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

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1 In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage .
2 Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles .
3 The immediate ‘ bone ’ offered to Mrs Castle was the phasing out of 1,000 pay beds , but that thereafter further pay beds would only be phased out on the direction of the newly established board , with a number of criteria required to justify the release of additional beds : the principal one being the establishment of an alternative source of private beds in the locality of change .
4 ‘ Lili Marlene ’ was constantly being moaned out on the radio , but when I was with my friends , the ones who had gramophones , we played American records which their parents had acquired years before the war .
5 The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week .
6 As you know , something 's wrong with the computerized route-finder on the Glory ; one 's already been found up on the hill .
7 Many statutes can already be summoned up on a video screen at the touch of a few buttons , and complete coverage is in the offing ; but , since the use of these computerised systems is expensive , the old-fashioned methods will long be with us .
8 As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables .
9 ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis .
10 Exploration has also been carried out on the ophiolite complexes of the Lizard , Ballantrae and Shetland where minor PGE enrichment has been discovered .
11 I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’
12 Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings .
13 And you may also be held up on the A three six one at Wardington where there are some temporary traffic lights , that 's just north of Banbury .
14 The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs .
15 Until fairly recently , forestry has often been carried out on a very big scale , with tens of thousands of hectares being covered and public access made difficult .
16 He really is thrown in on the form of Jokester was out of the handicap when an excellent runner-up that day , and now races off a stone lower mark .
17 Even Egyptians , whose soldiers may well be sent in on the allies ' side , hate the spectacle of a fellow Muslim , a defier of Zionists , being shot up by America 's whizz-bang weaponry .
18 Blair kicked a penalty five minutes later , and five minutes before half-time Hastings scored the easiest of pushover tries after centre Paul Archer had initially been held up on the line .
19 Seston T O N So sea water analysis then is carried out on the water which passes through the forty five mu filter .
20 Appraisal will ordinarily be carried out on an annual basis .
21 Forty minutes later Fred Winter was again being led in on the winner , for his wasting to ride Beaver II had paid off .
22 A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion .
23 The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date .
24 We may see a road accident but we shall never be sprawled out on the tarmacadam like that .
25 Mind the swings , mind the shit , mind the psychopaths , sadists and prowling malignants , mind the drunks who should never be allowed out on the road , mind the child molesters , torturers and Satanists , mind the mass slayers and maimers of innocent victims , mind the drunk drivers , mind the aeroplanes that fall from the sky and the ones that are aimed at you , MIND THE HOLES IN THE UNIVERSE , PRESTON , MIND YOU DO N'T DROP THROUGH .
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