Example sentences of "[verb] [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 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | And you might say that the word has not been mounted on there . |
| 6 | Yet this knowledge has not been passed on to the laity . |
| 7 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 8 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |
| 9 | This has already been touched on in Chapter 7 . |
| 10 | The world 's economic relation to Europe has already been touched on ; it was not simply a matter of one-way domination . |
| 11 | Each has already been touched on in passing , but something more needs to be said . |
| 12 | The question of retaining a national scheme rather than creating smaller schemes has already been touched on . |
| 13 | The question of conflict within the marketing function has already been touched on . |
| 14 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 15 | In particular , perhaps , there will be the question of agreeing the partners ' profit shares , the problem of which has already been touched on in Chapter 4 . |
| 16 | ( a ) Expressio unius est exclusio alterius This principle of construction has already been touched on . |
| 17 | The money has already been agreed on , so not much room for controversy there . |
| 18 | Oxford District Health authority say they ca n't commentbecause of the threat of legal action , but they say Jasmine 's case has already been acted on . |
| 19 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 20 | The effect of such narrow specialization in subject content and style of teaching has already been remarked on . |
| 21 | Another factor which has reinforced this and which has hardly been remarked on in this context is the telephone . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's taken this long to get over it and , as many good athletes have discovered to their cost , the temptation has always been to carry on training . |
| 23 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 24 | Progress has already , has also been made on erm , the army 's pressed for County Council support to launch their Best Trained Workforce of Britain promotion , and , and a day 's been set , the twenty second of April , far forward . |
| 25 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 26 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 27 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 28 | Online catalogue research at the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) has now been going on , mainly funded by the British Library Research and Development Department , for about five years . |
| 29 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 30 | The petition has now been passed on to Durham County Council . ’ |