Example sentences of "[adv] being [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police . |
| 2 | New discoveries are constantly being made through a return to original sources . |
| 3 | An orange box was obviously being used as a replacement for the missing leg as well as serving as a miniature bookcase , for there were seven tattered books on the dividing shelf and a stack of old newspapers below it . |
| 4 | By the second century , Nazarean thought was already being branded as a form of heresy . |
| 5 | No fewer than 13 of the 16 sites identified by the Lanarkshire working group for development as locations for new industrial activity are already being developed as a result of the extra resources and the extra commitment of the Government . |
| 6 | Experimental machines with this capability , and which are deliberately designed for operator programming , are already being developed by a group under the direction of Professor Howard Rosenbrock at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology . |
| 7 | But his ‘ aesthetic humanism ’ which , according to Art News and Review , ‘ has brought man back into the world of visual experiment ’ , was already being challenged by a revival of interest in non-figurative art . |
| 8 | Unknown to her , requests were already being made for a transfer . |
| 9 | Action is already being taken in a number of areas . |
| 10 | It reverted to civilian identity in 1952 , finally being destroyed in a crash at Halfpenny Green on August 13th ( ! ) 1967 . |
| 11 | And the party was all the better for not being spoiled by a strike by lecturers which had been threatened earlier in the week . |
| 12 | Now I would say the welfare of those animals is less good because of that ; even if they are not being challenged by a disease . |
| 13 | At least she herself was not being treated as a suspect . |
| 14 | His name was one of hundreds on the ‘ potential suspect list ’ but he was not being treated as a priority . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , cattle are enemies of grass in that it is still true that an individual grass plant would be better off not being eaten by a cow than being eaten , and any mutant plant that possessed , say , a chemical weapon that protected it against cows , would set more seed ( containing genetic instructions for making the chemical weapon ) than rival members of its own species that were more palatable to cows . |
| 16 | Still , he was very good-looking and not being dressed as a clergyman might be quite an asset to their party . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're not being pushed into a corner , ’ he told her calmly . |
| 18 | But apparently I have to feel The Bump three or four times a day or be found guilty of Not Being Involved as a Father , or worse still , of this darkly Freudian offence called Denial . |
| 19 | Due to the hole not being declared as a solid , the assumption is made that it is a void so that the geometric domain is established for the inserted condition ( as voids can not exist freely outside of solids ) to give the geometric domain as also seen in Figure 2.3 . |
| 20 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |
| 21 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 22 | If course is not being held in a hotel , phone Mel at Portman Travel who will recommend accommodation nearby . |
| 23 | Whenever a claim is presented for damage to the craft occasioned abroad , and the craft has been returned to the U.K. for repair , it must be carefully checked that this period has not been exceeded — and especially that the craft is not being left at a holiday destination for a prolonged period . |
| 24 | It 's carbon , it 's not being used as a fuel it 's just being chucked in , to do something with the with the iron ore and why does it put limestone in it ? |
| 25 | No you 're not being taken for a ride , this is a 19th century cabbies shelter . |
| 26 | They are no longer being managed by the Health Authority across the road , remotely , no no contact between the two , or not enough anyway , no longer being managed by a region fifty miles , or forty miles , whatever it is , up the road to . |
| 27 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 28 | Coalbrookdale acted like a magnet on artists , most of whom painted romantic images of the iron bridge in its wooded valley setting , and the bridge itself was soon being promoted as a tourist attraction . |
| 29 | Instead of just being presented with a list of topics , we now know the relationship between the topics . |
| 30 | He says maybe they could provide separate winter and summer sites for new-age travellers — but I feel we should be allowed to use any piece of land which is just derelict , like the Maxwell land in Oxford which was just being used as a rubbish tip . |