Example sentences of "[being] [verb] for by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in five families with children are now being cared for by a single parent — nearly all of them women — compared with one in 12 in 1972 . |
| 2 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 3 | The sun had pierced through the mist , and they were not believing their good luck at being alive , and being cared for by the beautiful colleens . |
| 4 | By the end of November over 5,000 people were estimated to have left Haiti , of whom some 3,500 were being held aboard United States vessels or at US bases , and over 1,000 were being cared for by the Cuban authorities . |
| 5 | Will the vast sums of money which are being asked for by the Governing Bodies of Sport mean that they will price themselves out of the market or will television continue to pay as they compete for audiences ? |
| 6 | The cost of the clinical consequences of their research is currently met by central funding , their research itself being paid for by the Medical Research Council , charities , and the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 7 | Since 1980 , the position has been reversed , with the increase in real income of pensioners being accounted for by a substantial real increase in occupational pensions . |