Example sentences of "to be [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 2 | With the exception of relief papers and thick fabrics like hessian or grasscloth , most of these special wallcoverings need to be hung on a smooth and level surface for a satisfactory result . |
| 3 | Flocks need to be hung on a good wall surface . |
| 4 | Events , at last , seemed to be taking on a constructive momentum of their own . |
| 5 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 6 | Then , feeling perhaps that things needed to be put on a proper footing , ‘ Veronica Totteridge . |
| 7 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 8 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 9 | ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’ |
| 10 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
| 11 | Precautions had to be taken on a daily basis : draughts were mortal ; the liver constantly under threat . |
| 12 | Action to deal with offenders was to be taken on a voluntary rather than a court basis where possible . |