Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | EastEnders , regarded by senior BBC managers as having lost its way with sordid story lines , is being given a new producer . |
| 2 | Alan Curtis , the former Welsh international striker , yesterday signed for Swansea after being given a free transfer by Cardiff . |
| 3 | Ferrari spokesman Franco Liistro said : ‘ It 's the same vice again of the defendant not being given a hearing . |
| 4 | Right at the outset we are alerted to the tact that Mary Frith , the real-life cross-dresser on whom the play is based , is being given a more virtuous image than she in fact possessed ( dedication , ll. 19 ff. ; prologue , ll. 26 — 7 ) . |
| 5 | The concern for the people for whom you are responsible by being given a position of influence and power and authority has gone . |
| 6 | JUST when they thought the good times were coming to an end , Japanese building firms are being given a batch of orders for huge infrastructure projects . |
| 7 | Dog-eared it may be , but the idea is being given a new lease of life by the rapprochement between the Soviet Union and South Korea , the thaw in relations between Japan and North Korea , and now a likely peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | VHAF , as it is known in the trade , is being given a rigorous fitness test by the Football League Playing Surfaces Committee . |
| 9 | Company car drivers used to beg off being given a diesel by protesting that it was just too sluggish for business use . |
| 10 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 11 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |
| 12 | So for all these journalists to cry foul because they 're not being given a plane and they 're not being allowed to fly in — I think that 's just a bunch of bullshit . |
| 13 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 14 | Not everyone 's so lucky , being given a horse . |
| 15 | One is being given a chance to show what one can do and this realization often releases amazing reserves of energy , enthusiasm and creative flair . |
| 16 | THE Redgrave Theatre , Farnham , is being given a grant of £17,000 for 1992–93 by Hampshire County Council . |
| 17 | If your inadequacy is so serious that , to use one phrase from the case law , there is an ‘ irredeemable incapability ’ , so that being given a warning and an opportunity to mend your ways would simply be a waste of time and might put the business at risk , it may be just to dismiss you as soon as the full extent of your failings comes to light . |
| 18 | You have no legal right to insist upon being given a reference ; the relevant legal principles are discussed in Chapter 21 . |
| 19 | No employee can insist upon being given a reference when he leaves a job , unless ( as hardly ever happens ) his contract specifically entitles him to one . |
| 20 | These interviews followed a semi-structured format , each person being given a set of preinterview notes posing questions about roles , responsibilities , information needs , and their usage of the existing filing systems . |
| 21 | The ‘ body part ’ reading therefore escapes being given a penalty point , and is accepted as being referentially more successful ( see Carter 1987a for a fuller discussion ) . |
| 22 | To bolster his case for being given a second term — and to outflank the opposition Labor Party — prime minister Malcolm Fraser has announced new research initiatives in biotechnology , satellite research , industrial R&D and in the Antarctic . |
| 23 | While deaf education was being given a severe blow first by the Milan Congress and then by the Royal Commission , life for adult deaf people continued to improve with the establishment of recreational and spiritual services in Reading ( 1880 ) ; St. Barnabas , London ( 1882 ) ; Bristol Dumfries and Jersey ( all 1884 ) ; Warrington ( 1885 ) ; Chester ( 1889 ) and many others . |
| 24 | The analogue recording is clean , smooth , and well-balanced , but benefits from being given a little extra playback volume to help bring the instruments into focus ; fortunately tape hiss levels are as low as you 'd expect on a good digital recording . |
| 25 | Usually they are a group from an outdoor centre who are being given a taste of what canoeing can offer them and they have yet to appreciate the finer points of our sport or recreation . |
| 26 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 27 | One old man remembered that a visit as a child to the doctor did not result in being given a prescription . |
| 28 | It is important to make a definite decision about this right from the start , without letting her feel in any way that she is being given a weekly or monthly ‘ ration ’ of her family 's free time , as a duty rather than a pleasure . |
| 29 | Slowly parts of Funchal are being given a facelift , partly with tourists in mind and partly just because many of the old buildings are in danger of crumbling away . |
| 30 | The government first designated six areas to be turned into HATs , without the tenants being given a say . |