Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 2 | In the main part of the building the paintings are hung on the first and second floors . |
| 3 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 4 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 5 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 6 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 7 | The SPD pointed out that one-third of asylum-seekers came from Turkey and that strong pressure should be brought on the Turkish government to prevent this . |
| 8 | Tonight , over in the nurses ' home on Huntley Street , a bunch of junior doctors would be putting on the usual end-of-year revue . |
| 9 | No one was likely to recommend that a hopeless old chronic like him should be put on the new drugs at this stage , because they were still in short supply and there were many more interesting patients on whom to experiment . |
| 10 | you know , they 'd be put on the other register . |
| 11 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 12 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 13 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 14 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 15 | The following information needs to be put on the front page : ( 1 ) The agreement date and the name and address of the seller and the buyer . |
| 16 | If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read . |
| 17 | The job of choosing the endangered species to be put on the waiting list belongs to the Captive Breeding Specialist Group , set up by the World Conservation Union — IUCN . |
| 18 | I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’ |
| 19 | Earlier , on Feb. 6 , the union leader Ajami had said in London that " pressure will have to be put on the Kuwaiti royal family to honour " decisions taken at Jeddah in 1990 [ see p. 37759 ] . |
| 20 | Over the next few years the book saw suggestions for all manner of things — for packet tobaccos to be sold at shop prices , for a device to be put on the smoking room door to stop persistent slamming and a complaint that the bushes on the 5th made the hole a flukey . |
| 21 | ‘ Bifurcation ’ refers to a dual-edged approach to the problem of offending : differentiating between ‘ ordinary ’ or ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders with whom less severe measures can be taken on the one hand , and on the other hand ‘ exceptional ’ , ‘ very serious ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ offenders who can be made subject to much tougher measures . |
| 22 | They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth . |
| 23 | Some of these , along with others to be taken on the lighter mornings will be sent to the Highways Department and to the Edinburgh Evening News with an accompanying letter . |
| 24 | In the unpublished ‘ Epilogue ’ to that work , we learn that Shadowfax will be saved too , to be taken on the last ship from the Havens to Aman , simply because Gandalf could not bear the parting . |
| 25 | Clearly the point had arrived in September 1947 where fundamental decisions had to be taken on the American commitment to Korea . |
| 26 | Funds can be switched on the same day from one currency to another by use of a personal identification number ( PIN ) , free of charge save for the foreign exchange commission of 0.1% , minimum £5 , maximum £20 . |
| 27 | We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts . |
| 28 | Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn . |
| 29 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Everything in this century has been put on the marital couple . |