Example sentences of "be be [vb pp] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which was a very good thing and what children of today miss when they 're being whisked on a bus to school . |
| 2 | It 's dead in n it Jimmy we 're being recorded on a linguistics tape . |
| 3 | Up to 50 drugs are being tested on the cancer cells from the blood of leukaemia patients in Bath . |
| 4 | They are so like the television it 's sometimes hard to see why they are being done on a stage . |
| 5 | This 3-man team has been in post for three years and results are being seen on the ground . |
| 6 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
| 7 | Hoover washing machines are being made on the site of the old steel works at Merthyr Tydfil . |
| 8 | Fact sheets are being prepared on the basis of new information available on company structure and ownership , patterns of unemployment , changing structure of employment , training facilities . |
| 9 | Meanwhile in Britain , many Iraqi people — most of whom have long fought against Saddam Hussein 's government — are being deported on the basis of being a ‘ threat to national security ’ . |
| 10 | Detailed interviews are being conducted on a sample drawn from court records of divorced people representing men , women , pursuers , defenders , receivers and payers of maintenance . |
| 11 | Policy changes are being pressed on the basis of myths . |
| 12 | His comments come as up to eight million parents across England and Wales are being balloted on the topic of National Curriculum tests . |
| 13 | This means that like pension fund trustees , charity fund managers are being selected on the basis of beauty parades , although this is not ‘ quite as standardised as in the pensions fund area . |
| 14 | What I want to dispute , Mr Chairman , is the the type and the nature of dwellings which are being developed on the site . |
| 15 | A small group ( two bulls and six heifers ) was exported to an English agricultural college in 1988 on an experimental basis , and here it was described as looking rather like a South Devon or a beefy Jersey ; the bulls are being used on the college 's Friesian dairy herd to produce beef calves . |
| 16 | Immense sums are being spent on the storage of nuclear waste . |
| 17 | Millions are being spent on the refurbishment of Paisley Town Hall . |
| 18 | The Company Command Post is already a hive of activity as the daily reports are being collated on a computer , ready for transmission to Battalion Headquarters . |
| 19 | Sluices are being repaired on the drainage ditches to raise water levels and create wetland … a valuable and increasingly rare habitat for plants and animals . |
| 20 | YORK : Police officers are being caught on the hop by an explosion of Easter bunnies . |
| 21 | For the first time limits are being set on the number of hours which may be worked continuously . |
| 22 | As you will have probably read from your QT notes , we need to have accurate information available in the office , ready to publicise classes for the start of the new season , and this year they are being put on the Word Processor so that in future only alterations need be notified . |
| 23 | They are being paid on the basis of the results shown by the Accounts and they should bear the risk if those Accounts are wrong . |
| 24 | A traditional interior does not have to be incompatible with accommodating whole families , nor with providing meals ; yet an increasing number of old pub interiors are being sacrificed on the altar of the identikit eating house — whether the brewer 's concept be a downmarket steakhouse or part of a family restaurant chain masquerading as an independent local concern . |
| 25 | Some of the wounded were being placed on the grass in front of the Chateau . |
| 26 | The less fortunate were the severely wounded who were being placed on the grass with two medics to attend to their wounds . |
| 27 | However , if the inhibitor was injected at such a time that RNA synthesis was inhibited while the animals were being trained on the maze , then they failed to remember it when tested on it later . |
| 28 | According to the Inland Revenue , 500,000 people were being taxed on the benefit of having a company car in the 1978–79 tax year . |
| 29 | [ See pp. 38161 ; 38304-05 ; for 1991 First Compensation Law on expropriated property ; the amount of compensation under both laws would be calculated as if the total claim were being made on the basis of one law . ] |
| 30 | At the bottom end , the masses were being fed on a diet of bingo , moronic competitions and ‘ news ’ reduced to a jumble of tits and bums , Tory propaganda and invented Royal Family rubbish . |