Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 3 | This would seem appropriate to the early stages of learning a foreign language , but is too restrictive if carried on to an advanced level . |
| 4 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 5 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 6 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 7 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 8 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 9 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 10 | This south façade of Manor Farm was built on to an earlier house in 1725 . |
| 11 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 12 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 13 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 14 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 15 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |
| 16 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 17 | And Adam Hinton , the photographer , called on for an impartial view , agrees — blast him . |
| 18 | Social injustice is brought on by an economic policy perpetuated by the Tories and their . |
| 19 | The ‘ bad mood ’ syndrome brought on by an offensive odour and the resulting symptoms of annoyance can lead to antisocial behaviour ; relationships with family , friends and others become strained , the persons most affected perhaps blaming other members of the family for the position in which they find themselves and which they consider intolerable , leading in extreme cases to marriage problems or at least much unhappiness . |
| 20 | This means that bilingual education must be focused on from an early age and given a high profile throughout the school system . |
| 21 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |
| 22 | By contrast , in the Devon village of Broadclyst , it is the middle-class estate of four-bedroomed detached dwellings that has been grafted on to an older core of smaller , less attractive houses . |
| 23 | During the trial , the jury heard how the assault had led on from an earlier flight between the two men over a woman . |
| 24 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 25 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 26 | In the context of futures trades on recognised or designated investment exchanges , money received by a member firm must often be passed on to an intermediate broker or to the exchange or clearing house concerned where it will be combined in an account with funds attributable to other clients . |
| 27 | Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew . |
| 28 | Here they seem to be thrown on with an easy freedom , there they are adjusted with the nicest touches . |
| 29 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 30 | The nine were travelling in two Warrior armoured infantry vehicles when they were fired on by an A-10 " tankbuster " war plane . |