Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were told that there would be a General 's inspection and the searchlight had to be turned on at a specified time , but when the great moment came we could not start the engine that drove the dynamo and darkness still prevailed . |
| 2 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 3 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 4 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 5 | Take 3in tip cutting of pelargoniums intended to be grown on as standards . |
| 6 | A magical brazier in the north-west corner has a number of branding irons heating in it , and next to it is an inlaid marble slab with iron supports which has room for a body to be strapped on to it , plus a tray of gleaming metal scalpels , thumbscrews , small-bone crunching implements , pincers and similar implements . |
| 7 | This time we have by no means exhausted the resources of invention , but these possibilities contain perhaps enough plausibility to be getting on with . |
| 8 | Some of us have work to be getting on with . ’ |
| 9 | Now , I have much to be getting on with and would appreciate your not following me about and interrupting me like this . |
| 10 | You know — unrequited love , more unrequited love , and a bit of rampant lust to be getting on with . |
| 11 | Suddenly , a wave of tiredness swept through her and she closed her eyes for a moment , during which the girl remained quiet , but visibly agitated and eager to be getting on with her work . |
| 12 | This was enough for Cassie to be getting on with , but soon another of her private fantasies was to be shattered . |
| 13 | But Teddy Hargreaves will do to be getting on with . ’ |
| 14 | Left materials plus work to be getting on with next week . |
| 15 | ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch . |
| 16 | I just thought you had enough to be getting on with , what with Jennifer . |
| 17 | to be getting on with it . |
| 18 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 19 | Demonstrators calling for World Motor Racing Champion , Nigel Mansell , to be kept on by Williams gathered outside the team 's Didcot headquarters . |
| 20 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 21 | Marr ( 1982 ) describes many processes that have yet to be mapped on to the nervous system . |
| 22 | The New Yorker of November 24th lamented that the NSC would not reveal even the age or the precise employment of this man , ‘ who seems to be called on to act as a secret surrogate for something like the entire United States government ’ . |
| 23 | Whatever happens , Tendulkar is no doubt resting easily at night safe in the knowledge that Geoffrey Boycott has already emerged as a sort of godfather figure , willing to be called on to help at any time , to be party to any photo opportunity that may be at hand . |
| 24 | It is common commercial practice for the auditors of a private company to be called on to value the shares . |
| 25 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 26 | The pace and success of any rehabilitation programme , after a care order is made , are to be decided on by the local authority and only the local authority . |
| 27 | That did n't have to be sewn on by hand then |
| 28 | It 's a taste that seems to be catching on in Japan , replacing a traditional fancy for whale meat , which is now priced well out of the range of most Japanese pockets . |
| 29 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 30 | The new-born child is virtually a clean slate , to be written on by the world . |