Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 2 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 3 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |
| 4 | When the invoice comes in for payment , this is copied on to the system as well , and Caterdata first searches for the equivalent delivery note to check that Brown is being charged for the right goods . |
| 5 | This was passed on to the Bank but no action was taken — partly , says Bingham , because PW 's report did not convey its concerns ‘ in a blunt and unmistakable way ’ . |
| 6 | Does it mean that something mysterious , even mystical was going on inside the computer ? |
| 7 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 8 | Only a proportion of these are passed on to the next stage of conscious analysis . |
| 9 | He received about 20 letters from ex-regimental POWs who were in need ; these were passed on to the regiment . |
| 10 | When the messages were decoded they emerged as apparently meaningless blocks of letters , and these were passed on to the linguists in Hut 3 who turned them into intelligible German . |
| 11 | The obvious temptation is to dismiss yesterday 's events as an old fashioned share ramp , but there is a niggling feeling that something more substantial is going on behind the scenes . |
| 12 | Many more are coming on to the list . |
| 13 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 14 | Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 , Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 were founded on by the claimant and Slater v. Burnley Corporation by the respondent . |
| 15 | The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication . |
| 16 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 17 | And that is passed on to the consumer in the price tag . |
| 18 | That 's getting on to the right . |
| 19 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 20 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
| 21 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 22 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 23 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |