Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Within minutes money was changing hands and the baby antelope was being placed on blankets on the back seat of the car . |
| 2 | Finniston is convinced that too much emphasis is being placed on earnings from so-called ‘ invisible ’ exports . |
| 3 | And the vixen of the newsroom is being joined on stage by the villain of Albert Square . |
| 4 | From today more Central South bulletins are being subtitled on Teletext for the deaf and hard-of-hearing . |
| 5 | The findings of the research , which were being undertaken on behalf of the HCIMA by the University of Surrey , would be used to extend the Association 's existing Corpus of Knowledge research , providing information on the functions hospitality industry managers perform at different levels and in different situations , to raise the profile of the 23000-strong professional body within the European forum . |
| 6 | Imagine the following : John Major ( the England manager ) is being interviewed on TV after his team 's 14–0 thrashing by Upper Volta under 14's . |
| 7 | The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps . |
| 8 | Each Autumn consignments arrive in the winefield by rail in sealed tanks , transport during the summer being forbidden on account of the stink . |
| 9 | This is in marked contrast to the trend with many other insurers where fixed covers are being imposed on customers in relation to both the type of insurance and the sums to be insured . |
| 10 | The possibility of US trade sanctions being imposed on Norway for defying the international ban on commercial whaling have receded , after President Clinton stated that a delay would allow further time for negotiation . |
| 11 | I have also seen the excellent work being done on prevention in schools and with young people to get across the message , which must be repeated year after year as children come into the consuming group , about the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 12 | Work is currently being done on models of language support ( FEU Project No . ) . |
| 13 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |
| 14 | Marx 's reaction to this was as much an attempt to counter the claim being made on behalf of the Prussian bureaucracy in the 1840s that it offered an alternative to constitutionalism , as it was a theoretical objection to Hegel 's interpretation of the state ( Liebich 1982 ) . |
| 15 | He or she should respond to the er , the points that are being made on behalf of the C E C. |
| 16 | Further evidence of the Metropolitan 's heightened attention to textiles is the imminent completion of a well-illustrated catalogue of the medieval tapestries , being written on contract by Adolfo Cavallo , former curator of textiles at the Metropolitan and the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . |
| 17 | To embark for the islands they will need Namibian permission to pass through a restricted coastal diamond area , risking being shot on sight for straying from the road ! |
| 18 | A TEENAGE rapist who committed a catalogue of sex and dishonesty offences after being freed on bail by magistrates was jailed for 11 years by two different Old Bailey judges yesterday . |
| 19 | Terry Maher , chairman and chief executive of Pentos , said : ‘ There is a very real threat of VAT being levied on books in the next budget . |
| 20 | Uttlesford District Council is being visited on Friday by 38 parliamentary delegates from throughout the commonwealth . |
| 21 | It is now being seen on ponds in the United States where fish are accustomed to being fed . |
| 22 | Alternatively , a bonus of one share for every 15 held after three years is being offered on allocations of up to 1,500 shares . |
| 23 | The bread is being offered on behalf of the whole community so it should be held up that all may see . |
| 24 | Perrier 's comeback campaign is already being shown on television in France , and appearing in the press and on radio in America . |
| 25 | ANEW spatial database developed by BP Exploration 's Data Integration group is now being used on projects in Colombia , Vietnam , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan and Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | The rabbit antibody to class II major histocompatibility complex was used at a dilution of 1:100 , while the sheep anti interferon-gamma antiserum was absorbed twice with a 1:1 mixture of porcine and guinea pig liver powders ( Sigma , Dorset , UK ) before being used on sections at a dilution of 1:100 . |
| 27 | Fender Bass VI The first Bass VI I remember seeing was being used on television by Jack Bruce , during a mimed performance of Strange Brewby Cream . |
| 28 | It differs from systems such as HARPY in that the search space is fully 3-dimensional , graphs of words and phrases being produced on top of a graph of phoneme hypotheses . |
| 29 | Cameras were already being mounted on cars for action scenes and cameras were mounted on cars again in the 1960s onwards , sometimes even for dialogue scenes ( they could be rerecorded later , if necessary ) . |
| 30 | The cut-off rules which determine which records will be retrieved , and what weight a record has to achieve for it to be counted as a possible match , are fairly complex and purely pragmatic , being based on experience from repetition of real searches . |