Example sentences of "[verb] to be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAMEO is designed to be carried on emergency vehicles and has undergone successful on-scene field trials with the Seattle Fire Department . |
| 2 | Within seconds , the vet announced that the lump was a large umbilical hernia which would need to be operated on , and that he should be castrated as these hernias are hereditary . |
| 3 | Space must be left so that they get an uninterrupted view , extra lighting may need to be laid on and someone must be on hand to make sure the photograph has an accurate caption . |
| 4 | Two thousand more workers are expected to be taken on and the local economy should get a £100 million boost once production reaches capacity . |
| 5 | Two thousand more workers are expected to be taken on and the local economy should get a £100 million boost once production reaches capacity . |
| 6 | They still earn more on average ; their careers often take precedence , especially after children are born ; they still do too little childcare ; some still expect to be waited on . |
| 7 | A stranger asking for employment at the mine would not , unless he was skilled in the mining trade , expect to be taken on in a partnership so readily , though a labour shortage might improve his chances . |
| 8 | This has to be built on . |
| 9 | game in which a ring on a string has to be thrown on to a hook . |
| 10 | Everything has to be taken on trust ; truth is only that which is taken to be true . |
| 11 | Only moss will do and 2 tons of it — freshly handpicked — has to be taken on tour to keep them in peak condition . |
| 12 | This contains a collection of tools for the design and development of parallel applications both in Fortran ( a nod towards the scientific community ) and C. The environment has to be running on at least one processor while the rest of the processors in the cluster need parallel client software installed . |
| 13 | For Davidson , the cost in terms of senior management time has to be looked on as ‘ an investment : you ca n't afford to spend less time on it . |
| 14 | Second , we have to be sufficiently alert : the apparatus has to be switched on . |
| 15 | As the chief location of tin mining , conditions confirm that an abundance of cheap labour tended to stimulate industrial growth , although naturally mineral extraction has to be carried on where the workable reserves happen to be located , using imported labour if necessary , as , it would seem , was precisely what was done in Penwith . |
| 16 | The King 's Government has to be carried on and I think that you are the only man who has a chance of doing this successfully . |
| 17 | So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's . |
| 18 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
| 19 | Eventually a further final , concurrent budget resolution has to be voted on and submitted for the president 's signature , theoretically in time for the beginning of the financial year on 1 October . |
| 20 | The scheme has to be voted on by Headteachers and parents within ten days to guarantee it 's success . |
| 21 | Quite often leases are not granted until some years after the agreement for lease with the result that the fair copy has to be typed on to the landlord 's solicitor 's updated wordprocessing system . |
| 22 | erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes . |
| 23 | Being Nordic , and regarded as a neutral , he had come to be looked on as port representative for foreign ships passing through the Magellan Strait , a sort of consul . |
| 24 | Ryle says of ‘ the elusive concept of I ’ : ‘ Like the shadow of one 's own head , it will not wait to be jumped on . |
| 25 | It only wants to be played on . |
| 26 | Oh I mean I I after we after er we may never see look at each other again so my my job is to is to say right I can forward your name to and say look you know er I will make one or two points this guy er needs to be concentrated on , not as an exception , but you know because we 've taken fliers with people before you 've been very successful . |
| 27 | It is this capacity to give meaning which needs to be held on to in considering human behaviour . |
| 28 | The following information needs to be put on the front page : ( 1 ) The agreement date and the name and address of the seller and the buyer . |
| 29 | There 's an old saying do n't get mad , get even , and the only way we 're gon na get even with this government and we have to learn a lesson from history , is to do to this government what unfortunately we had to do in nineteen seventy nine and if any government deserve to be taken on , then it 's this Tory government . |
| 30 | Furthermore , they were less likely to have applied to be taken on by the firm 's main competitor , which took over its order book , or to look for another job before leaving the firm . |