Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1968 four Board of Trade advance factories had been developed and allocated on the Bassington Estate . |
| 2 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 3 | The productivity of Buenos Aires-1 , which had been drilled , tested and suspended , was reduced dramatically once it had been completed and put on production — a fact which has challenged production teams . |
| 4 | Others have been caught and left on the ground several hundred yards from a river . |
| 5 | The examinations are organised and administered on behalf of the Department of Transport for engineers and deck officers of the merchant navy and fishing fleets . |
| 6 | Johnson Matthey 's R&D activities are organised and co-ordinated on a worldwide basis . |
| 7 | I have been bruised and cut on several occasions . |
| 8 | It has been rebuilt and extended on many occasions with the passing centuries , much of the present buildings dating from the middle part of the 19th century . |
| 9 | Elections can be and are won or lost on television . |
| 10 | When particulars have been presented and confirmed on behalf of both seller and buyer , and subject to the payment of initial and variation margin , LCH will register the contract . |
| 11 | You can write the text and draw illustrations using other applications packages and then import them into frames that are positioned and sized on the page . |
| 12 | Much has been said and written on the potential adverse effects of screen flickers , unfiltered light , and the benefits of different working postures . |
| 13 | Despite the millions of words that have been written and spoken on the subject of ‘ 1992 ’ , there still appears to be much more to be said on the subject . |
| 14 | Shops that are vandalised or set on fire . |
| 15 | Soon after your arrival you 're interviewed and put on what 's called ‘ house assessment ’ — house cleaning for the first five weeks — whilst the screws work out what would be the best work for you . |
| 16 | An inquest has been opened and adjourned on a nurse from Gloucester who was killed by terrorists while on holiday in Egypt . |
| 17 | In this way the diverse opinions and findings of a topic are high-lighted and impressed on your consciousness , as a supplement to the printed textbooks that should be your guides . |
| 18 | If , for example , a firm with its headquarters in London is running manufacturing plants in the UK , Third World countries and elsewhere , if it is using parts and even designs originating abroad , if its shares are owned by people and institutions of all nationalities and are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange as much as in London , why should its output and its profits be counted as part of the United Kingdom economy ? |
| 19 | Mills and Boon are bought and sold on the basis of a brand-name , not an individual author . |
| 20 | Your regular monthly contribution or lump sum payment purchases units in a large pooled fund from which equities [ stocks and shares ] are bought and sold on your behalf . |
| 21 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 22 | As with the official curriculum , much has been researched and written on the ways teacher-pupil interaction can be different for boys than for girls , and a brief initial summary will suffice . |
| 23 | How the ‘ fielders ’ are mounted and wired on the pitch panel . |
| 24 | 7.9.2 to procure either that the interest of the Tenant and any undertenant and its or their mortgagees are noted or indorsed on the policy or that the insurers issue a waiver of subrogation rights as regards the Tenant any undertenant and its or their mortgagees |
| 25 | It has been piloted and commented on in a number of institutions already . |
| 26 | Predencia Gabbidon , training manager from Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre who organised the conference with funding from the SSI , said : ‘ With the new-build programme due it is important these issues are raised and taken on board at the design stage . ’ |
| 27 | He had been born and bred on the river , but had never seen anything like it before . |
| 28 | This severely distorts the incentive system within the organization : since their efforts are judged and rewarded on the basis of functional criteria , middle managers have the incentive to pursue functional ( sub-global ) goals beyond levels that are optimal from the corporate ( global ) point of view . |
| 29 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 30 | Goods are binned and entered on the ‘ bin cards ’ ( Fig. 6.16 ) . |