The individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power . |
| 23 | This analysis suggests that if , in periods of intensified conflict , crisis is displaced on to the deviant , the process only succeeds because of the paranoid instabilities at the heart of dominant cultural identities . |
| 24 | When all the data is entered on to the computer , it can then be sorted in numerous ways which would be too time-consuming using manual methods . |
| 25 | Liming wax is scrubbed on to the door when the dye has completely dried . |
| 26 | Take care to keep the swollen union of fruit trees — where the top growth is grafted on to the root stock — well above ground level . |
| 27 | The sander is clamped on to the edge of a workbench so the disc is vertical and the shank of the disc is locked securely into your power-drill chuck — most drills with a standard 43mm diameter neck are suitable . |
| 28 | Some of the magma generated is erupted on to the surface to form enormous lava flows ( see Chapter 5 ) , but by far the largest proportion is accreted to the base of the crust , a process known ( somewhat misleadingly ) as underplating . |
| 29 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
| 30 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |