Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 2 | Every log , as it is picked up , can be examined as an individual work of art — shape , grain , colour , weight — before being placed carefully on the fire in the correct position , to give its own artistic display of pyrotechnics . |
| 3 | Original intentions to replace large-scale institutions with statutory services provided in the community have increasingly been modified , with a growing emphasis being placed instead on the role of families , friends and neighbours as the main providers of ‘ community care ’ . |
| 4 | Lighting was provided by a main bulb in a brass-rimmed glass bowl in the centre of the ceiling , with other bulbs along the edge , one being placed conveniently near the bulkhead to illuminate the tail lamp bullseye . |
| 5 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 7 | There will usually follow some negotiations with the promoters and these may lead to an amendment to the order , to the insertion of a protective clause to meet the various objections , or , quite frequently , to an undertaking being given apart from the order in consideration of the withdrawal of the petition . |
| 8 | And owning two British cars is quite good at a time when our motor industry is being given away to the Japanese , along with assorted golf courses . |
| 9 | It was in fact a large room divided in two , one half being given over to the mistress 's wardrobe and dressing stool , with the pier-glass in the corner , the other providing a small chamber with room only for a cot bed . |
| 10 | A member of staff from Finance contacted the team concerned that her name was being given out on the radio . |
| 11 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 12 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 13 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 14 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 15 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 16 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 17 | Replacement equipment was being flown out to the rig from the helicopter 's base at Aberdeen . |
| 18 | On the one hand , it has been interpreted as indicating a revival of entrepreneurial vigour with new firms being formed either on the basis of new technologies or else in order to exploit market opportunities which have emerged as a result of the recession . |
| 19 | In Eastern Europe , meanwhile , new nation states are being formed out of the debris of the old system and nationalist feeling is exceptionally strong , and it is an open question whether some of these states will in due course be incorporated in an enlarged EC or perhaps in some still wider , but as yet only vaguely conceived , ‘ European homeland ’ ( to use Gorbachev 's expression ) . |
| 20 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 21 | People are always being Healed down at the church . |
| 22 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 23 | The all-male strip troupe are being checked out by the Office of Fair Trading after a rival group complained about unfair practices . |
| 24 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 25 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 26 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of compact discs has denied accusations that music lovers are being ripped off over the cost . |
| 27 | Despite dire tales of distribution being ripped off outside the paper , figures of 50,000 sales were being quoted , and 40,000 was probably being touched . |
| 28 | The outcome was that we won the match , reaching 159 for 9 with our unbroken last-wicket partnership of 68 being completed entirely with the assistance of runners . |
| 29 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |
| 30 | The Gothic revival , with the complementary pre-Raphaelite movement in literature and painting , was then reaching its height ; new materials were coming into use , and church restoration was being undertaken widely throughout the country . |