Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’
3 Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress .
4 Well it used to be carried on the back and .
5 No deferred tax asset should be carried on the balance sheet .
6 Will he ensure that sufficient facilities are made available north of Manchester and Liverpool to allow people and freight to be carried on the trains ?
7 They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course .
8 The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines .
9 Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s .
10 However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity .
11 As the wind begins to build , the boom should continue to be carried on the centreline and you should not attempt to sheet the main using the vang : because the boom is so long , the mainsheet is a more effective control .
12 A bar will also be carried on the train .
13 The station was filled with hissing steam engines ( well , it was some time back ) and one decided to belch , steam and whistle just as we passed , thus managing to blow the youngest daughter 's mind , who demanded to be carried on the spot — and at frequent intervals during the rest of the adventure .
14 They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line .
15 The heavy-weight champion in loadbearing. 50 kilos can be hung on a screw fastening into FERMACELL with a rawlplug .
16 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 .
17 That 's what seems to worry people — that photography should be hung on a wall , not stood in the middle of a room . ’
18 This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines .
19 Samples can be hung on a rod , in slotted pockets or placed on a lectern .
20 As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up .
21 The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture .
22 Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries .
23 The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach .
24 We will take your pledge to the Earth Summit where it will be hung on the Tree of Life itself .
25 For those of us not lucky enough to have a workshop , it 's an invaluable portable work bench which can be hung on the garage wall , and fits in the car .
26 If paintings or prints are to be hung on the walls it is important to work out beforehand where they are going to go , and to make sure that battens are fixed in these particular areas .
27 Naturally , it must not be put on a square which is on the same row or file or diagonal as another piece .
28 This should not be put on a back burner .
29 Having arranged for it to be put on the grave that afternoon , he returned to Weatherbury in the evening , with a basket of flowering plants .
30 Established to tackle thorny problems , it was hardly surprising that , in the words of Lord Shawcross , ‘ if you could n't find a solution which commanded general support , then at least you 'd find a way which would enable the whole matter to be put on the back shelf . ’
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