Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal .
2 It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate .
3 Sir Geoffrey is also required to examine the basis on which share deals which are carried on outside the Exchange can be handled by the new clearing house .
4 These include policies of enforced separation whereby only activities that do not cause conflicts are carried on within a single entity , declining to act in situations of acute conflict , use of independence policies and Chinese walls .
5 And all of these functions are carried on by the ego .
6 That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today .
7 The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago .
8 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 .
9 After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ;
10 Lateral and medial stabilisers are incorporated on to the outsole to prevent rollover while the design features a flex notch , which has been cut into the outsole to counter any restriction of movement .
11 But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ?
12 Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to the full-time programme .
13 In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed .
14 ‘ And those statistics are transferred on to the computer ? ’
15 Sunday night rounds the event off with a bizarre juxtaposing of gigs : downstairs in the main hall it 's Mayhem Central , where the venue 's somewhat implausible design means that unless you 're stuffed on to the raised dancefloor you can see bugger all of the bands .
16 A good example is a manufacturer who sells to a reseller and requires the reseller to grant him an indemnity in respect of third party claims for product liability made against the manufacturer arising in relation to the products of the manufacturer that are sold on by the reseller .
17 Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race .
18 The tensions and anxieties which are inevitably entailed when a more or less racially homogeneous society becomes multi-racial are displaced on to a solitary figure — the leering bootboy .
19 Batches of 10 to 16 sheep are walked on to a platform which is 450mm ( 18in ) off the ground .
20 The surprising thing about this debate is its relative neglect of the administrative dimension of corporatism ( Etzioni-Halevy 1983 , pp. 63–73 ) , especially since the relationships between state and economy which compel a corporatist interpretation of modern capitalism manifest themselves through institutions which are grafted on to the administrative system .
21 So it is all the more striking to see what happens when those known language experiences are translated on to the page of a book .
22 Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background .
23 I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women .
24 In an effort to cut costs , Nissan will reduce the breathtaking speed at which new models are rushed on to the market .
25 A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) .
26 Fragrant herbs play a great part in what has come to be called aromatherapy , in which essential fragrant oils from herbs are rubbed on to the skin .
27 There are also benefits to be gained from schools working together on ‘ education weeks ’ where displays of art , craft and project work are put on in the town hall or community centre .
28 One explanation is that the initial infection , acquired from the ingestion of overwintered larvae in May , involves so few worms that neither clinical signs nor immunity is produced ; however , sufficient numbers of larvae are seeded on to the pasture so that by July the numbers of L3 on pasture are sufficient to produce clinical disease .
29 The firm 's number of assignments has doubled since 1979 — from about 70 carried out by five consultants to around 150 handled by nine — and its annual fee income in London now exceeds £3m. profits are shared equally by the partners worldwide , and all new consultants are taken on with the view that they will ultimately become partners .
30 As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) .
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