Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 2 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 3 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 5 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |
| 6 | Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient . |
| 7 | Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat . |
| 8 | To make sure the system is working says stocktaking exercises are carried out on a regular basis and there are random checks of the collections . |
| 9 | Did you realise that 43 per cent of all sociological surveys are carried out on the M1 , M4 and M6 ? |
| 10 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |
| 11 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 12 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 13 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 14 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 15 | They will also fit the 6 cylinder 109 if the bell housing is changed and the engine mounts are moved back on the chassis . |
| 16 | There is a good programme of daily activities in the Home , and all these are written up on a large board in Peter 's office . |
| 17 | Green stars are allocated at these shows and are made up on a points basis . |
| 18 | 3-dimensional plans are drawn up on a computer . |
| 19 | The procedures of the 1981 Act ensure that statements are drawn up on the basis of the pupil 's individual needs , but with the general aim of ensuring , as far as possible , an education comparable with that of the pupil 's age group in the mainstream . |
| 20 | Continuous flow machines form a tunnel made up of separate sections , wash and rinse , which operate continuously while items are drawn through on a link conveyor . |
| 21 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 22 | As the ballot papers are going out on the twenty sixth ? |
| 23 | Howard sits up front with a shotgun grazing his earlobe , whilst Miki , Emma , Chris and myself are squashed in on the back seat , staring through the grating at the road ahead . |
| 24 | And the more poor little Britain takes a battering , the more bombs that are called down on the wreck of London , the sooner it will be . |
| 25 | Inside the hive , where the dance is performed , it is dark and the bees are moving around on the vertical wall of the honeycomb . |
| 26 | Decompression times are scrolled through on the display for repetitive dive planning . |
| 27 | But they , the Conservatives are cutting down on the health service and everything else and the schools |
| 28 | I hope all local areas will think about acquiring a stock of good movement photographs of local people which could be sent to the press in support of a feature — many local papers are cutting back on the expense of sending photographers out to events but are delighted to use suitable contributions . |
| 29 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 30 | Now the crack Flexible Anti-Smuggling Teams are closing in on the dealers ' ’ rat-runs ’ . |