Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [prep] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long ago as the 1960s the possibility of this form of cursor control was being looked at by the Stanford Research Institute in California and the first mouse was patented in 1970 . |
| 2 | There are 120 cats and dogs being looked after at the RSPCA 's animal shelter in Whitminster near Stroud . |
| 3 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 4 | Shiloh , now renamed Blackie , is still being cared for at the Bothwellbridge Animal Welfare Centre at Hamilton . |
| 5 | New approaches to community care , using low-paid or unpaid neighbours or other local carers , as substitutes or supplements to family or friends and supported by official social services , are currently being experimented with in the Kent Community Care Scheme , the Age Concern and Guy 's Hospital Home Support Project and a scheme being tried out in Bexley ( Challis and Davis , 1983 ; Maitland , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | This advance is of the first importance to the population of the People 's Republic of China , and an agreement is being entered into between the Rank Xerox Unit and the Demography Institute of the University of Peking in Beijing . |