Example sentences of "on [noun] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families living on income support are being forced to cut back on food and do without basic items , according to a survey by the Children 's Society . |
| 2 | Households with less privately-owned land which had to rely on the ‘ public economy ’ ( the forest ) for livestock rearing rather than private land , were less willing to see restrictions placed upon access to forests or to others ' private land for stubble grazing in cases where fodder tree planting on terrace backs was being advocated . |
| 3 | Clacton on Friday evening is being treated as arson . |
| 4 | A small international centre for educational evaluation at Ibadan has been set up ( and will be described further in my next chapter ) and another on child development is being planned in Nairobi . |
| 5 | The convention on climate change is being blocked by the US on the grounds that global warming remains unproven . |
| 6 | Mrs Geoghegan-Quinn said the shooting incident on Lake Derravarragh was being investigated . |
| 7 | A new meals on wheels scheme is being tested which could cut the cost of providing hot school dinners . |
| 8 | In January 1941 , the local newspaper carried a description of the fires of London reflected in the southern sky , and in the same issue of the Bedfordshire Times it was reported that a member of the Area Guardians Committee had stated that a number of men employed as labourers on government works were being lodged at the Public Assistance Institution as casuals . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know , ha ha have n't you got a position where er as , as we began to , to see last week , there is this radicalization coming in but the , the er i i it 's the peasants who 've moved to the left of the Party , you 're right , that they are inappropriate to this very moderate policy of rent reduction erm a tax on collaborators land is being redistributed and is n't saying right we , i i in the same way that , that Mao was identifying the problem in in , either you , you follow the masses or you , you lead them but , but thereof we are behind them and a sense the Party has got ta recognize that , it 's got ta catch up with the masses and is n't that first paragraph saying look this is the way you should be going , that there are peasants who are redistributing the land and land reform is in effect taking place and that 's what we want to see ? |
| 10 | A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries . |
| 11 | A novel means of modelling science based on co-citation clustering is being appraised : |
| 12 | In experiments where the effect of Oct-1 on gene expression was being assessed , 10 µg of the reporter plasmid was co-transfected with the indicated amounts of the Oct-1 expression vector with the amount of transfected DNA in each sample being equalized with the parental plasmid . |