Example sentences of "on by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the town , the old county boundary is crossed , Caithness being left for Sutherland , both of these ancient counties having now sadly lost their identities in the new-fangled administrative area known as the Highland Region — one hopes that Caithness will for ever remain Caithness and Sutherland Sutherland in the minds of Scotsmen : historical associations should not be trampled on by modern bureaucracy . |
| 2 | He flips way off the handle , often too ridiculous for his own good , but his unfaltering sincerity and self-belief is steadying and dispels any giddy embarrassment brought on by such behaviour . |
| 3 | THE early success of the Darlington Business Link , an initiative designed by the Darlington Business Venture bring local trading companies together , has been latched on by other business organisations around the country . |
| 4 | is carried on by private study under supervision . |
| 5 | They 'd probably switched it on by remote control while he was on his way up . |
| 6 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 7 | The move reflected a growing interest in share trading among the Gulf Arab states as their economies recovered from recession in the mid-1980 's brought on by lower oil prices . |
| 8 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 9 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 10 | We were spurred on by great support |
| 11 | It 's brought on by repetitive typing on a computer or word processor keyboard . |
| 12 | The N A S U W T says about a quarter of its teachers face problems brought on by poor pay and extra responsibilities . |
| 13 | GOLDEN Vale , the Irish dairy products and agribusiness , pushed pre-tax profits on by 18 p.c. to 14.7m last year on sales 41 p.c. ahead at I£296m . |
| 14 | Members sponsored by unions who are turned on by that prospect ? |
| 15 | The image depressed him ; if that was heaven it was best left to the cherubim and seraphim who might be turned on by that sort of thing . |
| 16 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 17 | Learned behaviour in any particular society includes those ideas , techniques and habits which are passed on by one generation to another — in a sense , a social heritage — and which are virtually a set of solutions to problems that , in the course of time , others have met and solved before . |
| 18 | If it is to be worked on by one person for detailed analysis of the language produced perhaps for research purposes , or to help a teacher note common language problems — then audio alone would be sufficient . |
| 19 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 20 | The conference focused on the problem of migratory fish stocks , preyed on by deep sea fleets outside individual countries ' 200-mile exclusive economic zones . |
| 21 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 22 | In 1589 he was nominated by Lord Burghley for a position of a Judge , an office he humbly declined , giving as his reason failing eye sight which hampered his work , a condition brought on by continuous study of old documents . |
| 23 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
| 24 | The following are diagrams of a machine where a letter is put in and operated on by each box in turn as the letter goes along the conveyor belt . |
| 25 | In just one year , 1986 , over 88,000 children and 63,000 adults in the Romanian town of Giurgiu were treated for lung diseases brought on by rampant air pollution . |
| 26 | An inquest has heard that former Oxford United footballer Tommy Caton died from a massive heart attack brought on by chronic alcohol abuse . |
| 27 | In the case of the elder James Stephen 's commitment to antislavery , it came after the experience of working in the West Indies as a lawyer , but more precisely , that experience helped direct into antislavery the expression of his gratitude ‘ for the infinite mercy of God ’ in extricating him from the depths of sin brought on by sexual passion and setting him on the path of prosperity and happiness . |
| 28 | The figures were not hard-edged , like the high boats , but soft patches of bright colour , impinged on by soft sand . |
| 29 | An attack can be brought on by sudden exposure to very cold air but as long as you take your usual medication/inhaler ( with a spare refill ) along with you , there is no reason why you should get into any trouble . |
| 30 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |