Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations . |
| 2 | The classical view was that progression occurred in a zigzag fashion by movements of the legs in two alternating groups , the fore and hind legs of one side and the mid leg of the other side being moved forward simultaneously while the insect is balanced on a " tripod of support " formed by the remaining three legs . |
| 3 | Expedition is useful in the case of property being resold very shortly after the unregistered title has been purchased , when it 's desired to give the new purchaser a registered title and completion is to take place before the title would normally be registered . |
| 4 | An independent hint that it was being used even earlier than the Shang dynasty is the appearance of turquoise , the nearest sources of which were situated on the Iranian plateau , during the initial Erh-li-t'ou stage of the Bronze Age . ’ |
| 5 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 6 | Unless Mr Kravchuk — who likes to be seen holding the spiky bulava ( mace ) , the symbol of Ukraine 's bygone Cossack leaders — puts his vanity aside , he could end up being judged as harshly as the most famous Cossack , Bohdan Khmelnytsky . |
| 7 | Monsters were being created as early as the fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Iran . |