Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 3 | ‘ The hearing into the eviction order is being heard ahead of the other action , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad . |
| 7 | The week before , the name of Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens , was being bandied around as the latest answer to all of Wales ' woes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The initiative is being undertaken jointly with the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |
| 15 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 16 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 17 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 18 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 19 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 20 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |
| 21 | The show is being organised jointly by the Industrial Development Board and the Irish Trade Board . |
| 22 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 23 | What was in fact happening , as the wizard knew , was that as the abused spirit of Bel-Shamharoth sank through the deeper chthonic planes his brooding spirit was being sucked out of the very stones into the region which , according to the discworld 's most reliable priests , was both under the ground and Somewhere Else . |
| 24 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 25 | Seoul silver medallist Christie left Canada 's Johnson — sensationally stripped of the gold and world record after being slung out of the 1988 Games after testing positive for steroid abuse — stumbling in his wake . |
| 26 | SMALL businesses are in danger of being frozen out of the pre-election debate , the Forum of Private Business , one of the sector 's most active lobbyists , says today . |
| 27 | Although originally the aim was to promote Chartered Manager status , this aim is now being pursued independently by the British Institute of Management , with the approval of CMEAD . |
| 28 | The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began . |
| 29 | Under duress from external events , she practised collective Cabinet government in something approaching the traditional form , though David Howell , at that time Secretary of State for Transport , cautions against being carried away by the collective theme : |
| 30 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |