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 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's a forty foot long boat paddled by twenty people driven on by a drummer and steered by an oarsman |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Spurred on by a Woman . ’ |
| 22 | It is not everyone who can boast of being pissed on by a lion . |
| 23 | ‘ The trouble , ’ said Fred , ‘ is that your tournament is being put on by a bunch of aircraft public relations people . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 26 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 27 | A Provisional IRA ‘ get-away ’ car was fired on by a soldier and the driver injured . |