Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction . |
| 2 | McVicar who was involved in riots and rooftop protests at Durham and Chelmsford Jails says the army should have stormed the prison to save sex offenders being picked on by rioters . |
| 3 | Although my toys are an important collection , I am wary of them being looked on as investments or high-price commodities like works of art . |
| 4 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 5 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 6 | The clearest testimony to the level of exchange being carried on between England and the Continent , especially in transactions involving gold , is the existence of sets of balances accompanied by weights . |
| 7 | In the Midlands , even in the large industrial towns , we find markets still being carried on with stalls pitched in a large open space , covering perhaps a couple of acres , exactly in the medieval fashion . |
| 8 | Alternatively , s.22(1) of the Alkali , etc. , Works Act 1906 provides for formal complaint to be made to HM Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate via their inspectors , by any local authority or inhabitant of the district , if a process to which the Act applies is being carried on in contravention of the provisions of the Act and a nuisance has arisen . |
| 9 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |
| 10 | There was interest in the film being transferred on to video and the John S. Cohen Foundation had agreed to meet the initial costs . |
| 11 | The airlift had now stopped and people were being moved on to Myitkyina , hoping to get a plane there . |
| 12 | A MAN who staggered from a wrecked block of flats in blazing clothes was being operated on in hospital last night . |
| 13 | The diagram is therefore drawn on the computer screen with the aid of a mouse instead of being drawn on to paper or a plastic sheet . |
| 14 | Immediately after take-off we passed San Sebastián on the north side of the coastline , making sure that another G-registered aeroplane heading in the opposite direction was south of it before being handed on to Bilbao . |
| 15 | A separate scanner program , called SCAN.EXE , is available which allows individual modules to be scanned at any time without the user being logged on to LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | This is because the state is expanding as the unit of international society , and is being called on to take responsibility for the welfare of its citizens in a wider range of areas . |
| 17 | The Government is being called on to draft in extra staff at a top security jail where violence against prison officers is escalating . |
| 18 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 19 | As a result he became the most knowledgeable and influential European in that part of Africa and was continually being called on by traders , missionaries , and humanitarians for advice or to sort out local disputes . |
| 20 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 21 | A WINDSURFER was rescued off the Essex coast yesterday as he was in danger of being driven on to rocks . |
| 22 | And Richards needed treatment to his back after being stamped on by Paul Ashmead before the Gloucester flanker was sent off at Leicester . |
| 23 | Empowerment enthusiasts are being spurred on by stories of remarkable productivity gains . |
| 24 | One hundred and fifty temporary workers are being taken on at Europe 's biggest ice cream factory Birds Eye Walls in Gloucester to cope with increased demand . |
| 25 | These trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year . |
| 26 | ‘ You see all these Italian and French drivers being taken on in Formula One because their country 's industries back them . |
| 27 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |
| 28 | Much of this was pocketed by retailers instead of being passed on to customers . |
| 29 | This is being passed on to customers at no extra cost . |
| 30 | erm Obviously , as it 's being passed on to groups , we ca n't make any decision at the moment on whether we think it 's a good thing or not , we do n't get the opportunity to endorse it all , like today . |