Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knitwear suits every mood with a wealth of texture , colour and pattern , layered on with denim in every shape and form — skirts , dresses , jeans and jackets . |
| 2 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 3 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 4 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 5 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 6 | Across the border in North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic within Russia ) , a group of Russian " volunteers " had arrived in late February in the regional capital , Vladikavkaz , according to the Georgian daily Sakartvelos Respublika of Feb. 27 , ostensibly to " protect Russia 's southern borders " , and a small number of these " volunteers " , apparently unarmed , had travelled on by helicopter to Tskhinvali , the South Ossetian capital . |
| 7 | According to observers the significance of the vote in terms of national politics was that it would increase the likelihood of the minority government seeking to secure the support of the Progress Party for the 1990 budget , which was due to be voted on in parliament in December [ see below ] . |
| 8 | Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 10 | His work on Linear B was carried on with flair by John Chadwick ( b.1920 ) . |
| 11 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 12 | It is important to realise that the complexity of the business carried on by solicitors in partnership is such as to make the adoption of a standard draft risky and unsatisfactory . |
| 13 | This appeal to the idea of analysing complex mental thoughts into constituent simples was made earlier by Gassendi , and also carried on by philosophers in later centuries . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 15 | When high roads , bridges , canals etc , are in this manner made and supported by the commerce which is carried on by means of them , they can be made only where that commerce requires them , and consequently where it is proper to make them . |
| 16 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | a purpose connected with his business as a manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in trailers carried on in conjunction with his business as a motor trader . |
| 19 | However , Rita calmly carried on in spite of this rather inconvenient technical hitch . |
| 20 | Alternatively , s.22(1) of the Alkali , etc. , Works Act 1906 provides for formal complaint to be made to HM Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate via their inspectors , by any local authority or inhabitant of the district , if a process to which the Act applies is being carried on in contravention of the provisions of the Act and a nuisance has arisen . |
| 21 | So long as production is carried on in units of production which have a degree of real economic autonomy and ‘ employ ’ distinct groups of workers ( despite their general interdependence in terms of input/output relations ) there will exist real grounds for conflict between particular groups of workers and the ‘ social interest ’ , however democratically the latter is generated . |
| 22 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 23 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 24 | The Countryside Commission claims that it will ruin the view from the mountain , but the developers argue that it should be looked on with pride as a source of non-polluting energy . |
| 25 | As in so many things , the ways of the Victorians , while looked on with horror in late twentieth-century England , have survived in America ; unashamed fervour in holding and expressing religious and patriotic beliefs which easily blend into one another is but one example . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Anything that you design in the ORIGINAL shaping section can of course be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 28 | Anything that you design within the programme can be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 29 | All the Victorian fry were grown on in tanks with a pH of only 7.4 . |
| 30 | There were few records kept , and those were transferred on to tape by the Americans years ago . |