Example sentences of "[noun] being [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the Kitchen herbs are liable not to be used unless they are very close to hand for the cook ; in the rush of making up food amongst all the other demands being made at the same time , a trough or window-box of herbs on the Kitchen windowsill or just outside the backdoor will ensure that culinary herbs are used daily . |
| 2 | There is another kind of experiment being performed at the electron-positron storage rings at DESY , the German particle-physics laboratory in Hamburg . |
| 3 | They want the statue to be resited in the national conservation HQ being created at the old Midland Goods Depot . |
| 4 | The the question mark I 've got is tha is that I I certainly accept that , it 's the it 's the question of the work being done at the appropriate level and the erm , the the fact that two sub teams are working without a complaint examiner , and , but I |
| 5 | Notwithstanding its measure of success nationally , the Congress ( I ) did badly in the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh , winning only Rajiv Gandhi 's former seat at Amethi , and none of the 17 state assembly seats being contested at the same time in that state . |
| 6 | Under the Conservative government , as noted , the tax system became less progressive , with the major reductions being made at the top end of the tax range and there were increases in national insurance and the nonprogressive indirect taxes . |
| 7 | But the chances of a future Messiaen , Boulez or Cage being nurtured at the comprehensive seem slim . |
| 8 | Mr Reid maintains he was refused the right to call witnesses on his behalf while Mrs Gerrie said she could not remember a request being made at the original hearing . |
| 9 | One of the topics being raised at the coming General Synod in a Private Member 's motion is the whole question of our treatment of animals , and I include an article about this . |
| 10 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 11 | I think that it is an open secret that if the misfortune of a Labour Government being returned at the next election were to befall Britain there would be the mother and father of financial crises , which would lead to an increase in interest rates of at least 2 per cent . |
| 12 | The two parts of the base were joined in the same way , the lower loops of the ropework being added at the same time . |
| 13 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 14 | The Scottish Business Insider quotes some of the projects being undertaken at the Parallel Computing Centre of Edinburgh University . |
| 15 | Early in November it called a second general strike to protest against the repressive measures being taken at the naval base of Kronstadt , in Poland , and elsewhere . |
| 16 | This development , privatized using an Urban Development Grant in the early 1980s , was not originally associated with slum clearance and was actually more expensive per unit than the traditional housing being built at the same time . |
| 17 | There is general dissatisfaction with direct debits being charged at the wrong time or from the wrong account and so-called ‘ phantom withdrawals ’ from ATMs . |
| 18 | It was the kind of notepaper being used at the Zoological Society at the time , and completely unlike anything ever used by Darwin . |
| 19 | What was needed instead was some means of setting up the apparatus so that each detector could not ‘ know ’ in advance the polarisation being detected at the other side of the experiment . |