Example sentences of "[noun] [being] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 2 | The raindrops against the window sounded like a handful of gravel being hurled at the glass by the strong wind . |
| 3 | This alarming statistic led Qamar Ali Mirza , president of the Pakistan Mountaineering Association , to make a moving plea at a conference of Greater Ranges nations being held at the time in Kathmandu : ‘ Please give a respite to these big mountains . |
| 4 | Assistant county trading standards officer Ed Chicken yesterday told Bedale magistrates that animal health inspectors spotted Taylor 's animals being weighed at the mart . |
| 5 | Assistant county trading standards officer Ed Chicken yesterday told Bedale magistrates that animal health inspectors spotted Taylor 's animals being weighed at the mart . |
| 6 | Many players automatically roll the wrists at the start of the backswing , with the club being laid at the top as a result . |
| 7 | This relatively low figure no doubt results from the programme being broadcast at a time that is inconvenient to many viewers . |
| 8 | Care was taken to make building surveying curricula more apposite to the work of the candidate , the technological aspects being increased at the expense of law and economics . |
| 9 | Note that the butt joint is not cut vertical since this would result in only one piece being cut at an angle , this preventing a proper match . |
| 10 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 11 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 12 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 13 | Why are the C E C fearful of matters being discussed at the Apex conference ? |
| 14 | Their new range being launched at the show , ‘ Super Waverley Velvet ’ was joint winner of Category 2 ‘ Plain carpets in heavyweight quality ’ . |
| 15 | Generally speaking , however , in normal flight the wing ( or coupled wings ) moves in a path such that a point on its surface describes an irregular loop or an elongate figure-of-eight with respect to the wing-base , the long axis of the plane of vibration being inclined at an angle to the long axis of the insect ( Fig. 38 ) while the angle at which the surface of the wing is held changes throughout the cycle . |
| 16 | Le Bugue is a place you 've probably never heard of before now : it 's in France , and they 're having a 16ft wide 6ft tall ramp along with a 12ft wide 4ft tall mini being constructed at a Summer Camp , along with some street ramps and handrails . |
| 17 | We will not accept UK farmers being put at a disadvantage by EC laws being applied differently in other countries . |
| 18 | Inefficiency of this sort , which involves a given level of output being produced at a cost which is higher than the theoretical minimum , is termed X-inefficiency . |
| 19 | The zone control valve was mounted on a horizontal range pipe so that the drop pipe from it passed vertically through three levels , an open-sprinkler being mounted at the head of each level . |
| 20 | The respondent , without authority , keyed commands into a computer and thereby obtained by means of the same computer a discount , to which he was not entitled , on goods being purchased at a supplier . |
| 21 | discount on goods being purchased at a supplier , by dishonestly operating a computer used by the sales staff and entering a false discount . |
| 22 | Beinn Alligin is the third of the great Torridon giants and more amenable than its fellows , and more honest , the whole effort of climbing to the summit ridge , traversing it and descending at the far end to return down the corrie being assessed at a glance , although probably under-estimated . |
| 23 | The deal with Sainsbury will result in Cashline terminals being installed at the company 's supermarkets in Bridgend ( Mid Glamorgan ) and Totton ( Hampshire ) . |
| 24 | The shifts of responsibility are sufficient to justify the claim that the education service being managed at the end of the twentieth century is different from that which was characterized by teacher-based choice , classroom autonomy , voluntary consensus and a supposedly new liberalism forty years earlier . |
| 25 | The arrangements for the service were made by the Rotary Club of Arcadia , the service being held at the graveside of the British Plot in Oak Ridge Cemetery . |
| 26 | Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading |
| 27 | Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading |
| 28 | The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] … |
| 29 | DELEGATES at this year 's CIU Annual Conference at Blackpool will have a chance to visit the first Beer and Trades Exhibition being staged at the Sandcastle Exhibition Centre on the South Promenade . |
| 30 | Regular exhibitions of members ' work are organised by the society , the annual exhibition being held at the City Art Gallery . |