Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] on [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 and glue , they 've all got ta be glued on him .
2 The baby 's attention is drawn to the potty before being placed on it : the aim was to teach the babies to reach out for the potty to indicate they wanted to use it .
3 In his haste to be gone on his mysteriously urgent errand , only the briefest of exchanges had taken place between the dark Maltese and her friends , while she was being returned like a sack of damp laundry to its rightful owners …
4 That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her .
5 The first time the adventurers make any attempt to break it , tell them that the figure of Khorne appears to move in the frame and the eyes of the god appear to be turned on them .
6 And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them .
7 There does not seem to be this intense aggression in my aquarium , obviously the size of the tank does give quite a lot of room for manoeuvre , but as I said earlier , as I add more Emperors , a close watch will have to be kept on them .
8 After six weeks Moz began to mellow , and the headstall no longer had to be kept on him .
9 They are not to be brought here unless the court first grants leave for the proceedings to be served on them abroad .
10 Where a company incorporated outside Great Britain establishes a place of business in Great Britain it must deliver to the Registrar of Companies a list of names and addresses of one or more persons resident in Great Britain and authorised to accept on the company 's behalf service of process and any notices required to be served on it .
11 did you ever raise with him back in January nineteen eighty eight something that you and Mr had both raised before , namely that what goes into the brochure is not to be relied on you 've got to look at the solicitors correspondence , to interpret what is in the brochure , did you ? , did you ever raise that with Mr the solicitor 's correspondence ?
12 It is often a good idea to remind the expert that if their report is to be relied on it must be disclosed to the other side .
13 This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them .
14 But provision of a level playing-field can not determine what game is to be played on it .
15 Section 1(1) refers to dangers due to the state of the premises or things done or omitted to be done on them .
16 The Act will apply in respect of any risk of their suffering injury on the premises by reason of any danger due to the state of the premises or to things done or omitted to be done on them ( s. 1(1) ( a ) ) .
17 CA has also set up a similar bundling agreement for CA-Unicenter with Sequent Computer Systems Inc , however , this version still has a lot of work to be done on it and is n't likely to appear until this time in 1993 .
18 All of the contradiction comes because when the citizens charter was announced and the Prime Minister increased the costs of the Cabinet Office by £800,000 to pay for the work to be done on it , bringing the cost of the Cabinet Office to £22.5 million , it was announced that the PA consultancy report had been commissioned .
19 It was further felt that in some cases the lowest tender tended to gain the contract at the expense of better quality work because of the financial restrictions the Housing Executive Board have allowed to be placed on them .
20 All they could imagine was that some new sort of tax was to be imposed on them .
21 And I think you can see why I call it pessimistic because , basically it says in the Anglican prayer book , there is no good in us , what 's in us is , is bad , in the sense of anti-social egoistic , and if people are going to cooperate and if there 's gon na be social order , then as it were , it has to be imposed on them .
22 Instead of completely introjecting the mother and emasculating himself in his unconscious desire to be revenged on her , the believer can make do with an identification with a mythical son who has done just this ( the crucified Christ ) .
23 The Dalai Lama should be congratulated on the great honour which is to be bestowed on him , and the Prime Minister or the Foreign Secretary should make it clear that he will be warmly welcomed when next he is able to visit London .
24 If he allowed the headstall to be put on him , he was rewarded by being put out in the paddock , or brought in for his dinner , or taken for a ride .
25 Eileen Laughton , a former Panel member who respected him greatly said he was worried about the pressure that was likely to be put on him if he did n't toe the local authority line .
26 A guard was to be put on it and the vicar arranged to ring the church bells if it was attacked .
27 The Unionist government would try to make the minimum concessions and strong pressure would have to be put on it :
28 It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events .
29 Building society interest is taxed under a special arrangement , and basic-rate tax does not have to be paid on it , but a tax refund can not be claimed .
30 It 's ridiculous , when you take into account all the parking that 's got to be provided on it .
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