Example sentences of "[adj] being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lift was absolutely essential for some of the barrels were extremely large being brought from the Goods Station on horse-drawn drays and then manoeuvred to the road on specially constructed ramps which clipped to bars at the back of the carts . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this notion of the station as strong point continued , and was partly the reason for many being built outside the communities they served . |
| 3 | The role of the state and the issues of democratisation , economic liberalisation , and territorial decentralisation are all being changed in the countries of Eastern Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union in the rapid transitions from authoritarian rule by Soviet-style communist parties . |
| 4 | Witton , like their opponents , are also attempting to reach the final for the first time and today 's clash at Marine 's Rossett Park ground is all-ticket with a crowd limit of 2,500 being set by the police . |
| 5 | The YCCC however were able to raise public awareness of the issues involved , and in doing so learned that the only taxes coming from the tannery were those being paid by the workers themselves , that the city was grossly undercharging the tannery for the use of the sewage treatment plant , and that there was a sewer-use ordinance that , if enforced , would solve the problem immediately by cutting the tannery off from the sewage treatment plant . |
| 6 | For these reasons , it was argued , the previous relative advantages of an urban location ( including agglomeration economies ) were by 1966 being outweighed by the disadvantages . |
| 7 | The people around him have been very receptive , although I must confess to an anxious moment when he was first being introduced to the players . |
| 8 | Here was the Acropolis , which had dominated the city since the second millennium BC , and older than Judaic Jerusalem ( King David 's city ) by 500 years ; the Agora , the civic centre , formerly situated between the Acropolis and the main gate to the city ; both being crowned by the remains of the Parthenon , that geometric and architectural treasure widely copied — from Birmingham , England , to Nashville , Tennessee . |
| 9 | So far they have set up Parish Maps , New Milestones and recently Trees , Woods and the Green Man projects — the last being connected to the Orchards exhibition . |