Example sentences of "being [vb pp] on by the [noun] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The work will not mean any new workers being taken on by the developer of the Tees Offshore Base , housed in the former Smiths Dock . |
| 7 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |
| 8 | Correcting the August report , the Yak C-11s recently removed to the USSR from the UK and the USA are not being worked on by the Yak OKB . |