Example sentences of "[being] [verb] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | All these general trends are , however , capable of being reversed at the local level where conditions may occasionally fly in the face of the overall pattern . |
| 62 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 63 | Thereafter all rectal excisions have included the mesorectum , care being taken at the pelvic brim to identify and preserve the pelvic nerves and not to enter Dennonvilliers fascia during the anterior rectal dissection . |
| 64 | Early in November it called a second general strike to protest against the repressive measures being taken at the naval base of Kronstadt , in Poland , and elsewhere . |
| 65 | There were exceptions , again , like Carousel , which is being revived at the National Theatre later this year , and which has a plot bizarre by Verdi 's standards . |
| 66 | Larger families around us were being rehoused at a steady rate , but we were doomed to wait for ever . |
| 67 | Other systems also being tried at the same time included dehydration and injection techniques , the latter to be perfected by a surgeon called Ruysch ( 1665–1717 ) , Professor of Anatomy at Amsterdam . |
| 68 | Only by doing so can one judge whether the amount of procedural protection is being pitched at the correct level . |
| 69 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 70 | SALARIES for university law teachers have slipped so badly and professional salaries risen so dramatically that experienced staff are being lost at an alarming rate , the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools reported this week . |
| 71 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 72 | Notwithstanding its measure of success nationally , the Congress ( I ) did badly in the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh , winning only Rajiv Gandhi 's former seat at Amethi , and none of the 17 state assembly seats being contested at the same time in that state . |
| 73 | The Docklands Light Railway is being extended at an eventual cost of £800 million . |
| 74 | Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy . |
| 75 | The rainforests are being destroyed at a frightening rate , by burning , logging , flooding , mining and pollution . |
| 76 | The lowland tropical forests of eastern Bolivia are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate , according to international aid agencies . |
| 77 | We have farms with dioxin-contaminated milk which must be transferred to the west midlands , where it is not being destroyed at the proper temperature , so dioxin is being spread in the west midlands . |
| 78 | The goods which include caravans , trailers , antiques and jewellery are all being kept at a secret location . |
| 79 | All teams work on individual specifications , with the interaction and integration being handled at a higher level . |
| 80 | SIX YEARS ago San Diego 's police were being killed at a higher rate than the police in any other big American city . |
| 81 | Ministry of Defence and the centralization of the Defence votes , which were being studied at the same time as the Skybolt/Polaris crisis was coming to a head . |
| 82 | In the distance he could hear the requiem mass that was being piped at a discreet volume throughout the store . |
| 83 | Sometimes , clients make various private agreements between themselves concerning part of the money being paid at a later date , or in cash . |
| 84 | A further type of WB is set manually , the camcorder being aimed at a standard reference such as a white card or lens cap . |
| 85 | Ed : Chemistry in Britain , being aimed at a wider audience than the RSC 's primary and secondary publications , will continue to use the familiar ‘ sulphur ’ for the present , at least until general usage begins to reflect the change . |
| 86 | The flavour of the museum is particularly pertinent , while full of railway interest it is a family experience first and foremost rather than being aimed at a specialised section of the enthusiast market . |
| 87 | The nucleosomes are composed of two molecules each of H2A , H2B , H3 and H4 , whereas H1 and its variants do not form part of the nucleosome probably being localized at the internucleosomal level ( 2 ) . |
| 88 | Even butterflies take note of being captured at a certain location and when subsequently released , avoid the area for some while after . |
| 89 | I think that it is an open secret that if the misfortune of a Labour Government being returned at the next election were to befall Britain there would be the mother and father of financial crises , which would lead to an increase in interest rates of at least 2 per cent . |
| 90 | Surely it was his duty to be ? she told herself , not realising that at that very moment he was sitting listening to a paper being read at a learned society , his mind occupied with a particularly tricky question he intended to ask when the speaker sat down . |