Example sentences of "on [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a follow-up , three workshops on bookselling are being held in Asia from April/July this year to early 1992 . |
| 2 | This implies that , like normal observers , C.C. saw the green shapes as the perceptual figures whether they appeared on the right or the left , implying that figure-ground segregation operated normally across the display ( his phenomenal descriptions of ‘ green shapes at either side ’ on debriefing are also consistent with this ) . |
| 3 | Medical opinion is another influential source of dominant social attitudes , and its views on ageing are central to the expectations we have about the ‘ normal ’ condition of older people . |
| 4 | The importance of a ‘ lifetime perspective ’ on ageing is being increasingly recognized . |
| 5 | The Centre for Policy on Ageing is primarily a research organization funding inquiries into the needs of old people . |
| 6 | On the one hand the ‘ official ’ crime that correctionalists were bent on correcting was either authentic working-class rebellion or an irrelevance blown up out of all proportion by the agents of capitalism for their own malevolent purposes . |
| 7 | The one she insisted on inspecting was at the back . |
| 8 | The pattern that emerges from these results on trampling is one of breakage of skulls , jaws and postcrania leading to complete absence of skulls , reduction in numbers of maxillae , considerable loss of teeth from the jaws leading to large numbers of isolated teeth , considerable breakage of larger postcranial elements and some degree of loss , but no loss or breakage of smaller elements . |
| 9 | Its thoughts on squatting were published in a paper earlier this year : it was in favour of making squatting a criminal offence . |
| 10 | Others were given warm water for soup , and on complaining were harshly told to work harder . |
| 11 | While no-one likes to see anyone lose his job the Glentoran Board are to be congratulated on having been decisive at such a vital time for the club . |
| 12 | In January 1990 the paper 's director , editor and two other journalists had received prison sentences of up to one year on having been found guilty of spreading " false information " . |
| 13 | His first act on entering was to test the security . |
| 14 | The only notable effect of frost on ferreting is on the digging , and then only if the frost is prolonged and severe . |
| 15 | The characteristic features of an international monetary system based on floating are as follows : . |
| 16 | F rom then on visiting was rationed . |