Example sentences of "be [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 2 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 3 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 4 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 5 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 6 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 7 | ‘ At the moment the bill looks likely to receive the royal assent in early April , so if the election is later than that then we will be pressing on with the plans . |
| 8 | The draft constitution , to be voted on in the April referendum , would reduce the legislature to a single , bicameral body ; specify the supremacy of federal law over that of constituent republics ; and retain the President as " head of state and the highest executive in Russia " . |
| 9 | ‘ I would prefer the portfolio of the shadow Scottish secretary to be voted on by the Scottish group and the Scottish party . ’ |
| 10 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 11 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 12 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 13 | They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and |
| 14 | We do n't know but I do n't know but that is a doubt as to whether the manufacturing flavour of the past will be carried on through the decade . |
| 15 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 16 | " I shall only allow those boys to use the range who have attained considerable proficiency in their physical exercises and drill ; and all shooting will be carried on under the strictest supervision . |
| 17 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 18 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’ |
| 20 | The new-born child is virtually a clean slate , to be written on by the world . |
| 21 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 24 | Marr ( 1982 ) describes many processes that have yet to be mapped on to the nervous system . |
| 25 | The pace and success of any rehabilitation programme , after a care order is made , are to be decided on by the local authority and only the local authority . |
| 26 | What makes sense therefore , is to put the work organiser at either end of the binder , to build those up , so that pages where you really will be writing on in the binder , which are the diary pages will become elevated towards the middle of the rings , and make that much easier to write on . |
| 27 | ‘ It would lead inevitably to higher costs which would be transferred on to the customer as an increased cost of electricity , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 29 | This clock can be turned on by the START signal , causing the motor to run at a stepping rate equal to the clock frequency , and turned off by the STOP signal , in which case the motor is halted . |
| 30 | 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 . |