Example sentences of "[be] be place on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While the bodies are lying in the open , blocks of ice are being placed on them . ’ |
| 2 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 3 | Some of the wounded were being placed on the grass in front of the Chateau . |
| 4 | The less fortunate were the severely wounded who were being placed on the grass with two medics to attend to their wounds . |
| 5 | The figure of over 40 per cent seems too high to be merely chance and he suggested that burials were being placed on boundaries , and that hence , because the dates of the burials were known from the types of grave goods , the boundaries must be of sixth- or seventh-century date at the latest . |
| 6 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
| 7 | But it 's a fact that the vast majority of chairmen do n't even talk to their managers about the workload that 's being placed on players . |
| 8 | Finniston is convinced that too much emphasis is being placed on earnings from so-called ‘ invisible ’ exports . |
| 9 | The programmes of regional type are research-oriented ; an increasing emphasis is being placed on environmental protection . |
| 10 | Increasing emphasis is being placed on the role that remote sensing can play in temperate climates such as Britain , where commonly the soils are glacially transported and where natural vegetation patterns have been extensively modified . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Claims by McEwan that undue weight is being placed on the episode strike one as disingenuous . |
| 13 | It could be objected that too much onus is being placed on the contribution of the adult . |
| 14 | Rather it is an additional line of argument in cases where reliance is being placed on the fact that the decision is unreasonable or that irrelevant considerations have been taken into account . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | More emphasis is being placed on Ratner 's position as a gold jewellery specialist and Ernest Jones is being pushed for diamonds . |
| 17 | Is my right hon. Friend aware of the immense burden that is being placed on education authorities in the current year because of the increase in the numbers entitled to free school meals ? |
| 18 | Emphasis is being placed on the cognitive basis of social identity in contrast to the more familiar emphasis on evaluations . |
| 19 | Increased emphasis is being placed on obtaining the views of patients themselves . |
| 20 | Increasingly emphasis is being placed on co-operative work and sharing of text files . |
| 21 | A body wrapped in an Army blanket was being placed on one of the stretchers and a Commando with a bad face wound was being helped into the seat next to the driver . |
| 22 | It is not as if the blame was being placed on Labour counties , for in only one case where a Conservative or hung district had a poll tax of over £400 ( Derby ) did Labour control the county . |
| 23 | In particular , it was held that the law will imply a duty of care when a party seeking information from a party possessed of a special skill trusts that party to exercise due care , and that party knew or ought to have known that reliance was being placed on their skill and judgment . |
| 24 | Within minutes money was changing hands and the baby antelope was being placed on blankets on the back seat of the car . |
| 25 | By the last decades of the seventeenth century a much heavier emphasis than ever before was being placed on the need for honesty , for the diplomat to behave in a way which inspired confidence in those with whom he dealt . |