Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn of 1904 he was still rejecting the mild suggestion from Sviatopolk-Mirsky , very much along the lines of Loris-Melikov 's proposals of 1881 , that representatives of public institutions should be co-opted on to the State Council . |
| 2 | Pétain , he recommended , should now be put in command not only of the Left Bank , but of the Right Bank as well ; the ‘ fatigued ’ General Herr should be kept on for a while as Pétain 's adviser , then quietly ‘ limogé ’ . |
| 3 | A thick lagging jacket should be put on to the hot water tank . |
| 4 | Members requested the committee 's sorrow that the work had begun without permission should be passed on to the county council . |
| 5 | Again these comments should be passed on to the expert . |
| 6 | When Bodie abruptly turned on his heel and went back to his car , she let her head drop slightly , and indicated that she should be helped on into the Embassy building . |
| 7 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 8 | A small firm may feel vulnerable and unable to compete effectively and look to be taken over , though with an agreement that those of its partners who do not retire should be taken on by the new firm . |
| 9 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 10 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 11 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 12 | This development plan is prepared in negotiation with the education and business partnership and must be agreed on by the TPS regional manager . |
| 13 | This means that bilingual education must be focused on from an early age and given a high profile throughout the school system . |
| 14 | The fact that they carry large stocks and are generally located in prestigious and expensive locations means that overheads are high and these must be passed on to the customer . |
| 15 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 16 | Cahervillahow ran no race in the Gold Cup but he might be turned on by the National as was the case with Attitude Adjuster who was also trained by Mouse Morris . |
| 17 | He even suggested that a few such representatives from outside the government might be co-opted on to the State Council , the supreme bureaucratic body beneath the Tsar . |
| 18 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |
| 19 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 20 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 21 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 22 | Once typed on to special paper , the copy could be pasted on to the boards and , with no need for hot metal , or skilled printers , was camera-ready . |
| 23 | So you wo n't have to shuffle the chops or the toast , when you could be getting on with the vegetables . |
| 24 | A fifth of England could be built on by the middle of the next century , according to a report from the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , which finds that countryside is disappearing much faster than official figures suggest . |
| 25 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |
| 26 | On warm days the area between the lawn and water surface had constantly to be watched so that , immediately signs of shrinkage appeared , water could be sprayed on to the puddled surface . |
| 27 | ‘ Next year 's Eurovision could be put on at the King 's Hall . |
| 28 | The problem for Galileo was that , once suspicions were aroused , the machinery of censorship could be switched on at a moment 's notice . |
| 29 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |
| 30 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |