Example sentences of "be [verb] on and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 2 | Two thousand more workers are expected to be taken on and the local economy should get a £100 million boost once production reaches capacity . |
| 3 | Two thousand more workers are expected to be taken on and the local economy should get a £100 million boost once production reaches capacity . |
| 4 | They would fill the waggons from the hoppers at the shaft stations on Deep Level , then after coupling them together , say , in sets of three , the horse would be hitched on and the train hauled out to the grizzleys at the dressing floors . |
| 5 | But if you were to carry on and the woman was screaming no no no no get off get off get off , as far as I 'm concerned that 's rape . |
| 6 | The film lights were turned on and the crowd briefed about their imminent deaths in the ruckled black velvet . |
| 7 | Each instruction is encoded in such a way that it can be held in a store location , so that the store contains both the data being operated on and the program of instructions specifying the operations to be performed . |
| 8 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 9 | Various walls in the corrie were climbed on and the rock was generally found to be reasonable , but quite loose in places . |
| 10 | The lights were switched on and the harsh familiar outlines of beds , stools and tables forced me back into reality . |
| 11 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 12 | They exist only whilst the computer is turned on and the word-processing program is active . |
| 13 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 14 | A considerable learning process is going on and the outcome — democracy , authoritarianism or prolonged instability — is uncertain ( Sakwa , 1990 , pp. 159–69 ; Smith , 1992 , pp. 129–45 ) . |
| 15 | What if the passenger gets out because he is terrified by what is going on and the car crashes at the next corner ? |
| 16 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 17 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 18 | Can I just mention that time is getting on and the Parish Council still has n't discussed this |
| 19 | On a hill , the petrol pump is switched on and the gas valve is switched off . |
| 20 | At the beginning of the excitation interval the transistor T1 is switched on and the base drive to T2 is enabled . |
| 21 | Essentially the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal were in error in stating [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 , 218 , that ‘ the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . ’ |
| 23 | As a result the climate of collaboration could be full of unresolved questions and tensions , children could be confused about what was going on and the potential of the collaboration could be subverted . |
| 24 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 25 | After some debate Gros Jos was settled on and the campaign team swung into action designing packaging , promotion and even a launch date . |
| 26 | A beaver hit the log that a turtle was sitting on and the log flipped over from the shock . |
| 27 | A key turned in the lock , the top light was switched on and the errant Carole stood on the threshold , her suitcase in hand . |