Example sentences of "[noun] being [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of a fringing reef and a barrier reef on an island would seem to be best explained by glacial control , the barrier reef being formed with the Post-glacial rise of sea level and the fringing reef by the more stable modern sea level . |
| 2 | There is a problem here with the eyes , with the musician being chained to the printed page in front of him . |
| 3 | The prospect of a civilisation being overturned by an allowed evil getting control is a real fear for Spenser . |
| 4 | But the Total Recall video is showing Schwarzenegger being squitted by the stamping press . |
| 5 | If the Policyholder can show that the permanent address of the son or daughter is the policyholder 's address , then subject to the loss/damage being caused by an insured peril , it is in order for the claim to be dealt with , being property temporarily away from the home . |
| 6 | A STUDY being undertaken by the Welsh Office , Dyfed County Council and Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion into trunk roads in the Aberystwyth area will be the subject of a public exhibition at Aberystwyth for three days from July 8 . |
| 7 | I handed back the receiver and heard Ronnie being agitated on the other end . |
| 8 | Suddenly she heard the familiar sound of the key being turned in the front door Alison came in . |
| 9 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 10 | Their affair could be described either as ‘ passionately discreet ’ or as ‘ discreetly passionate ’ , the relative anonymity of Wenlock Manor being preferred to the sodium-lit splendour of the Grand Hotel . |
| 11 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 12 | Some people may remember those words being splashed across the front page of the Sun on the eve of last April 's general election . |
| 13 | They also suspected him of fomenting violence to prevent Inkatha being marginalized as a political force . |
| 14 | A mass demonstration being organised by the Scottish TUC will go ahead on Saturday , as planned . |
| 15 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
| 16 | West Germany was to be the poor relation , with all its military units being placed under the integrated command structure . |
| 17 | Plant down , with natural blood as an adhesive , is often used to form the design ; or ochre ( blood of the earth ) which has always been intimately associated with ceremonies of fertility , the invocation of rain , etc. , by tribal people in most countries , who , like the Aborigines , regard the earth as a living , breathing entity , its underground watercourses being seen in a similar light to the human arterial system . |
| 18 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 19 | Most would like to see the auditor 's period away from the audit in question extended from the proposed two years ( which , as Touche Ross says , ‘ could lead to this guidance being perceived as a cosmetic exercise' ) , but can not agree over how long . |
| 20 | I have seen some battles , heard of many , but never of the first news of a defeat being brought by the General Officers before ! ’ |
| 21 | Leonard 's circumcision took place , in accordance with Jewish law , on the morning of the eighth day after his birth ; several prayers of blessings being recited before the actual ceremony , at which Nathan his father offered the solemn prayer : |
| 22 | Inset : An air diver being deployed in a diving basket . |
| 23 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 24 | The alert from police came after the latest smash and grab raid on a car being driven by a lone woman in Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 26 | There is another kind of experiment being performed at the electron-positron storage rings at DESY , the German particle-physics laboratory in Hamburg . |
| 27 | To delineate the dimensions of the problems of effectively integrating system development teams within the software production process and to examine the solutions being sought by the commercial software company which is providing research access . |
| 28 | I 'm built for action , and it seemed a raw deal being dumped in a desolate corner of London with the kind of instructions you 'd give an old man on retirement . |
| 29 | These allied to an apprehension of the uselessness of qualifications anyway — blackness being seen as the immovable obstacle to career progress — produce a situation in which black kids are receptive to alternatives , to different life plans . |
| 30 | Pakistan manager Khalid Mahmood 's suggestion of ‘ home ’ umpires being selected by the visiting team may have some merit , but only as long as the visitors have sufficient knowledge of all those on the umpires ' panel — ED . |