Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | He 's being posted out to the West Indies and he 's asked her to marry him and go with him . |
2 | Parking was horrendously difficult , the off-street parking being given over to the Volvos , Rovers and BMWs of the conference-goers . |
3 | It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster — and there used to be a large car park there . |
4 | It seemed , however , that an increasing number of juveniles , with the permission of their parents , were being referred directly to the ASEA committees by teachers , club managers , clergymen , and welfare workers . |
5 | As far as validation of the courses is concerned , this is being undertaken either by the CNAA or by the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester . |
6 | Teesside Park — specialist retail outlets at the old Stockton racecourse , now being developed together with the UK 's largest leisure centre . |
7 | being situated just off the King 's Road it is also ideally placed for an excursion to shops or restaurants . |
8 | Providing no amendments are carried , which looks likely , it will receive the Royal Assent without being considered again by the Commons . |
9 | A number of modifications are being carried out to the BBMF 's other Merlin engines to prevent a recurrence of this type of failure . |
10 | A survey of the groundwater resources on Jersey is being carried out for the States of Jersey . |
11 | For example , on the comment form which we gave to all respondents at the end of the field-work , one policewoman wrote , ‘ The idea of research being carried out within the RUC , or indeed any police force , is a good one . |
12 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |
13 | We agree with CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
14 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
15 | Most of the 38 protocols approved for genetic therapy are being carried out in the United States on patients with cancer . |
16 | The pilot scheme is being carried out in the Matusadona national park near the Zambian border , where the rhino population has dropped from 150 to 16 in the last five years . |
17 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
18 | Erm , we need to value those assets , and the cost of back- work being carried out by the London Buildings Consultancy would be nineteen thousand pounds , some twenty pounds per property . |
19 | In June and July there were the ‘ strawberry specials ’ , 30 tonnes of strawberries being carried daily by the Midland Railway from the Vale of Evesham to London . |
20 | The money will be spent on extending and modernising its Portrack sewage treatment works at Stockton , resulting in ‘ significantly ’ cleaner water being discharged back into the River Tees . |
21 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
22 | Mueller is taking over the plan , and Don is being transferred back to the States . |
23 | In conclusion , although it is difficult to foresee the tide of interest and activity being turned back in the NHS , and a majority of DGMs believe that the new system has already delivered quality improvements ( Appleby et al. |
24 | Refusing to yield , the government said that the workers ' demands would shatter its anti-inflation strategy and warned against the strike being exploited politically by the All-Poland Trade Union Accord ( OPZZ , formerly linked to the PUWP ) which had given the stoppage immediate support . |
25 | Now the Scottish Office says the future of the dental hospital lies in the plans being drawn up by the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to become a self-governing trust . |
26 | Speaking at an international conference in London on the transportation and disposal of hazardous waste on Oct. 4 , 1989 , the European Communities ( EC ) Environment Commissioner , Carlo Ripa Di Meana , said that proposals to make producers of toxic waste liable for the damage and injury they might cause were being drawn up by the EC Commission . |
27 | A list of controlled technologies is being drawn up by the Australia Group and this could be added to UK export regulations this year . |
28 | Guidelines are being drawn up by the IEC . |
29 | Afterwards , in the traffic jam leaving Southampton , party hats were being handed out among the Leeds cars . |
30 | MCI Communications Corp is now shipping the GEC-Marconi Ltd VideoPhone for $1,500 the pair after getting Federal Communications Commission approval for the device , which is being sold here in the UK , in Japan , Singapore and Germany . |