Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 2 | The first is the period of oral tradition when the stories of Jesus were used and passed on by the Church . |
| 3 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 4 | Companies ' interim and preliminary statements should be reviewed and reported on by the auditor before publication . |
| 5 | Piracy may be very damaging to trade ; but if carried on by the merchants themselves , it can obviously stimulate it . |
| 6 | Not only that , it 's a full-fledged endangered species ( see ‘ Pigs in distress ’ ) , having disappeared entirely from the islands of Masbate , Bohol , Cebu , Guimaras and Sequijor , and holding on by the skin of its tusks only on Negros and Panay . |
| 7 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 8 | We set out for the inlet , pulling a shrieking Maha , surrounded by the usual bevy of children and urged on by the boys , maids and especially the Youngest Son , who was always ready to tease and laugh . |
| 9 | For some time now , and urged on by the old man 's taunts , he had been intent on fathering a child of his own . |
| 10 | The value of projects lies less in the subject matter than in the fact that topics are chosen and worked on by the pupils themselves . |
| 11 | The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast . |
| 12 | Dr. Goldsmith and Dr. Phillips were asked to examine him because he said he had been kicked and jumped on by the labour master , and that his body was black and blue ; no marks of violence were in fact found . |
| 13 | Newton replaced Galileo 's law of circular inertia with his own law of linear inertia , according to which bodies continue to move in straight lines at uniform speed unless acted on by a force . |
| 14 | Thus , cases such as Expro Services Ltd v Smith [ 1991 ] IRLR 156 , involving the contracting out by the Ministry of Defence of its catering function , should not fail in the future on the grounds that the catering operation , as carried on by the Ministry , was not in the nature of a commercial venture . |
| 15 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |
| 16 | The symmetry of any property of a molecule may be determined by seeing how it behaves when operated on by the various symmetry elements that make up the overall symmetry point group of the molecule ( see Appendix ) . |