Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 2 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 3 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 4 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 5 | The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series . |
| 6 | Following the data which was being projected on to the tiny screen , it was clear that the telemetry and guidance modules had performed according to specification . |
| 7 | Designed as a ‘ fun ’ aeroplane it first flew in 1934 or 1935 , subsequently being taken on by the Soviet Air Force as the standard advanced trainer for fighter pilots with production totalling 1,241 by early 1940 . |
| 8 | He 's studying for a PHD in Biophysics aOOxford university and next year he 's being taken on by the American space agency NASA . |
| 9 | This measure was intended to eliminate corruption and prevent unrecoverable loans being passed on to the Central Bank . |
| 10 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 11 | If ever a stage production was set to enjoy a long run , it must be the work being put on by the Glasgow-based ensemble company , The Golden Age Theatre . |
| 12 | ‘ What you mean is : there 's no chance of my being kept on after the three years are up . ’ |
| 13 | The top deck is being lowered on to the bottom deck of Standard 152 by this unusual structure outside the Blackpool Works , after the new car 's arrival from Motherwell in 1925 . |