Example sentences of "of be [vb pp] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of eight houses offered for sale at Sanquhar Den in Forres , near Inverness , were snapped up within days of being placed on the market . |
| 2 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 3 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 4 | Giant vistas of haunting guitar strum looms out of the speakers and the feeling of being lost on the moon is hard to shrug off . |
| 5 | Similarly , Gnosticism was opposed to orthodox Christianity by its hostility to history , for instead of being based on the idea that God prepares for the future by way of the past it regarded the world as one from which God was absent . |
| 6 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |
| 7 | Even if , as a servant of the Gorengs , I could likely avoid punishment , there was a real risk of being shot on the spot by some itchy-fingered malai . |
| 8 | They would have had to know where Alex 's gun was in the Green Room , they would have had to run the risk of being observed on the O.P. side of the stage when they committed the murder … |
| 9 | After a period of being grounded on the Shag Rocks , it has now confounded weather experts by drifting west , directly towards the Falklands . |
| 10 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 11 | They hurried across the plateau , afraid of being caught on the forest path after dark , glad that the wind was behind them , billowing out their skirts and propelling them forward on legs that ran involuntarily . |
| 12 | Lots of girls married in haste and repented at leisure then because they were afraid of being left on the shelf . |
| 13 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 14 | About a month later the buyer had the clutch repaired at a cost of £45 and claimed this sum from the seller , alleging that the car was not of merchantable quality and not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |
| 15 | It was held that the fact the engine seized up after only three weeks was evidence that at the time of the sale the car was not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |