Example sentences of "[noun] being [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the earliest was the study by Gagné and Baker ( 1950 ) with which I began this chapter ( fig. 5.1 ) , this study being designed to show that training in applying a different verbal label to each of the various stimulus lights would produce differentiation among them that would transfer to a subsequent motor task . |
| 2 | LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks . |
| 3 | In so doing , the chance of strong ( or weak ) overlaps are increased , since the probability of two semantically related words being defined using common terms is now proportionately increased . |
| 4 | If the contents of the statement are not contested therefore it may be put in as evidence without the witness being called to give oral testimony . |
| 5 | Nevertheless France possessed a technocratic system of sectorization across the whole country with departments and communes being mandated to provide local outpatient and prevention services . |
| 6 | This is because both recognition of the trigram and comprehension of the passage being shadowed involve linguistic ability which is specialised in the left hemisphere . |
| 7 | ‘ But perhaps you are not real , like everything else in Seville at the moment , a fantasy being created to send sane men out of their minds . ’ |
| 8 | It contains practical hints on walking the route , a list of key addresses for information points and explains the work being done to restore eroded stretches along the trail . |
| 9 | Expect to see lots of rollers being used to create this year 's styles . |
| 10 | The first tax considered is a proportional tax on lifetime income at rate t , with the proceeds being used to finance current government spending . |
| 11 | Production of the magazine has become part of the students ' training , with proceeds being used to provide additional resources for the courses involved . |
| 12 | The need to work is often financial , two incomes being required to maintain heavy mortgages and what Ivan Illich , a critic of the Establishment has called , ‘ the modern addiction to paralysing affluence ’ . |
| 13 | In what way are our vast oil revenues being used to create new industries or jobs , and what happens when they run out ? |
| 14 | about pho photographic studio , but certainly lights and a background erm of some nature being used to produce this photograph . |
| 15 | I should have thought that , in the new found spirit of glasnost in the Tory Government , with public officials being required to give direct answers , the Prime Minister would hasten to give me a reply . |
| 16 | But will starvation not bring surrender without the King being asked to make such concessions ? |
| 17 | What this early artist has illustrated is mobbing behaviour being exploited to trap small birds , which would have been destined to be served up at table . |
| 18 | ‘ The average yearly fuel bill here is already £200 a year more than in Great Britain , and these rises will lead to ‘ voluntary ’ disconnections , with people being forced to use less coal and electricity . ’ |
| 19 | North West Playwrights ' Workshops 1993 in Manchester will feature both works with Terry 's Shadow of My Father being chosen to open this year 's event as the Press Night production on the evening of June 30 . |
| 20 | The large numbers of wild orchids being traded threatens some species with extinction . |
| 21 | These are the worries of the modern world , and a Church being seen to tackle these problems head-on would be a much better image-builder than 10 TV ads trying to entice people into church on Sundays . |
| 22 | The Eighties ended with Mrs Thatcher being forced to concede increased pensions of £40 a week for widows of servicemen killed in the second world war . |
| 23 | Furthermore , on -0 April , it seemed that the American support Alexander was counting on would not be forthcoming , as President Truman cabled Churchill : I wish to avoid having American forces being used to fight Yugoslav forces or being used in combat in the Balkan arena On 1 May Alexander returned to his original objective of seizing Trieste and the lines of communication , and on 2 May the New Zealand Division under 13 Corps arrived in Trieste almost simultaneously with Tito 's troops . |
| 24 | The air filled with the strong scent of herbs being burned to discourage elemental spirits . |
| 25 | It constitutes an assembly of different relationships and powers , the product of traditional institutions being adapted to meet changing circumstances . |
| 26 | These relationships and powers are the product of traditional institutions being adapted to meet changing circumstances and are prescribed by a variety of measures of statute and common law and by convention . |
| 27 | ‘ With reference to my reply to Mr. Hollis ’ letter in the November issue , the artist showed a glass strip being used to join two aquariums together to make one large tank . |
| 28 | It deserves to succeed — whether or not it will depends on fax senders being persuaded to produce better quality faxes . |
| 29 | Although it is difficult to determine what was the original material from which these rocks were derived , the general consensus of opinion is that the original material was of igneous origin , with the old term orthogneiss being used to describe these rocks in the past . |
| 30 | Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism . |