Example sentences of "[is] being [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objectors say a holiday village that 's being planned near a historic Cotswold village could ruin the whole character of the area . |
| 2 | The incident 's being regarded as an opportunist theft and it 's unlikely anything taken would be of any use to a drug abuser . |
| 3 | On this , consideration should be given to the position of the Chairman of the Committee : to the desirability that he or she should be full-time , with a more critical and independent role ; and , in recognition of the Committee 's independence in operation from the Government Departments principally constituting it , to the Chairman 's being appointed by the Prime Minister and being a member of the Cabinet Office . |
| 4 | It 's being fed into a shredding machine as part of the city 's re-cycling scheme . |
| 5 | The tanker was searched by coastguards protected by the marines from H M S Brazen and was found to be carrying stores in breach of the UN embargo ; it 's being diverted to a nearby port on the coast of Amman for further investigations . |
| 6 | Well , I ca n't let you listen to what 's being said in the entire house without having access to the entire house . |
| 7 | He 's being treated for a punctured lung at the town 's general hospital . |
| 8 | A disabled teenager who 's being treated by a Russian physiotherapist has been told his trainer must go home because his visa has run out . |
| 9 | And er he 's being followed by an unmarked police car . |
| 10 | A woman 's being questioned about the attempted murder of a man who was dragged underneath a car . |
| 11 | For Japanese to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin , despite Japan 's success in proving herself the military and political equal of other powers , implied the virtual impossibility of Japan 's being accepted as a full equal by the industrialized nations of the West . |
| 12 | Her supporters included Thomas Hess , Meyer Schapiro , Leo Steinberg , Harold Rosenberg , and Peter Selz , and their intervention , asserting that Canaday had offended Ashton 's ‘ rights and responsibilities as a critic ’ , resulted in Canaday 's being censured by the American art critics ' association . |
| 13 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 14 | It 's being reported by an American television network , that Iraq is saying that all foreign hostages in Saddam Hussein 's human shield , can leave Kuwait and Baghdad if President Bush promises not to launch an attack . |
| 15 | Buckingham 's influence was responsible for Crowe 's being entrusted with the delicate mission of pawning some of the duke 's and king 's jewels at Amsterdam in 1626 , his being created baronet in 1627 , and his appointment as treasurer of the navy in March 1627 . |
| 16 | On the Cambrian lines , a basic diet of 156 's and 155's was promised with some 153 's being used on the Cambrian Coast line services . |
| 17 | It 's not therefore new money that 's coming to us , it 's , it 's money that 's already in the system , it 's being used by an existing client route , and it 's being used to buy a chair that is already there . |
| 18 | Amazing is n't it ? that now Batty 's moved to Blackburn , within a month he 's being hailed as a good passer of the ball . |
| 19 | The decision 's being hailed as a legal milestone . |
| 20 | The data base of the project is being constructed from a wide range of sources , including reports , documentation on the development of the Political Studies Association , and interviews with early members of the association . |
| 21 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 22 | When the invoice comes in for payment , this is copied on to the system as well , and Caterdata first searches for the equivalent delivery note to check that Brown is being charged for the right goods . |
| 23 | Will he ensure specifically that the Home Secretary gives an assurance that no pressure or persuasion is being applied to the Metropolitan police in the case of Mr. Mohinder Paul Singh Bedi of Hayes to halt their inquiries or withdraw requests to investigate the bank accounts of Members of Parliament who have business or other links with Mr. Bedi ? |
| 24 | The reader should note the analogy ( similarity ) to the domestic funds flow concept explained in Chapter 1 , now it is being applied to the international economy . |
| 25 | The lament is being played for the old military musical structure after the study found many could not even meet the required level of 20 men each and their music was suffering . |
| 26 | The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 27 | Ingres is being ported to the Topsy loosely-coupled computer at the London City University 's Parallel Applications Centre : Topsy runs a distributed Unix-compatible kernel called Meshix , and uses Motorola 68030 or MIPS R3000 chips . |
| 28 | This is a United Nations embargo , er and er all ships are required to comply with it , er and er the British , Australian , American ships which combined in this action , and we 've just had another one , and er also , there which involved also different ships , but involved er British , Australian and American ships as well , er and that ship is being inspected at the present time . |
| 29 | Imagine that gas is being fed onto the outermost orbit in Fig. 5 a . |
| 30 | At the finishing cropper where carpets are given their final sheer to achieve a smooth and even surface , £25,000 is being invested on an automatic height adjuster . |