Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | to be getting back on her feet alright . |
| 2 | The new dispenser system is set to be phased in on other BNFL sites at a later date . |
| 3 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 4 | This applies both to standard reports that may be added to a report library to be called off on demand and to ad hoc reports that are produced to answer a special request . |
| 5 | It would therefore appear that where , for example , a solicitor on behalf of his client commences a personal injury action which includes a claim for damages of less than £50,000 by way of writ in the High Court , the proceedings are bound to be struck out on the basis that the solicitor ought to have known of the provision contained in art 5(1) of the 1991 Order . |
| 6 | This group also had to be made up on strict equal-opportunities lines , with the requisite number of minorities and women . |
| 7 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 8 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 9 | If it is the defining error or empiricism to assume that only statements meant to be checked up on deserve serious attention , it is the defining error or the new French criticism ( Foucault , Piaget , Barthes , Derrida and others ) to assume that because some statements can not be verified , no statements can , and hence that all statements rail to refer , leaving us with discourse — language without anchorage in time , psyche or history . |
| 10 | Indeed every second customer is probably just like me , but the charade is going to be played out on the basis that I am being difficult . |
| 11 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 12 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |
| 13 | The mouse is bred with the genetic defect but remains alive , enabling potential cures to be tested out on it . |
| 14 | The bird 's gon na have to be ended up on a Sunday dinner somewhere in n it ? |
| 15 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 16 | And to add to the Blues ' tale of woe , Glen Keeley became the first player to be sent off on his debut in a Merseyside derby . |
| 17 | This policy is back in the desk drawer at the moment , but it is clearly going to be placed back on the table , since the government is even considering charging thirty pound a night for N H S beds . |
| 18 | Excise duties are taxes on specific home-produced or imported goods , with ‘ cigarettes , booze and petrol ’ being the usual suspects to be rounded up on each Budget day . |
| 19 | Mike needs to be filled in on the latest developments . ’ |
| 20 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |
| 21 | Al Capone need not be the only gangster to be caught out on his tax returns . |
| 22 | When the statement had been issued , Mr Telford allowed his pistol to be hauled up on a rope . |
| 23 | A telephone statement enables the last 25 recorded transactions to be read back on the phone . |
| 24 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 25 | It seems that matters have fallen behind schedule and need to be put back on the rails . |
| 26 | If the ban is approved , the contractor would have the chance to reapply in two years to be put back on the list . |
| 27 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 28 | My thoughts were already perfectly organised , just waiting to be put down on paper . ’ |
| 29 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 30 | After the previous evening , too many conflicting emotions seemed to be crowding in on her , and she was n't sure she knew how to deal with them , or indeed , she thought , stepping out of her jogging pants and T-shirt to reveal the figure-hugging jade-green swimsuit beneath , whether there was anything to deal with , other than her own imagination . |