Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 3 | After cutting the material is passed through to the machining room where the sails are sewn up and the hanks etc. are put on . |
| 4 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
| 5 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 6 | Previously , the shoe had only been tied on and this greatly impeded the animal 's progress . |
| 7 | But the process has also been a more subtle one , as new initiatives have apparently been tacked on to existing local government . |
| 8 | And er that ai n't been long been built on , that had n't , nineteen er twenty nine those houses were built , do you see ? |
| 9 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 10 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 11 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 12 | The graph of the cratering rate for the Moon ( Figure 8.1 ) can only be relied on to give a very general indication of the ages of the various cratered regions on the other terrestrial planets , even if considerable care is taken in adapting the data to these planets . |
| 13 | The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles . |
| 14 | The many rules and regulations concerning licensing will only be touched on in this section ; they form in themselves a considerable volume of law . |
| 15 | They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and |
| 16 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 17 | If , for example , a client discloses to a solicitor , in confidence , the fact that a child is being abused by another person , this information can only be passed on if the public interest in protecting children from serious harm outweighs the public interest in maintaining confidentiality between solicitor and client . |
| 18 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 19 | This task can only be embarked on in collaboration with the head , preferably with the support of other staff members , and is vital to the whole LMS operation . |
| 20 | You will only be taken on if you can convince your employer of this keenness . |
| 21 | The variable-reluctance stepping motor has at least three phases , but the phase currents need only be switched on or off ; the current polarity is irrelevant to torque production . |
| 22 | As most villagers work in the fields during the day , the supply need only be switched on between five in the evening and eight in the morning . |
| 23 | He is talking this time of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant , only a few of which can perhaps be seized on as crime short stories before their time . |
| 24 | But a solicitous critic ( Amis has had his share , for all the faces he makes ) could perhaps be counted on to demonstrate that the novelist is sorry that Patrick is sexist . |
| 25 | This , like the bass drum , has two ‘ heads ’ , or vibrating surfaces , the upper head only being played on . |
| 26 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 27 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 28 | They came on the scene when the private telegraph companies were ‘ nationalised ’ and integrated into the Post Office , the women literally being taken on as a ‘ job lot ’ with their male colleagues . |
| 29 | By the end of the 1970s , such of these early headhunting characters who still survived could be found occupying the positions of non-executive directors and chairmen of search firms , lending respectability and weight but not necessarily being called on for practical help ; by the 1980s most had disappeared . |
| 30 | His grandfather enjoyed a gamble — the trick all along was to keep on increasing the size of the farm . |