Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 2 | A 45 year old man is reported on with Whipple 's disease who presented with weight loss , lethargy , and ascites . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For example , Kerr ( 1968 , p. 16 ) defines the school curriculum as ‘ all the learning which is planned and guided by the school , whether it is carried on in groups or individually , inside or outside the school ’ . |
| 5 | For the most part , agricultural education which includes education for horticulture , forestry , poultry husbandry and dairying is carried on in specialist colleges of agriculture and horticulture , together with some general technical colleges . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These cover only the provision of a rounded rib in the camera film chamber to reduce friction as the film is wound on between shots ! |
| 8 | said : ‘ Our main objective is to ensure we retain the business achieved by ICI when it is transferred on to Courtaulds Aerospace sites or on to a Courtaulds Aerospace product . |
| 9 | The image is transferred on to paper by a conventional xerographic printing process . |
| 10 | MICHAEL MANN 's moved on from Miami Vice and back to the 18th Century for Last Of The Mohicans . |
| 11 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 12 | The new construct — the growth hormone gene joined to a promoter that is turned on by traces of metal — was injected with a fine pipette into the nucleus of a fertilized mouse egg . |
| 13 | A log file ‘ QA_USER.LOG ’ for the specified Approver is opened in the approver 's directory and the approver is logged on to LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) . |
| 15 | In certain extreme circumstances , Her Majesty may find herself in a position in which she is called on to use her discretion in making a political decision . |
| 16 | Diane Whiteley is superb as the good little girlfriend who is egged on to display her wares by her pathetic lover . |
| 17 | By the way , it 's laid on at La Motte today , that large farm near the digging ops . |
| 18 | It 's brought on by exercise and excitement . ’ |
| 19 | The HSE 's propensity ( or more realistically reluctance ) to prosecute , except as a last resort or where there is no alternative , is well-known and is touched on by Phil James in ‘ Reforming British Health and Safety Law : a framework for discussion ’ ( 1992 ) 21 Industrial Law Journal 83–105 , together with the related area of penalties . |
| 20 | Relocation of industry is touched on in chapter 2 , sections 2.3 and 2.7 . |
| 21 | If a woman makes the slightest mistake it 's pounced on as evidence of her general incompetence . |
| 22 | Once more a misogyny produced internally to and largely by hetero/sexual difference is projected on to homosexuality . |
| 23 | The conversion is not shown on the screen , but selecting this option will make it happen automatically when the design is printed on to paper . |
| 24 | From here the seashore is followed on to Cat Nab . |
| 25 | The legislative architect of the Law Commissions was Gerald Gardiner , Labour 's Lord Chancellor from 1964–70 , and his achievement is remarked on in Chapter 3 . |
| 26 | The specific components of chromosomes in turn are called genes , that familiar word describing how detailed information about the whole organism is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 27 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 28 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 29 | It is found in Central and South America and , like yaws , is passed on in childhood . |
| 30 | The former get warm first when the system is switched on from cold . |