Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the vast majority are acted on by enzymes , which change them chemically in biotransformation reactions ( see p 165 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This does not lead directly to higher prices , but the burden has in part been passed on to the consumer in reduced variety . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many pounds of weight are put on through " private " eating sessions . |
| 6 | The bales that are still in one piece are piled on to a wagon as they are brought in . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The edging for a gravel drive must be deep enough to keep in the gravel which is below ground level , and high enough to prevent the gravel being spread on to the garden . |
| 10 | To eliminate any chance of the lathe being turned on during routing the router is plugged into the socket which the lathe normally uses . |
| 11 | There have been cases reported of gonorrhoea being passed on within four or five hours of its having been acquired , so , unlike the case with syphilis , there is no ‘ safe ’ period between catching and giving the infection . |
| 12 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 13 | This kind of thinking is leading on from the question of analysis to that of evaluation . |
| 14 | When an offer is under-subscribed , the unsold stock is taken on to the books of the Bank of England and used as a tap stock for sale to the market over time as and when demand develops or can be created . |
| 15 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 16 | The plating is carried on in eight vats , one each for silver , nickel and black nickel , two for brass plating , and three for copper plating . |
| 17 | Modernity is defined against pre-modernity , reason against irrationality and superstition , and this divide is mapped on to a symbolic geography that counterposes the West and its Orient . |
| 18 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 19 | Where the only professional qualification held is that of an admitted solicitor in England and Wales , the presumption ( albeit rebuttable ) will be that the overseas practice is carried on as such . |
| 20 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 21 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 22 | Once dry of all fluids the car is loaded on to the factory 's rolling ‘ D production ’ line . |
| 23 | Relocation of industry is touched on in chapter 2 , sections 2.3 and 2.7 . |
| 24 | Newall was discovered unconscious and suffering convulsions in his cell — where the light is kept on round the clock — by guards at midday yesterday . |
| 25 | As when the light is switched on behind the gauze |
| 26 | The rib transfer carriage is lowered on to the needlebed to the right of the knitting . |
| 27 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 28 | The article continues : ’ Competitive tendering was forced on to us and it 's put a tremendous pressure on everyone . |
| 29 | His attorney 's girlfriend was holding on to his legs as he went through the things that were wrong with his life , in broken English . |
| 30 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |