Example sentences of "[being] [verb] by the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | He asserted that rising crime , lawlessness in the economic sphere , and a general " legal nihilism in society " were being compounded by the authorities ' failure to act decisively . |
2 | No. 50 , in page 38 , line 22 , leave out from person' to whether' in line 23 and insert appointed by being nominated by the students ' association of the college' . |
3 | No. 51 , in page 38 , line 33 , leave out from beginning to ‘ shall ’ and insert ‘ appointed by being nominated by the students ' association of the college ’ . |
4 | No. 52 , in page 38 , line 39 , leave out from ‘ by ’ to ‘ shall ’ in line 40 , and insert ‘ being nominated by the students ' association of the college ’ . |
5 | The friendship of the M family helped to reinforce the efforts being made by the children 's mother to create a more stable background for her family . |
6 | England 's far-sighted youth development policy is now being matched by the selectors ' willingness to throw teenagers in at the deep end . |
7 | Anyone with a slightly cynical bent would have initial difficulty being convinced by the Inspirals ' contentment with their shrunken market — as someone who last saw the Inspirals dwarfed by a wealth of pyrotechnics and gargantuan lighting at Reading , your correspondent can only assert the view that their new scaled-down persona does them more than a few favours . |
8 | The comments by Field and Verney concluded with a strong recommendation that every resource of television production should be lavished on programmes for children ‘ if they are to watch intelligently and develop into ready viewers for that ‘ better ’ Television being demanded by the critics ' and sought after by the industry itself . |
9 | Beneath my feet and beside me to my right , were the sheer pale grey rocks that were the andesitic relics of all the ancient turbulence and torture which had been and was still being caused by the plates ' gentle , turgid but quite inevitable meeting . |