Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |
| 2 | Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale . |
| 3 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 4 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 5 | Outside contractors are not brought on to the University 's premises except by prior agreement with the University ; |
| 6 | ‘ You are not walking on to the stage at the Shield , or any theatre in which I have influence , again . |
| 7 | In his paper on ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud established that in depression following the loss of a love-object the ego absorbs that object into itself so that the exaggerated self-reproaches , self-deprecation and self-hatred which typify the condition can be understood as sadistic drives which have been unconsciously directed on to the object whose ‘ shadow has fallen on the ego . ’ |
| 8 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 9 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 10 | Investigations are also going on into the state holding company , Corfo , the housing ministry and a state-owned bank where new officials have uncovered high-handed property transfers and loans made either to the army as an institution or to individual officers . |
| 11 | Actresses are also creeping on to the catwalk , offering their services in exchange for a couple of outfits . |
| 12 | But governments seem unable to learn that the high taxes are inevitably passed on to the consumer as part of the cost of operating a business : Taxes have to be paid , and just as fuel and power bills are borne , tax liability forms part of the overall cost-recovery necessary for the survival of a business . |
| 13 | Maybe , I thought , Ash would be so turned on by the sounds of frantic coupling emanating from Gav and Aunt Janice in the bedroom that she 'd tear my clothes off . |
| 14 | I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’ |
| 15 | This then results in a functional domain that can be directly mapped on to the relevant geometric domain . |
| 16 | Because the majority of tiles are simply hooked on to the battens , it is easier to replace a slipped or broken tile with a new unit than it is to replace a nail-fixed tile . |
| 17 | Mention of ‘ the dark gods of Mexico ’ signals that we are about to move on to the writer for whom his strongest opprobrium is reserved . |
| 18 | The frogs are collected and cooked over a fire until the poisonous , milky skin secretions appear ; these are then scraped on to the weapons . |
| 19 | Experienced advisers never respond to this question , but the unrepresented applicant often responds to the question with bizarre unsupportable allegations of bias and corruption by the employer which are sometimes seized on by the tribunal to the prejudice of the applicant . |
| 20 | Bachelors were rather frowned on in the FCO . |
| 21 | Other recent imports which have yet to aspire to UK marks include a pair of Aeronca 11AC Chiefs , NC3458E and N86359 , which arrived some time ago at Compton Abbas and are now undergoing rebuilt for UK registry while similarly the frame of Stinson 108 N97915 is being slowly worked on in the gliding club hangar at Booker . |
| 22 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 23 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 24 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 25 | Upon arrival at the docks , the Spitfires were immediately hoisted on to the carrier deck . |
| 26 | These were sometimes directly discounted for coin or notes but , as we have seen , were increasingly sent on to the London agent for collection . |
| 27 | The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association . |
| 28 | Angel and Patricio were about to ride on to the field . |
| 29 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 30 | Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy . |