Example sentences of "[verb] on by [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 32 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 33 | She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself . |
| 34 | ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee . |
| 35 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 36 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 37 | ‘ I would prefer the portfolio of the shadow Scottish secretary to be voted on by the Scottish group and the Scottish party . ’ |
| 38 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 39 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |
| 40 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 41 | Carl , at No. 38 with Does It Feel Good To You , only realised he was being spied on by the law when police pulled him up in his car . |
| 42 | ‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way . |
| 43 | However , despite the way teachers represented their views Mr and Mrs Shod doubted the severity of the problem : ‘ I do n't think he 's any worse than other kids — he 's picked on by the school . ’ |
| 44 | Some Sutton pupils expressed worries about being picked on by the ‘ bigger ones ’ and were concerned about going into the same playground . |
| 45 | Were they picked on by the police , the people in the , cos that seems a pretty severe sentence . |
| 46 | A struggling Swan was summarily ejected , helped on by a boot up the backside on the part of the Party 's chief agent . |
| 47 | Somehow , Dai , goaded on by a blend of Bernard 's impatience and supervision , got them working . |
| 48 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 49 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 50 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 51 | The business is now carried on by the sons of the original proprietor who trade under the name of ‘ Joseph Wright & Sons , ’ and employ from six to seven hundred men . |
| 52 | Piracy may be very damaging to trade ; but if carried on by the merchants themselves , it can obviously stimulate it . |
| 53 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 54 | After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) . |
| 55 | Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . " |
| 56 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 57 | The Court of Appeal held , however , that there was no partnership in existence , since no business was being carried on by the defendant and X ; on the contrary , the goods had been ordered in preparation for the formation of a company , and such transactions could not be considered as ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 58 | Where an event has occurred ( e.g. the passing of legislation by Parliament ) which renders the business carried on by the partnership unlawful , s. 34 of the 1890 Act provides for the ending of the partnership |
| 59 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 60 | The question of law for the opinion of the High Court stated by the Board of Review was whether , on the facts agreed and proved , the relevant profits for the years of assessment in question did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |