Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 2 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have to be ascertained , however , that the IRA 's weapons were not being handed on to another group , ’ it was stated . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That had resulted in 150 companies being taken on by five multiples and a 30 per cent increase in product listings . |
| 6 | A male 's vigour in display may also indicate to the female a mate with whose genes hers can mix with a high chance of being passed on through future generations . |
| 7 | In the West , reincarnation is ‘ packaged ’ in more attractive terms , with the talents and gifts of each life being passed on to succeeding lives . |
| 8 | If this happens in a germ cell , it has the chance of being passed on to future generations . |
| 9 | As a result , there are large bills to be paid — bills which are being passed on to ordinary community charge payers . |
| 10 | On 21 December , the fatal day , they were said to have placed the suitcase with its Air Malta tags among the luggage being loaded on to international flights from Luqa airport . |