Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 2 | The bulk pack being broken down into smaller units for re-sale to other parents with the school taking a percentage of the discount . |
| 3 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 4 | The law protects tenants from being ripped off by rack-rent thugs . |
| 5 | Also blood , and menstrual cramps and the thought of labour pains and being stitched up and being woken in the night by a shitty damp bundle and having my tits tugged and bitten , and being mauled around by macho chauvinist piglings who call themselves obstetricians . |
| 6 | They say reading and writing tuition is being squeezed out by other subjects . |
| 7 | There was some activity , and the fires were clearly being stoked up with fresh wood to give more light ; and lit lamps were moving here and there . |
| 8 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 9 | they were being picked up by two Commandos and dumped on the grass verge . |
| 10 | In a similar way , he developed a totally new technique for studying branching fibres by using pairs of fluorescent dyes , with the potential for being picked up by separate branches . |
| 11 | Despite being picked out in this way there were still failures and difficulties . |
| 12 | The Daimler-Benz study claims that carbon dioxide levels will actually increase by 10 per cent over the period because control efforts are being cancelled out by increased traffic volumes . |
| 13 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 14 | It will be tested on TVS before being rolled out across other regions , and success is being monitored on a cost-per-response basis through an 0800 number . |
| 15 | Happily , the message is also being carried back to Japanese manufacturers . |
| 16 | they usually involve a significant part of the work being carried out without close supervision ; |
| 17 | Research is being carried out through 16 months ' fieldwork , using the standard anthropological techniques of participant observation and intensive interviewing , in four sample fishing communities in the Gothenburg area , and in the offices of fishermen 's organisations and government bureaux in Gothenburg . |
| 18 | Formalin fixed wax embedded sections ( 4 cm ) of the colonic tissues were dewaxed in xylene , rehydrated in alcohol and spirit ( 95% alcohol ) , each step being carried out for five minutes at room temperature , then washed in cold water . |
| 19 | ‘ It also fits in with work being carried out at other research centres . |
| 20 | Further extensive tests are still being carried out on other samples but so far no trace of Miss Larkin , 24 , has been found . |
| 21 | POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS / ARE BEING CARRIED OUT ON TWO BODIES / FOUND YESTERDAY ON SKYE |
| 22 | Blacon has benefited from the Estate Action programme before with £1.5m worth of work being carried out on 80 homes . |
| 23 | Dr Zanda said that it was essential to agree common standards for any works being carried out on both shores and that an international statute governing the Adriatic should be drawn up to which all states bordering on its coasts should adhere . |
| 24 | The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols . |
| 25 | Tests were being carried out on suspected drugs thought to include heroin , ecstasy , cocaine , LSD and cannabis . |
| 26 | The pilot project is being carried out on three forces and an independent evaluation will be completed in the spring of 1992 . |
| 27 | On the telecommunications side , research is being carried out into high bandwidths that require high repetition pulses — a rate of 200GHz has been achieved and into Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers , which are a key component for future optical networks . |
| 28 | Perhaps the regrettable feature of the conversion of Shawell school — which is being carried out with great care and sensitivity — is the retention of the 1950s flat-roofed WCs extension which , almost gratuitously , fails to relate in any way to the form of the original building . |
| 29 | His trip was a mark of recognition for the humanitarian work being carried out in former Yugoslavia by 2,500 British troops in Operation Grapple and countless civilians co-ordinating and delivering aid . |
| 30 | To collect the data , surveys are being carried out in selected superstores and interviews are being undertaken with employees , managers , retail executives , union officers and job centres . |