Example sentences of "to be [verb] on [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Some companies take this responsibility out of the salesperson 's hands and produce daily worksheets showing who is to be called on and in what order .
2 These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores .
3 The physical presence in the territory of the country of establishment must therefore be such as to enable such effective and genuine activities to be pursued on or from the territory of the country of establishment .
4 ‘ Even if you woke the child up to clean his or her teeth , some sugar is bound to be retained on or between the teeth . ’
5 I prefer to apply the principle that a promise intended to be binding , intended to be acted on and in fact acted on , is binding so far as its terms properly apply .
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