Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 3 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 4 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 5 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 6 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 7 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 8 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 9 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 10 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 11 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 12 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 14 | But United are hanging on to ‘ Captain Marvel ’ leaving Derby boss Arthur Cox admitting : ‘ We made an inquiry for Robson , but United turned us down flat and said he was not available . ’ |
| 15 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 16 | It 's true that more people are hanging on to their cars and strangel ; y not paying for their servicing . |
| 17 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 18 | They are hanging on by refusing to pay suppliers . |
| 19 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 20 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 21 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 22 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 23 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 26 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 27 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 28 | It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate . |
| 29 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 30 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |