Example sentences of "be [verb] on [conj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These special deposits are frozen , and can not be drawn on until the authorities choose to release them . |
| 2 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 3 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 4 | Essentially the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal were in error in stating [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 , 218 , that ‘ the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . ’ |
| 6 | No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst . |
| 7 | He was not present when the case was called on but the justices were satisfied that he was aware of the hearing . |