Example sentences of "[being] [verb] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 2 | Secondly , the third-floor accommodation , lit only by the small clerestory windows of the nave ( composed of shallower paired lancets ) , managed to obtain the necessary amount of daylight from the glazing being placed at the rear of the original traceried stonework where the splayed internal window-revels generate an area exposed to daylight which is larger than the window area seen from outside ( Fig 46 ) . |
| 3 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 4 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 5 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |
| 6 | After being enrolled at the university at the age of seventeen , Freud studied physiology , biology and anatomy . |
| 7 | Diane Wright , of The Greenway , Dovecote , Liverpool , was being treated at the hospital for anorexia . |
| 8 | Last night she was still being treated at the Countess of Chester hospital and under sedation . |
| 9 | If both , in what combination ? etc. — we shall refer to a pseudo policy rule , of which the simplest example is , is the unemployment rate which is expected to prevail in period t , this expectation being formed at the end of period t - 1 with the aid of a knowledge of . |
| 10 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 11 | This activity , along with the History of Ageing ( see C below ) is being undertaken at the Group by the Rank Xerox Unit of ageing . |
| 12 | The experimental GROPE system , which gives tactile feedback , is being developed at the University of North Carolina . |
| 13 | To make the process as uniform as possible the professionals will use standardised methods covering a range of possible problems , such as those included in the Camberwell assessment of need , which is being developed at the Institute of Psychiatry ( box 4 ) . |
| 14 | in respect of self-employed persons , in receipt of National Insurance Unemployment Benefit or in the absence of the entitlement to such benefit provides satisfactory evidence of being registered at the Department of Employment ( DHSS in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 15 | All of these different circumstances , with the added natural factor of increased birth-rates in a non-serf-owning environment , resulted in Siberia being inhabited at the end of the eighteenth century by an overwhelmingly Russian peasant population . |
| 16 | In the World Cup matches against France and Scotland , Richard Hill was being hounded at the base of the scrum . |
| 17 | I remember being amazed at the size of the placenta , which resembled a football and the lack of discomfort which accompanied its arrival . |
| 18 | Schemes are , however , being considered at the Bay of Fundy , which has 37 sites suitable for tidal power schemes , and the Severn in the UK , although the economic viability of the latter is still uncertain . |
| 19 | Evidence for the importance of this ‘ rural-urban shift ’ can be found in the fact that London sustained such heavy population loss in the 1970s despite being located at the heart of the most dynamic region in the UK . |
| 20 | When ( and only when ) five items have accumulated by being added at the end of the previous complete sentence , you reply with the type of shop — in this case obviously a chemist 's shop . |
| 21 | London Underground said last night the station was in the process of being evacuated at the time of the blast . |
| 22 | The lawyer may wish to eschew the elevation of efficiency if he thinks it is being pursued at the expense of other desirable goals such as fairness and equality of opportunity , goals which he may feel are more important than efficiency . |
| 23 | And as Jake nodded , Shiona reluctantly resigned herself to being trapped at the table with him for another little while . |
| 24 | The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged . |
| 25 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 26 | This part closely resembled Brodrick 's best-known building , Leeds Town Hall , which was the result of a competition that he had won in 1853 and was being built at the time of the Government Offices competition . |
| 27 | The action-packed day costs £249 and includes being met at the airport by Rudolf the reindeer , a trip to the Arctic Circle and Santa Village , snowmobiling and reindeer rides , a buffet lunch and a chance to do some shopping . |
| 28 | No , no , erm this is being done at the University of Surrey . |
| 29 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 30 | On the other hand , in another part of the press release , Ray Noorda ( the President and CEO of Novell ) makes a conflicting observation : ‘ This acquisition is being done at the urging of customers who have asked us to support the UNIX system directly and integrate it more fully within the Netware environment . ’ |