Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 2 | With the exception of relief papers and thick fabrics like hessian or grasscloth , most of these special wallcoverings need to be hung on a smooth and level surface for a satisfactory result . |
| 3 | Flocks need to be hung on a good wall surface . |
| 4 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 5 | As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up . |
| 6 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |
| 7 | If paintings or prints are to be hung on the walls it is important to work out beforehand where they are going to go , and to make sure that battens are fixed in these particular areas . |
| 8 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
| 9 | Events , at last , seemed to be taking on a constructive momentum of their own . |
| 10 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 11 | Then , feeling perhaps that things needed to be put on a proper footing , ‘ Veronica Totteridge . |
| 12 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 13 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 14 | Established to tackle thorny problems , it was hardly surprising that , in the words of Lord Shawcross , ‘ if you could n't find a solution which commanded general support , then at least you 'd find a way which would enable the whole matter to be put on the back shelf . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | Having arranged for it to be put on the grave that afternoon , he returned to Weatherbury in the evening , with a basket of flowering plants . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | He wants the matter to be put on the back burner until the Republic have taken another important step towards next year 's USA finals . |
| 23 | ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’ |
| 24 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
| 25 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 26 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 27 | The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure . |
| 28 | As the wind begins to build , the boom should continue to be carried on the centreline and you should not attempt to sheet the main using the vang : because the boom is so long , the mainsheet is a more effective control . |
| 29 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 30 | Will he ensure that sufficient facilities are made available north of Manchester and Liverpool to allow people and freight to be carried on the trains ? |