Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It refers to the duty being placed on the new committee , ( a ) to monitor the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland ; and , ( b ) to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State regarding the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland . " |
| 2 | Extend the back leg and slide it backwards , the free hand being placed on the upper thigh of the extended leg . |
| 3 | Emphasis is being placed on the cognitive basis of social identity in contrast to the more familiar emphasis on evaluations . |
| 4 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 5 | Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas . |
| 6 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 7 | The exchange was contingent upon planning permission for building being given on the vacated site . |
| 8 | His own notes on the plans for Shotesham indicate his great attention to detail : ‘ Particular care must be taken in finishing the floor of the Nursery etc to prevent any Noise being heard on the Principal Floor . ’ |
| 9 | The instructions given to the Dutch negotiators at the Munster peace congress which began its work in 1645 insisted on their being treated on the same footing as those of Venice ; and by the end of the century Dutch ambassadors in Paris were claiming royal honours . |
| 10 | There 's clearly , there 's clearly a no turning back group being formed on the Tory back benches with those Councillors who feel aggrieved after the night of the long knives . |
| 11 | Work is being undertaken on the feeding behaviour of ungulates and how feed quality affects optimum body size , a topic of both ecological and agricultural importance . |
| 12 | Being situated on the opposite side of the Fleet , it was approached from the College buildings by a strongly-built Rustic-bridge which spanned the river just in front of the Forge at the north end of the Ride … |
| 13 | Offshore commissioning and hook-up is progressing and production and injection wells are being drilled on the Shell-operated project . |
| 14 | If you are genuinely interested in being included on the national register of bone marrow donors please contact the Ohd on |
| 15 | A large new foodmarket was being built on the opposite corner , with the land around it open for parking . |
| 16 | This approach results in the freedom values of the primary model also being imposed on the inserted model . |
| 17 | As a result they show subtle differences , some being positioned on the upper fin , some on the rear of the main trunk and some on the tail-stem . |
| 18 | One of the two crew , the braver , told us it was on account of the work being done on the new landing stage that access was impossible . |
| 19 | The output was restricted due to work being done on the Main Boiler Pump Feed . |
| 20 | As Her Majesty 's Government have based their aid to Kenya on progress being made on the political front , presumably there is now scope for increasing that aid to a country which is an island of stability in a troubled area . |
| 21 | I have no later than half an hour ago contacted my office and there has been no official communication re any decision being made on the royal dockyard and the capacity none whatsoever . |
| 22 | Earlier I drew a distinction between sexism that occurs in ‘ unregulated ’ contexts ( like the use of endearment terms to women ) and that which has acquired the force of a rule by being written on the linguistic equivalent of tablets of stone , the dictionary and the grammar book or usage guide . |
| 23 | ’ ’ He licked his thumb and turned the paper , ‘ … and flummery ’ , ’ he added , the last bit being written on the next page . |
| 24 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 25 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | Its internal organization , hierarchies , and values struck Melvyn Bragg , who joined the Corporation from Oxford in 1961 , as being modelled on the public school system : |
| 27 | Those who pass along it without divergence , however , remain unaware of the interesting features that give Ingleborough its unique distinction , hazards and difficulties also being avoided on the straightforward climb . |
| 28 | On the Cambrian lines , a basic diet of 156 's and 155's was promised with some 153 's being used on the Cambrian Coast line services . |
| 29 | With the risk of a product being used on the wrong surface or half-full containers being topped up with incompatible chemicals . |
| 30 | Habermas calls action oriented to success ‘ instrumental ’ when it can be understood as following technical rules , and can be evaluated in terms of efficiency ( typically when operations are being performed on the physical world ) . |