Example sentences of "being [vb pp] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This large , three-engined , beast is being placed on a 21 year loan to the Dutch Military Aviation Museum at Kamp Zeist , near Soesterberg , where it will be displayed in Dutch Far East markings . |
| 2 | It refers to the duty being placed on the new committee , ( a ) to monitor the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland ; and , ( b ) to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State regarding the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland . " |
| 3 | Extend the back leg and slide it backwards , the free hand being placed on the upper thigh of the extended leg . |
| 4 | Emphasis is being placed on the cognitive basis of social identity in contrast to the more familiar emphasis on evaluations . |
| 5 | And one of the prime factors most often pointed to as a cause has been the rise of the new media of communication and entertainment , particular emphasis being placed on the deleterious effects of television . |
| 6 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 7 | Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas . |
| 8 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 9 | Where an order for possession is made under Ord 24 ( " summary procedure " for recovery of land occupied without licence or consent ) , r 5(4) says that there is nothing which prevents the order for possession being given on a specific date as if the proceedings had been brought by action ( r 5(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 10 | The exchange was contingent upon planning permission for building being given on the vacated site . |
| 11 | An example would be where the firm is carrying out one exercise , which then prompts the idea of another exercise as an integral part of the first service ( eg a review of a person 's CGT position leads to advice being given on an appropriate pension policy ) . |
| 12 | His own notes on the plans for Shotesham indicate his great attention to detail : ‘ Particular care must be taken in finishing the floor of the Nursery etc to prevent any Noise being heard on the Principal Floor . ’ |
| 13 | Under SSAP 24 and UITF 6 these long-term obligations are accounted for on a full provision basis , even though in many cases it is likely that they will continually roll over , and it has been argued that it is difficult to justify a prohibition , as SSAP 15 would otherwise require , on the related deferred tax being treated on a similar basis if it , too , continually rolls over . |
| 14 | Under SSAP 24 and UITF 6 these long-term obligations are accounted for on a full provision basis , even though in many cases it is likely that they will continually roll over ( ie as one obligation is settled another will arise ) and it has been argued that it is difficult to justify a prohibition , as SSAP 15 would otherwise require , on the related deferred tax being treated on a similar basis if it , too , continually rolls over . |
| 15 | The chances of being treated preferentially or even of being treated on a left-alone basis also depend critically on the level and pace of change of the technology involved and on the degree of concentration and competition in the sector ( Mytelka , 1979 ; Milner , 1988 ; Grosse , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | The instructions given to the Dutch negotiators at the Munster peace congress which began its work in 1645 insisted on their being treated on the same footing as those of Venice ; and by the end of the century Dutch ambassadors in Paris were claiming royal honours . |
| 17 | The most obvious structural interpretation of this morphology is that of a graben with the rift floor being formed on a downthrown block bounded by normal faults which create the steep escarpments ( Fig. 4.9(A) ) . |
| 18 | There 's clearly , there 's clearly a no turning back group being formed on the Tory back benches with those Councillors who feel aggrieved after the night of the long knives . |
| 19 | Smaller firms in the UK are more vulnerable to takeovers because of the existence of a sophisticated Stock Exchange which encourages small companies to raise finance by being floated on the unlisted markets . |
| 20 | The aim of the audit is to select one contractor every two weeks and to check such things as the implementation of health and safety plans , to ensure that all documentation is in order and that safety training programmes are being undertaken on an ongoing basis . |
| 21 | The research is being undertaken on an inter-disciplinary basis and the two principal investigators are an economist and a social policy specialist . |
| 22 | Work is being undertaken on the feeding behaviour of ungulates and how feed quality affects optimum body size , a topic of both ecological and agricultural importance . |
| 23 | The procedures for validating centrally developed courses and units , and also those for courses developed by consortia are being developed on a similar basis . |
| 24 | On the other hand , psychotropic drugs such as minor tranquillizers and antidepressants are now being prescribed on a large scale by general practitioners ( Skegg et al. 1977 ) , and this probably contributed to some extent to the increase in overdoses of these substances . |
| 25 | Being situated on the opposite side of the Fleet , it was approached from the College buildings by a strongly-built Rustic-bridge which spanned the river just in front of the Forge at the north end of the Ride … |
| 26 | The financial wizard talks about ‘ margins being squeezed on a contracting market ; controlled inputs stabilizing capital have reached the ceiling ’ , and he assures us that ‘ The Treasury mandarins would put Britain into a straitjacket , paying the price for decades before the recession bottoms out . ’ |
| 27 | NEW LIGHT is being shed on the molecular mechanics behind photosynthesis — the process by which plants turn sunlight into chemical energy . |
| 28 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 29 | Material produced on a word processor is clear , but can be made even more so by being photocopied on a high-contrast setting . |
| 30 | ‘ There has been some rain recently and each train is being considered on a separate basis . ’ |