Example sentences of "[is] being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not getting the best of scoring service at the moment … he s being used as the target . |
| 2 | If it 's being run for the short-term , they reckon , that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism . |
| 3 | It 's being run by the car parts company Unipart , to give specialist training for its four thousand employees . |
| 4 | And it , it has huge implications for the Communist Party that look a rural revolution is taking place and it 's being led by the peasantry . |
| 5 | It 's being ridden by the owner . |
| 6 | The National Hockey Centre 's being built near the city centre and Britain 's coach for one is happy that Milton Keynes is to become hockey 's equivalent of Lord 's and Twickenham . |
| 7 | A spectacular opening to the £65,000 clinic designed as a counselling centre and to treat children with special needs ; the clinic 's being named after the rock musician Steve Winwood , who raised funds for the centre where his wife Gina is a voluntary helper . |
| 8 | While the village unit remained small there was less chance of a decision 's being imposed by the community 's more influential members , and in any case the imposition of status and ranking tended to reduce the passive acceptance of inferiority which might have attended its acquisition through achievement or wealth . |
| 9 | Wellingborough against Brackley in the Hillier Cup , that 's being played at the Dog and Duck ground , I would imagine it 's blow football in a pub , and finally , in the Overton Papers combination , pretty boring this one — Watford Reserves against Oxford Reserves . |
| 10 | I 'm here for a case that 's being heard in the Appeal Court … ’ |
| 11 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
| 12 | to find out why she 's being kept in the dark and |
| 13 | Only grey mud is visible on the drill pipes at the moment and that 's being pumped into the well to bring up the rock fragments from below . |
| 14 | Once they 've , you 've got their clothing off they can probably stand in a shower , but remember to take their boots off or whatever or shoes of because if you do n't they 're going to stand in a , in a dilute solution of whatever it is that 's being absorbed by the skin . |
| 15 | Um I think um where I 've seen things that er discussed under the heading of child sex abuse erm er it 's often the case that um y'know maybe in some families you find the situation where there 's a daughter who 's being abused by the father and then when the brother gets old enough to take an interest in sexuality , he joins in as well sort of thing and it 's er y'know it 's like there 's two blokes abusing the girl . |
| 16 | And this one is a very interesting project because it 's being done under the director of , direction of Dr. Michael Eraut in the University , but it involves not merely the University but the East Sussex County Council . |
| 17 | It 's being done by the Hudlin brothers who did House Party . |
| 18 | So are we actually putting our feet into what 's being done by the district councils over c thirteen . |
| 19 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 20 | It 's being held in the town that claims it 's the birthplace of British ballooning . |
| 21 | Because it 's being betrayed by the people who are meant to govern it . |
| 22 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 23 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 24 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 25 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 26 | We have n't seen an enormous amount of Ecstasy , but we are aware that it 's being used in the region . ’ |
| 27 | Can I remind conference that there 'll be a collection for the Burnsall strikers , that 's being taken at the door , immediately you going out . |
| 28 | A fourteen-year-old offender who 's had three holidays in Spain this year at tax payers ' expense has had a court case adjourned because he 's being interviewed by the police on other matters . |
| 29 | But it 's being stretched to the limit . |
| 30 | Yes well it 's being suggested by the plaintiff that in fact it was shoved into the back behind his right ear like like I 'm doing with my fingers . |