Example sentences of "on by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special type of outside light is the security light , which is switched on by a passive infra-red ( PIR ) sensor ( usually , but not always , part of the light fitting ) , whenever someone approaches . |
| 2 | Spurred on by a new hope , she ran across the road and scrambled up the smooth grassy side of the hillock . |
| 3 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |
| 4 | Often , nowadays , he did n't have to do it ; relatives might live in different parts of the country , and usually they were best called on by a uniformed man . |
| 5 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 6 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |
| 7 | He was driven on by a potent sense of mission and a deep faith in his own ability to secure what he wanted . |
| 8 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 9 | Sharon Griffiths , who was fifteen , died instantly when this Datsun Cherry driven by her sister Sandra was hit head on by a stolen car . |
| 10 | MacArthur was spurred on by a strong sense of destiny and ambition . |
| 11 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 12 | However , the results of an autopsy carried out by an Israeli and a US pathologist on Feb. 7 indicated that whilst Akawi had been beaten he had died as a result of a " cardiac insufficiency " brought on by a serious heart condition . |
| 13 | Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill . |
| 14 | I asked him , ‘ Have you got any old letters in the attic ? ’ and he said ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ , is his mildly amazed recall of this historian 's jackpot — one which he then capitalised on by a determined digging out of all the other surviving relatives , enabling the construction of the definitive Shrewsbury family tree in the book . |
| 15 | Ignorance of the union world was underlined early on by a detailed target list itemizing the amount sought from each union . |
| 16 | Mark Skinner and Paul Higham , both 23 , were airlifted to Lismore Hospital with multiple injuries after their vehicle was hit head on by a runaway car in northern New South Wales . |
| 17 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 18 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 19 | Depression is sometimes brought on by a sudden change in one 's life , such as coming into a Home . |
| 20 | The cash will be decided on by a special committee from the Department of National Heritage . |
| 21 | His intellectual and emotional itinerary between 1924 and 1927 is the record of a deepening crisis brought on by a growing realisation of the political and social dimension of his current lifestyle , an awareness that his pursuit of academic excellence and success had implicated him personally in a way of life that contradicted , subverted and emasculated the values and beliefs of his own social origins . |
| 22 | The ‘ bad mood ’ syndrome brought on by an offensive odour and the resulting symptoms of annoyance can lead to antisocial behaviour ; relationships with family , friends and others become strained , the persons most affected perhaps blaming other members of the family for the position in which they find themselves and which they consider intolerable , leading in extreme cases to marriage problems or at least much unhappiness . |
| 23 | Social injustice is brought on by an economic policy perpetuated by the Tories and their . |
| 24 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 25 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 26 | Urged on by an expectant crowd , Leicester continued to press forward and Thompson 's 20-yard shot was tipped over the bar one-handed by Nixon to concede one of several successive corners . |
| 27 | This aspect of his practice is only just beginning to change , but he intends to persevere with it , spurred on by the personal satisfaction he has derived from ‘ seeing them do their maths ’ . |
| 28 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |
| 29 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 30 | That has been spurred on by the successful growth of that sector in Britain . |