Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government . |
| 2 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
| 3 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 4 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 5 | Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process . |
| 6 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 7 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 8 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 9 | The cash will be decided on by a special committee from the Department of National Heritage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Murdoch said it was too early to say whether the firm could be sold on as a going concern ; much depended on negotiating settlements on contracts . |
| 12 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 13 | Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term . |
| 14 | This means that bilingual education must be focused on from an early age and given a high profile throughout the school system . |
| 15 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |
| 16 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 17 | Here they seem to be thrown on with an easy freedom , there they are adjusted with the nicest touches . |
| 18 | If any pieces of gold leaf have been chipped off to reveal the white base , there are various shades of gilt waxes which can be rubbed on with a soft cloth and then buffed up to a fine lustre . |
| 19 | Failing a settlement , a dispute would be passed on to a binational panel , on which non-NAFTA members could serve to enhance their impartiality . |
| 20 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 21 | In the context of futures trades on recognised or designated investment exchanges , money received by a member firm must often be passed on to an intermediate broker or to the exchange or clearing house concerned where it will be combined in an account with funds attributable to other clients . |
| 22 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 23 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 24 | The blinds can be fitted on to a wooden batten with touch-and-close fastener for easy removal , and are operated by pulling up cords which pass through rings on the back of the blind , then through screw-eyes on the underside of the batten . |
| 25 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 26 | And the leisure department is to be ordered on to a tough economy drive , paring back all unnecessary expenditure . |
| 27 | Sometimes they were to be found in a corner , solemnly talking to a rather battered doll whose arms and legs were always popping off , waiting to be clipped on by a passing ‘ brother ’ who was inevitably obliging . |