Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 2 | In the first case , each text is given its own header , with any material common to all texts being factored out to an overall corpus header . |
| 3 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 4 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 5 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 6 | The seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys , in one of his less endearing passages , describes witnessing the chilling effects of this toxin being given experimentally to a hapless dog in a London gentleman 's club . |
| 7 | Consequently herbs were simply not part of the garden scene , being tucked away in an odd corner of the vegetable garden , or grown half-heartedly in pots or window-boxes , where they became aphid-ridden and dusty . |
| 8 | ‘ The hearing into the eviction order is being heard ahead of the other action , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But of fat fairies bearing hot sweet tea there was never a sign and the fingers of the station clock jerked away the minutes with maddening languor , the tedium of their watch being broken only by the intermittent arrivals and departure of train . |
| 10 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
| 11 | The problem with this argument is , of course , that market forces may sometimes fail , owing to the fact that the customer may not be in a position from which to tell whether he is being treated fairly by the financial conglomerate . |
| 12 | Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad . |
| 13 | The examination committee records in London show that the majority of students were examined after nine or 18 months ' instruction , and even then they stood a chance of being referred back for a further period of study . |
| 14 | The week before , the name of Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens , was being bandied around as the latest answer to all of Wales ' woes . |
| 15 | It 's only 18 months to two years since he was being bandied about as a possible England boss . |
| 16 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 17 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 18 | The initiative is being undertaken jointly with the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum . |
| 19 | Ask a hundred people what their least favourite part of the Spectrum is and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of the keyboard being pointed out as a prime culprit . |
| 20 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 21 | SunSoft Inc 's all-important solution for running Microsoft Corp Windows applications on its watershed Solaris 2.0-on-Intel operating system is reportedly being developed outside by a little-known 10-person firm called Praxsys Technologies Inc in Norwood , Massachusetts . |
| 22 | Indeed , an article at this length will frequently avoid mentioning any work of art by name , being limited instead to a generalised description of an artist 's work . |
| 23 | The war of words between the two parties often reflected this sense of historical continuity , the roots of the divide frequently being traced back to the 1640s . |
| 24 | Homosexual acts are always second best for them and they are in no sense sexually disabled , as are certain human males or females who are incapable of being aroused sexually by the opposite sex . |
| 25 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 26 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 27 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 28 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 29 | So it can observe the animals illuminated by its red searchlight , while they swim in the dark , quite unaware that they are being eyed up as a potential meal . |
| 30 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |