Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 2 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 3 | Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad . |
| 4 | The week before , the name of Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens , was being bandied around as the latest answer to all of Wales ' woes . |
| 5 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 6 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 7 | The war of words between the two parties often reflected this sense of historical continuity , the roots of the divide frequently being traced back to the 1640s . |
| 8 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |
| 9 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 10 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 11 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 12 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 13 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 14 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |
| 15 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 16 | What was in fact happening , as the wizard knew , was that as the abused spirit of Bel-Shamharoth sank through the deeper chthonic planes his brooding spirit was being sucked out of the very stones into the region which , according to the discworld 's most reliable priests , was both under the ground and Somewhere Else . |
| 17 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 18 | Seoul silver medallist Christie left Canada 's Johnson — sensationally stripped of the gold and world record after being slung out of the 1988 Games after testing positive for steroid abuse — stumbling in his wake . |
| 19 | SMALL businesses are in danger of being frozen out of the pre-election debate , the Forum of Private Business , one of the sector 's most active lobbyists , says today . |
| 20 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 21 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 22 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 23 | Eighty two staff at the Sainsbury 's supermarket on Tewkesbury Road in Cheltenham have contracted what 's thought to be a virus infection that causes fever , aches and vomiting.They 've all been sent home , and staff from other stores have been drafted in to keep the supermarket open.Tests are being carried out at the public health laboratory in the town to identify the illness.But Cheltenham 's Assistant Chief Environmental health officer says shoppers at the store should n't be worried about the outbreak : |
| 24 | Much of the field work is being carried out on the Upper Livulezi in Malawi . |
| 25 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 26 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 27 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday on Skye . |
| 28 | In more anthropomorphic terms , it is as if one of the particles ‘ knows ’ what measurement is being carried out on the other and adjusts its state accordingly . |
| 29 | On structural grounds alone , a new building was needed as it was now so weak that it probably would not be able to withstand building operations being carried out on the surrounding land . |
| 30 | Keith Pennyfeather , a senior countryside officer with the commission said : ‘ Much of the restoration being carried out on the Pennine Way inevitably occurs at remote sites a considerable distance from the nearest road . |