Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK polytechnics have performed a signal service to higher education by showing how professional education can be developed , with practice being placed firmly in a framework of systematic intellectual exploration . |
| 2 | In 1990 , a cluster of increased incidences of leukaemia in young children around Sellafield nuclear power plant in north-west England was explained as being due to reproductive cells in fathers being exposed occupationally to a radiation total dose of over 100 mSv ( Gardner et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Catholic worship continued in many great houses ; Sir Thomas Leedes at Thorne House , Steyning , was only one of a number who kept a priest 's hole against the chance of being given away by an informer . |
| 4 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 5 | And the reason for those is the iron in the blood is being oxidized by various substances in the body , it 's being broken down into a form in which the body can reabsorb that iron , and during the process you go through all these colour changes because of the different forms of iron oxide being produced . |
| 6 | When my right hon. Friend next visits the duchy , will he point out that under our NHS reforms a record number of patients are being treated there by a record number of doctors and nurses , and that waiting lists are falling ? |
| 7 | The rest of Johanna 's clothes , including her underwear , tights and black trainers , were still being examined yesterday at a Home Office laboratory in Huntingdon , Cambs . |
| 8 | Should my hon. Friend happen to be in the Cleveland area , I strongly urge her to go to the South Cleveland hospital to see the excellent work being undertaken there with a bone densitometer . |
| 9 | There is a real risk of it being regarded not as a mate but a meal . |
| 10 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 11 | If you are black you find yourself being addressed directly as an object — and potential subject — of verbal and physical attack . |
| 12 | He could be photographed using the concept keyboard ( and outgrowing the available programmes ) , being squeezed half-way into a hotel loo ( as part of the Access Group ) or simply having a laugh with friends on the scheme who treat him as an equal . |
| 13 | The hearing occupied the justices on 27 and 28 January 1992 , the second day being occupied largely with a consideration of the mother 's application for a contact order . |
| 14 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 15 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 16 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 17 | GOOD to see ( New Scientist , 28 April , p 203 ) that citation indexing is at last being considered seriously as an aid towards more reasonable decisions over research funding in Britain . |
| 18 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 19 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 20 | ‘ Margaret , how did your chum Richard take my being rung up by a patient ? ’ |
| 21 | Therefore , many of us — but especially men — have fears , lurking in our subconscious minds , of being dominated again by a woman . |
| 22 | The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head . |
| 23 | instead of being rolled up in a ball |
| 24 | Only the carpet of snow relieved its drabness , and that was being rolled up by a man driving a small tractor with a scoop on the front . |
| 25 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 26 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |
| 27 | I felt a right idiot , being carried out on a stretcher , everybody gawping at me . |
| 28 | These completely non-invasive techniques have the advantage of being carried out on an outpatient basis but the treatment may take up to two years . |
| 29 | Two UN doctors who got into the area recently reported that amputations were being carried out with a carpenter 's saw and no anaesthetic or antibiotics . |
| 30 | The difficulty with standard significance tests is that their valid and effective use usually depends on the way the data are approached — for example whether the research has been designed with a specific hypothesis in mind or a less focused post hoc analysis is being carried out with a view to revealing underlying patterns . |