Example sentences of "being [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 2 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 3 | Now new presssure is being brought on the government . |
| 4 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 5 | The second reading of the Finance Bill follows and from 1969 the bill has then been divided , clauses and schedules which involve issues of principle being taken on the floor of the House while the more detailed clauses are sent upstairs to a standing committee . |
| 6 | Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 7 | At Lough Carra , most of the fish are being taken on the dap , but wetfly was also producing some sport for Jim Stafford , who landed a nice brace at 4lb 8ozs . |
| 8 | Karen Anderson ( LibDem ) is 20/1 and no bets are being taken on the Green candidate Steven Kenwright . |