Example sentences of "[vb pp] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
| 2 | Caesar was the first Roman to allow his own portrait to appear on coins minted at Rome and elsewhere in his lifetime ; his statue was carried on a litter , and set next to statues of the gods . |
| 3 | This was also carried on a division ; the Government accepted their defeat and did not seek to reverse the decision . |
| 4 | It was not a weapon which was capable of being carried on a belt or in a sash . |
| 5 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 6 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
| 7 | We w we was partnerships you see well when our place collapsed they carried on just carried on a bit because they were connected with Japan . |
| 8 | Brachiopod feeding is carried out by the lophophore ( p. 61 ) , a ciliated band usually carried on a loop , which also creates the currents used in feeding . |
| 9 | ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’ |
| 10 | tell me about taking bearings , what do you do , let's give you an example , of some bearings to take , erm , and then you can tell me what you 're doing , so there 's a point there , and we 'll call that erm , P , just to be awkward , now let's say what we 'll do , this is what we 'll d , this is a typical problem in fact , erm , I 'll even draw that line on for you to start with , yeah , here 's the problem , a ship is sailing due North , okay , and when it 's at the point of A it takes a bearing on the lighthouse , so the lighthouse is somewhere , do n't know where it is , but bearing of L from A is forty five degrees , and the bearing of L from B , which is when the ship has sailed on a lot further |
| 11 | His remains were then hung on a gibbet as a warning to others . |
| 12 | Two million had died and the world had hung on a heartbeat , and the sky had blazed like a thermonuclear sun standing still . |
| 13 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 14 | That 's what seems to worry people — that photography should be hung on a wall , not stood in the middle of a room . ’ |
| 15 | A forgotten lithograph , the Hounds , the Hunt Servants and members of the local Hunt ( numbered for identification ) still hung on a wall , stubbornly reminiscent of better , or anyway , different times . |
| 16 | The heavy-weight champion in loadbearing. 50 kilos can be hung on a screw fastening into FERMACELL with a rawlplug . |
| 17 | Samples can be hung on a rod , in slotted pockets or placed on a lectern . |
| 18 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
| 19 | Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice . |
| 20 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 21 | The news that she was married , and the awful fear he had experienced , brought on a fever . |
| 22 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 23 | If a Japanese firm were brought on a tour around West Belfast they would see all the barbed wire and be discouraged . |
| 24 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 25 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 26 | The greatest balm he could bring , brought on a knife-point . |
| 27 | Exhaust fumes made her drowsy and brought on a headache and pains in her eyes . |
| 28 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 29 | Whether they worked or not , the potions had a serious and potentially fatal side-effect : ‘ these stimulating drugs , ’ wrote Manucci , brought on a retention of ‘ urine … for three days Shah Jehan was almost at death 's door . ’ |
| 30 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |