Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dialogues are carried on to tell the reader something he must know , or to infuse into him some explanations of a writer . |
| 2 | Certainly we 're called on to make a large number of personal appearances , frequently for worthy causes . |
| 3 | ‘ The confiscated fish are sold on to defray the costs of the commission , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Ormrod J. , noting that this was ‘ the first occasion on which a Court in England has been called on to decide the sex of an individual ’ , felt constrained to find that ‘ legal relations can be classified into those in which the sex of the individuals concerned is either irrelevant , relevant or an essential determinant of the nature of the relationship . ’ |
| 5 | He had been called on to take the job in the name of the Imam and the survival of the Islamic Republic . |
| 6 | To many his shrewdest move was to die , of brain cancer and pneumonia , in May 1987 , before he had been called on to give an account of the role he had played in the affair . |
| 7 | But … the growth in net exports ( of ) services and food can not be relied on to replace the loss of manufacturing and oil net exports and secure further growth sufficient to achieve full employment ’ ( p. 139 ) . |
| 8 | The graph of the cratering rate for the Moon ( Figure 8.1 ) can only be relied on to give a very general indication of the ages of the various cratered regions on the other terrestrial planets , even if considerable care is taken in adapting the data to these planets . |
| 9 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 10 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 11 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 12 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 13 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 14 | The court can not be relied on to imply a term that the parties should co-operate in the appointment of a replacement : see 8.17.4 . |
| 15 | They know she can be relied on to make the big day for her clients sparkle with the perfect glittering accessory . |
| 16 | The recognised or nominal leaders of such groups may be relied on to produce an initial list of individuals who are presumed to have power in community affairs ( leaders ) . |
| 17 | I agree with Jacobs that legislation may be the only answer as commercial forces , if left to their own devices , can not be relied on to protect the most vulnerable members of society . |
| 18 | If it were absent , all transactors could be relied on to keep a promise to implement any decision to the best of their ability . |
| 19 | There was a ‘ secret list ’ of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men . |
| 20 | His mere re-election can be relied on to revive the market and solve those problems — without costing the public purse one penny . |
| 21 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 22 | Pat told the Careers Officer : ‘ I 'm going on to become a professional footballer ’ . ’ |
| 23 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 24 | Fletcher , one of New Zealand 's biggest companies , said that everything was going to plan and that the UK Paper management team , including chairman Tom Wilding , will be staying on to run the company . |
| 25 | We have allocated them that ran out of money this year and this is what is going to be spent on to improve the footpath network and in and say happily next year . |
| 26 | You will pay whatever staff have to be kept on to keep the house and grounds in order and … ’ |
| 27 | Occasionally , this may be foreseen even at the start of your employment : for example , if your position is subject to funding from an outside source or if you are taken on to supervise a particular contract , as may happen in the engineering and construction fields amongst others . |
| 28 | A FORMER toilet roll tester has been taken on to teach the art of creative writing . |
| 29 | But such a tax would drastically hit the sales of tapes , which the Japanese are relying on to justify the £25 million factory in Telford , Shropshire . |
| 30 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |