Example sentences of "be [be] [vb pp] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEACHERS of young children are being looked on by the Government as ‘ not a lot more than well-disciplined child-minders , ’ a senior Belfast education adviser claimed today . |
| 2 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 3 | And we try to explain it by saying the craft is accelerating — it 's being pushed on by the rockets placed at that end of the craft . |
| 4 | There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it . |
| 5 | He 's studying for a PHD in Biophysics aOOxford university and next year he 's being taken on by the American space agency NASA . |
| 6 | This is clearly linked to Part 1 , since what is being projected on to the person with an impairment by ‘ able-bodied ’ culture is in itself changing . |
| 7 | In the door of the shop stands the owner , with the Company 's Ration Warrant Officer conducting individual qualitative and quantitative checks on what is being loaded on to the vehicle . |
| 8 | A hot potato is being passed on to the courts and ministers are safe in the knowledge they can hold up their hands and say : ‘ We tried everything we could ’ . ’ |
| 9 | As the BSI 's Chris Sheldon , says : ‘ The challenge for many companies is that a new aspect of business life , the environment , is being entered on to the balance sheet for the first time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " It was as if some Technicolour epic of Cecil B. De Milles was being projected on to the screen of the vast plain . " |
| 13 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal held , however , that there was no partnership in existence , since no business was being carried on by the defendant and X ; on the contrary , the goods had been ordered in preparation for the formation of a company , and such transactions could not be considered as ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 15 | From 1165 to 1299 , considerable prison building was being carried on throughout the country with Rochester being among the earliest in I 165 . |
| 16 | Carl , at No. 38 with Does It Feel Good To You , only realised he was being spied on by the law when police pulled him up in his car . |