Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 2 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 3 | As for the staff , they 're going on to new jobs . |
| 4 | Good , you 're getting on to good ideas now . |
| 5 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 6 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 7 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 8 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 9 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 10 | Many current debates about the future of medical education are going on among small groups of specialists , with no input from the vast majority of people who do the actual teaching . |
| 11 | If a relationship is clearly becoming either more established , or girls ( and boys ) are moving on to other sexual relationships , it seems logical to take precautions . |
| 12 | If the liberal-democratic institutions of an ‘ imitation bourgeois state ’ , such as elections , parliaments , elected local government and multi-party systems are grafted on to neo-colonial relations of production , as was the case in many countries immediately following independence , they will decay . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm getting on to Social Services . |
| 14 | Just like certain tournaments today are put on by public relations types who know nothing about golf . |
| 15 | Nervous riders are taken on by Blue Well Riding Centre ( Tel : 0267 202274 ) at Pencader , Dyfed , limited to four guests only on the Monday to Friday courses . |
| 16 | Many garden pools have ornamental fountains which are switched on on hot days or when you are in the garden . |
| 17 | Despite these difficulties there are almost as many children now attending primary schools as there were before the invasion , and many teachers are carrying on without regular salaries . |
| 18 | Funds allocated from central to local government are passed on to individual schools . |
| 19 | They are passed on to other specialist Hospitals , and in this case the Southampton General where they believed surgeons would n't accept smokers … |
| 20 | I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance ; I accept that Jung favoured the concept of an ancestral ‘ memory bank ’ to which we are all capable of tuning in . |
| 21 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 22 | Tons and tons of waste are piled on to giant furnaces every day , burning away all the waste . |
| 23 | Vehicles are loaded on to special platforms and dropped out of aircraft specifically designated to carry out this task on to adjacent or parallel drop zones . |
| 24 | They are held on by recessed bolts and wing-nuts , and are easily removed . |