Example sentences of "be [verb] on [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 2 | Following the accession of George I , he seconded a motion of 12 April 1717 that English trade to the Baltic could not be carried on unless the king of Sweden was brought to reason , and during the South Sea crisis he advocated strong measures against the directors . |
| 3 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 4 | As the chief location of tin mining , conditions confirm that an abundance of cheap labour tended to stimulate industrial growth , although naturally mineral extraction has to be carried on where the workable reserves happen to be located , using imported labour if necessary , as , it would seem , was precisely what was done in Penwith . |
| 5 | Without the INKEY(O) command at the end of the program line , print echo would not be turned on until the program attempted to read from the keyboard or the program terminated and BBCBASIC(Z80) returned to the immediate mode . |
| 6 | These special deposits are frozen , and can not be drawn on until the authorities choose to release them . |
| 7 | A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo . |
| 8 | Since the electoral registration officer is authorised by statute to sell copies of the electoral register , address lists from this source are fairly and lawfully obtained ; objections to trading in other address lists can be circumvented if , at the time of the initial collection of information , it is made clear that addresses will be passed on unless the data subject expressly objects . |
| 9 | If , for example , a client discloses to a solicitor , in confidence , the fact that a child is being abused by another person , this information can only be passed on if the public interest in protecting children from serious harm outweighs the public interest in maintaining confidentiality between solicitor and client . |
| 10 | This means that a decision must be taken on whether the in-use setting can be recreated in the studio or whether the photography should be done on location . |
| 11 | Higher levels of language can not be started on until the syntactic processing is complete , since the relationships that they are concerned with are denoted by structural properties of the input . |
| 12 | When the system is decelerating the motor must produce a negative torque and therefore each phase must be switched on after the rotor has passed the phase equilibrium position . |
| 13 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 14 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 15 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 16 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 17 | The two hoses are then disconnected , though Mr Garnett recommends that the cap be left on until the pack is needed again . |
| 18 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 19 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 20 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |