Example sentences of "[being] [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Incidentally , the first report of a Rottweiler being shown at an official dog show was at Heilbronn in 1882 . |
| 32 | On the afternoon of the Latin exam , a very good film was being shown at the neighbouring cinema to my school . |
| 33 | In order to have a sense of how the different codes are used in interactions , it is necessary for the linguist to be quite clear about which code is being used at a particular time . |
| 34 | Round hands As has been suggested in the last section , secretary and humanistic italic , both cursive hands , were being used at the same time in England for all kinds of general and vernacular purposes . |
| 35 | Both methods are currently being used at the Nuclear Structure Facility ( NSF ) at the Daresbury Laboratory near Warrington . |
| 36 | It was the kind of notepaper being used at the Zoological Society at the time , and completely unlike anything ever used by Darwin . |
| 37 | If directives are not being enforced at a local level , the EC market will remain unfair . |
| 38 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 39 | There is another kind of experiment being performed at the electron-positron storage rings at DESY , the German particle-physics laboratory in Hamburg . |
| 40 | The Edel MacBride label is already familiar to Chicago with clothing being sold at a large department store in the city . |
| 41 | What was called a cart load of peat was being sold at the high price of 2/6 . |
| 42 | The mantle currently being sampled at a distal ocean island must have undergone fractionation of U/Pb when it was located close to a cooling ridge ( in the case of Madeira ) or a cooling plume head ( in the case of the Cameroon line ) . |
| 43 | And was partially at least the inevitable consequence of the fact that the Murphy brothers were being prosecuted at the same time as the complaint against the arresting officers was being investigated . |
| 44 | ‘ Being called at an inconvenient time by an insensitive caller who assumes that since you 've answered the phone it must be convenient to talk ’ . |
| 45 | What was needed instead was some means of setting up the apparatus so that each detector could not ‘ know ’ in advance the polarisation being detected at the other side of the experiment . |
| 46 | This is a United Nations embargo , er and er all ships are required to comply with it , er and er the British , Australian , American ships which combined in this action , and we 've just had another one , and er also , there which involved also different ships , but involved er British , Australian and American ships as well , er and that ship is being inspected at the present time . |
| 47 | As mental health charity MIND produced a report criticising ‘ continued over-reliance on hospital treatment ’ , King said : ‘ It looks as if hospitals are being replaced at a reasonable pace . ’ |
| 48 | County roles take members into schools in their day-to-day work , and for some of the team 's functions ( especially the selection of schools for recommendation for inclusion in the project ) the project role is being played at the same time . |
| 49 | ( a ) Middle East Economic Survey ( MEES ) , indicating the terms on which both freight and insurance were being negotiated at a particular stage of the war , described the freight element as follows : ‘ Kharg to Europe : W70-80 . |
| 50 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 51 | She faced her anger at being abandoned at an earlier age than anyone would have expected , and talked about loneliness . |
| 52 | The small size of the population of Northern Ireland , together with the political difficulties experienced by the province , have led to many services being administered at a provincial level . |
| 53 | A somewhat similar note was being struck at the same time in Scotland by the lay theologian Thomas Erskine of Linlathen ( 1788–1870 ) . |
| 54 | ‘ Fundamental questions are being posed at the same time about the company itself and about the strategic character of the industry . ’ |
| 55 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |
| 56 | At the last minute , however , when the terms were being finalised at the papal court , the French withdrew : the making of such concessions , which involved so much principle as well as territory , could not be countenanced . |
| 57 | There is general dissatisfaction with direct debits being charged at the wrong time or from the wrong account and so-called ‘ phantom withdrawals ’ from ATMs . |
| 58 | It also had an upgraded processor , Intel 8086 , which was a more capable version of the 8088 , and , incidentally , was capable of being run at a faster speed — although it was n't . |
| 59 | Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day . |
| 60 | And he said , oh well it 's probably being discussed at the next meeting . |