Example sentences of "[vb pp] on by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 2 | Neither party is likely to want to wait until the matter has been decided on by a court . |
| 3 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 4 | Imagine getting turned on by a biker ! |
| 5 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |
| 6 | It could be argued that such a system is valuable in all high risk operations : it provides reassurance not only for the surgical teams but also for patients who are operated on by a surgeon in whom seroconversion subsequently occurs . |
| 7 | In a 7-year follow-up of patients operated on by a surgeon in the USA , a review of death certificates of 264 did not suggest any HIV-related death . |
| 8 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |
| 9 | Newton replaced Galileo 's law of circular inertia with his own law of linear inertia , according to which bodies continue to move in straight lines at uniform speed unless acted on by a force . |
| 10 | During its maturation it is subject to conditions not exactly like those the mother matured in ; and at fertilization it is acted on by a mate with a constitution unlike its own and unlike its mother 's . |
| 11 | EGGED on by a committee of the League of Nations for literature and the arts , Albert Einstein in 1932 asked Sigmund Freud the unanswerable question : ‘ Why war ? ’ . |
| 12 | Outbreaks of violence were common , usually brought on by a mixture of glue and alcohol . |
| 13 | In 1974 his property and investment group also faced problems brought on by a credit squeeze and downturn in the building market . |
| 14 | Her triumph in securing Dombey as a husband for Edith is dashed by Edith 's unconcealed contempt and resentment after the marriage , and she dies in confusion of mind and physical incapacity brought on by a stroke . |
| 15 | ‘ A deficient libido brought on by a set of socio-physical determinants manifesting in a psycho-sexual syndrome , whereby you can only achieve sensual gratification through the experience of pain . ’ |
| 16 | And medical experts say the horrific condition may have been brought on by a paracetamol tablet . |
| 17 | We are being taken to the ‘ limits of pain ’ brought on by a means of transport which is too loud , ugly , congested , dirty , dangerous and expensive . |
| 18 | But , in the end , Steven did n't mind at all when discerning folk puked up all over the loathsome Lost Boys and complained of dangerous levels of heartwarming brought on by an excess of Robin Williams . |
| 19 | The two leaders of Korea , Syngman Rhee and Kim Il Sung , confronted one another , both intensely nationalistic , ruthless , driven on by a sense of destiny and confidence that he — whether Rhee or Kim — would unite Korea and lead the nation to a glorious future . |
| 20 | It 's a forty foot long boat paddled by twenty people driven on by a drummer and steered by an oarsman |
| 21 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 22 | Spurred on by a Woman . ’ |
| 23 | It is not everyone who can boast of being pissed on by a lion . |
| 24 | After a year of this , he was then taken on by an Exeter dentist , a Mr. Groves , as a dental technician . |
| 25 | ‘ The trouble , ’ said Fred , ‘ is that your tournament is being put on by a bunch of aircraft public relations people . ’ |
| 26 | Only one player a year from List One , and just two in any five-year period , can be signed on by a county making it unlikely that Athey would be able to move . |
| 27 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 28 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 29 | A Provisional IRA ‘ get-away ’ car was fired on by a soldier and the driver injured . |