Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 3 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 4 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 5 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 6 | Leathart in his report , dated 10 September 1833 , felt that " … generally the mines are carried on with spirit , and conducted with skill … |
| 7 | The first name ‘ Delves ’ , he confided , is an acronym for ‘ The deeds of Lenin are carried on by Stalin ’ . |
| 8 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 9 | Short- hold and assured tenancies aimed at enticing owners to let empty homes are looked on with suspicion and disdain . |
| 10 | Before Reflexology was researched and developed in America in the 1930s , work on reflexes of the feet had been carried on in China for thousands of years . |
| 11 | I hope that this historical survey gives you some insight into the work that has been carried on regarding AI , in particular expert systems , for the maintenance of aircraft within the RAF . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | TWO LAWSUITS resulting from Christie 's $39.6m sale last May of Impressionists from the collection of Hal Wallis , the Hollywood movie producer , are reported on in Art and Auction , the monthly magazine . |
| 14 | The pouches are sewn on to 2in wide webbing , which is fully adjustable to fit from 30in to 46in girth . |
| 15 | Since then , new benefits have been bolted on to Beveridge 's structure and some of these have compounded the ageism of the system . |
| 16 | Such swarms are fed on by mysticete ( whalebone or baleen ) whales , and experienced whale hunters sought the swarms of krill in the expectation that whales would be seeking them too . |
| 17 | Alongside the notice was another one from the cricket club stating that the offer to the rugby club had been made on on April 9 and , as joint owners of the ground , the cricket club had been informed . |
| 18 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 19 | By ten p.m. certain members of the company were sniffing coke or had been turned on by acid or speed or grass . |
| 20 | And then they 're hung on by pegs and then touched underneath with mortar to stop them lifting off , that grey sort of er it 's to stop them lifting off . |
| 21 | Chemicals that in the Common Market are not allowed to travel by road , they 're forced on to rail . |
| 22 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 23 | Based on a series of works by Picasso collectively known as the Antipolis cycle , made in 1946 to 1947 , the images have been engraved on to metal plates by Claude Rodrigues and printed uninked ( a technique known as gaufrage ) . |
| 24 | The clock and barometer have been handed on from Kevin 's father 's yacht |
| 25 | The accord renewed the provisions for a ceasefire which had been agreed on in March but never put into effect [ see p. 38755 ] . |
| 26 | While the tribute often remained unpaid , as in the case of Sicily , where an annual payment of 30,000 tarims ( about £100,000 ) had been agreed on in Frederick 's minority , it provided a source of income which the political activities of the popes in their dealings with the separate kingdoms suggest was definitely worthwhile . |
| 27 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 28 | Sixty dead or dying dolphins have been washed on up beaches in southern Italy in July , raising fears of a recurrence of the viral epidemic which killed hundreds of Mediterranean dolphins in 1990 . |
| 29 | Returns are kept in the Public Record Office at Chancery Lane , London , under the classification E179 , but an enquirer should first check the availability of those which have been printed on a county basis or have been copied on to microfilm . |
| 30 | But the vast majority are acted on by enzymes , which change them chemically in biotransformation reactions ( see p 165 ) . |