Example sentences of "on by a [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 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |
| 6 | He was driven on by a potent sense of mission and a deep faith in his own ability to secure what he wanted . |
| 7 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 8 | Sharon Griffiths , who was fifteen , died instantly when this Datsun Cherry driven by her sister Sandra was hit head on by a stolen car . |
| 9 | MacArthur was spurred on by a strong sense of destiny and ambition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ignorance of the union world was underlined early on by a detailed target list itemizing the amount sought from each union . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 18 | Depression is sometimes brought on by a sudden change in one 's life , such as coming into a Home . |
| 19 | The cash will be decided on by a special committee from the Department of National Heritage . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Social injustice is brought on by an economic policy perpetuated by the Tories and their . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |