Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leathart in his report , dated 10 September 1833 , felt that " … generally the mines are carried on with spirit , and conducted with skill … |
| 2 | Nervous riders are taken on by Blue Well Riding Centre ( Tel : 0267 202274 ) at Pencader , Dyfed , limited to four guests only on the Monday to Friday courses . |
| 3 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 4 | I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance ; I accept that Jung favoured the concept of an ancestral ‘ memory bank ’ to which we are all capable of tuning in . |
| 5 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 6 | It should , in my opinion , only be in the rare cases where the very issue of interpretation which the courts are called on to resolve has been addressed in Parliamentary debate and where the promoter of the legislation has made a clear statement directed to that very issue , that reference to Hansard should be permitted . |
| 7 | Once the acidity is right , huge , mechanical , stainless steel forks are switched on to cut the curd into large chunks . |
| 8 | These include policies of enforced separation whereby only activities that do not cause conflicts are carried on within a single entity , declining to act in situations of acute conflict , use of independence policies and Chinese walls . |
| 9 | But the vast majority are acted on by enzymes , which change them chemically in biotransformation reactions ( see p 165 ) . |
| 10 | Violence , sexual scandal and murder had of course been seized on by Mary 's sixteenth-century detractors as admirable means of blackening the character of a major political figure — particularly a female political figure . |
| 11 | Fragrant herbs play a great part in what has come to be called aromatherapy , in which essential fragrant oils from herbs are rubbed on to the skin . |
| 12 | PC Software houses are turning on to Windows more quickly than the users — there are n't many who do n't have a Windows product in their portfolios these days — and Sage has joined the band of the enlightened few who package both DOS and Windows versions together with its second foray into the GUI market — Sterling + 2 . |
| 13 | Batches of 10 to 16 sheep are walked on to a platform which is 450mm ( 18in ) off the ground . |
| 14 | Society 's values are passed on to us as children via our families . |
| 15 | This does not lead directly to higher prices , but the burden has in part been passed on to the consumer in reduced variety . |
| 16 | Learning is then a process of conscious intervention whereby performance initiated by the natural and unconscious process of acquisition is monitored , so that elements which have been learned as formal rules are grafted on to elements which emerge spontaneously from the domain of the unconscious . |
| 17 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 18 | The extent to which personality characteristics are passed on in this genetic way is less certain . |
| 19 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 20 | Friends and a typewriter are superimposed on to the film of a car journey to Avebury , and background noise is provided , I think , by something called Throbbing Gristle . |
| 21 | Hers is perhaps a 30 year plan , a code that will keep her name in neon until her teenage fans are getting on for grandparenthood and Madonna is another has-been . |
| 22 | But the Monster 's eyes are locked on to mine . |
| 23 | Many pounds of weight are put on through " private " eating sessions . |
| 24 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 25 | The bales that are still in one piece are piled on to a wagon as they are brought in . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 28 | Short- hold and assured tenancies aimed at enticing owners to let empty homes are looked on with suspicion and disdain . |
| 29 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 30 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |