Example sentences of "it be [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 2 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 3 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 4 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 5 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 6 | And now ’ — The Fat Controller consulted his watch ; an endomorphic gold Rolex had replaced the full hunter — ‘ it 's getting on for nine-thirty . |
| 7 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 8 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 9 | And it 's catching on with arachnaphobics everywhere . |
| 10 | If a woman makes the slightest mistake it 's pounced on as evidence of her general incompetence . |
| 11 | Leanne : It 's joined on to me , it starts at my feet . |
| 12 | By the way , it 's laid on at La Motte today , that large farm near the digging ops . |
| 13 | You see , traditionally the eldest son of the family gives it to his bride-to-be , then eventually it 's handed on to their eldest son . |
| 14 | It 's brought on by exercise and excitement . ’ |
| 15 | It 's brought on by repetitive typing on a computer or word processor keyboard . |
| 16 | Asthma kills two thousand people a year , but the new research shows that the gene which can cause it is only active when it 's passed on by the mother . |
| 17 | Put your hand on and see if it 's sticks on like burning flesh . |
| 18 | it 's following on from what Geoff was saying er and I think it 's perhaps worth mentioning something about coastal zone management and estuary management . |
| 19 | It looks as if it 's reeling on to that spool . |
| 20 | It 's going on for quite some time . |
| 21 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 22 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 23 | It 's a shame it 's going on under a microscope , spotlight or whatever but erm . |
| 24 | Yes it 's going on to word processor . |
| 25 | This is a personal war for each one of us and it 's going on inside us all the time . |
| 26 | In fact , it is n't in a theatre at all — it 's put on at irregular intervals by a group of lawyers in the sedate and sheltered surroundings of the Temple , and it 's called Seminars for the Expert Witness . |
| 27 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 28 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 29 | said : ‘ Our main objective is to ensure we retain the business achieved by ICI when it is transferred on to Courtaulds Aerospace sites or on to a Courtaulds Aerospace product . |
| 30 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |