Example sentences of "[vb pp] on by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 2 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 3 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 4 | I think it 's also entertainment the excellent wage of services placed on by Harlow Council . |
| 5 | Across the border in North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic within Russia ) , a group of Russian " volunteers " had arrived in late February in the regional capital , Vladikavkaz , according to the Georgian daily Sakartvelos Respublika of Feb. 27 , ostensibly to " protect Russia 's southern borders " , and a small number of these " volunteers " , apparently unarmed , had travelled on by helicopter to Tskhinvali , the South Ossetian capital . |
| 6 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 7 | A resolution enshrining the decisions is to be voted on by deputies today . |
| 8 | The scheme has to be voted on by Headteachers and parents within ten days to guarantee it 's success . |
| 9 | McVicar who was involved in riots and rooftop protests at Durham and Chelmsford Jails says the army should have stormed the prison to save sex offenders being picked on by rioters . |
| 10 | It is important to realise that the complexity of the business carried on by solicitors in partnership is such as to make the adoption of a standard draft risky and unsatisfactory . |
| 11 | The taxpayers appealed against the assessments , contending that the two offices constituted separate trades carried on by B and W. B's trade had continued after the dissolution of the partnership . |
| 12 | This appeal to the idea of analysing complex mental thoughts into constituent simples was made earlier by Gassendi , and also carried on by philosophers in later centuries . |
| 13 | Ogden 's craft was carried on by Christopher Caygill , who made brass-faced clocks with minute hands , and one of his apprentices , who married his master 's daughter , took over the business and made clocks with painted faces . |
| 14 | There is a church , rebuilt in 1717 , when the pottery manufacture was flourishing with forty-three small manufactories , carried on by families until they were superseded in the industrial revolution . |
| 15 | The first name ‘ Delves ’ , he confided , is an acronym for ‘ The deeds of Lenin are carried on by Stalin ’ . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 17 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 18 | On 15 October the Chief Executive of Lautro notified Norwich of Lautro 's intention to conduct a full investigation into the business carried on by Winchester . |
| 19 | ‘ On 15 October 1990 the Chief Executive of Lautro notified Norwich of Lautro 's intention to conduct a full investigation into the business carried on by Winchester . |
| 20 | The aim will be to capture the processing carried on by listeners as speech is processed and word-meanings identified . |
| 21 | Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised . |
| 22 | When high roads , bridges , canals etc , are in this manner made and supported by the commerce which is carried on by means of them , they can be made only where that commerce requires them , and consequently where it is proper to make them . |
| 23 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 24 | Mr Lee recognises the 752-member assembly for what it is — an anachronism instinctively opposed to the reforms begun three years ago by the late President Chiang Ching-kuo ( a son of Chiang Kai-shek ) and carried on by Mr Lee . |
| 25 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |
| 26 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 27 | And then they 're hung on by pegs and then touched underneath with mortar to stop them lifting off , that grey sort of er it 's to stop them lifting off . |
| 28 | That did n't have to be sewn on by hand then |
| 29 | Such swarms are fed on by mysticete ( whalebone or baleen ) whales , and experienced whale hunters sought the swarms of krill in the expectation that whales would be seeking them too . |
| 30 | Kinlet Hall has moved on By Steve Standbridge |