Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hearing into the eviction order is being heard ahead of the other action , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 8 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 9 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 10 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 11 | Thousands of evacuees are now being moved out of the appalling desert slum at Shaalan as the authorities try to ease the tension . |
| 12 | The outer room was already full of readers but people were being turned out of the inner room to make way for the meeting . |
| 13 | Priestley had particular pleasure in recalling that moment in Payday in which Charlie has to walk home through the rain after foolishly spending his pay and after being pushed out of the last tram ; he anticipates his wife 's anger and the return to short rations and yet not all is hopeless , something might turn up . |
| 14 | Mud is being pumped out of the land-locked Alderfen Broad in Norfolk in an attempt to restore a rich water plant community and a healthy fish population . |
| 15 | The government argued that the country 's economic crisis [ see below ] , coupled with the danger of being locked out of the future EC single market and the collapse of communist rule in eastern Europe , made the major shift in policy in favour of EC membership imperative . |
| 16 | He was a youngster of twenty-two just on the point of being invalided out of the Chilean Navy . |
| 17 | After being invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942 , Price joined the company of ( Sir ) Noël Coward [ q.v. ] , who was so impressed by his charm that in 1943 he gave Price the leading role of Charles Condamine in his play , Blithe Spirit , at the Duchess Theatre . |
| 18 | He talks about the hospitals being forced out of the main stream of the Health Service . |
| 19 | If I had to choose one man to kick a 40-yard penalty from close to the touchline to rescue The Earth from being knocked out of the Inter-Galactic Cup in the last minute , Grant Fox would be the man … |
| 20 | Moore 's England props , Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn , belatedly return for Wasps , at home to Blackheath , after being left out of the first two First Division games . |
| 21 | Nicklaus made regular visits to oversee operations as the course was being carved out of the lush countryside . |
| 22 | A similar , if less dramatic , process ‘ was taking place at a lower level ; new urban districts were being carved out of the rural districts ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:200 ) . |
| 23 | Plagues by troubles with management , record companies and poor audience turn-outs — not to mention the agony of seeing their ‘ Breathing Fear ’ 45 being weighted out of the Top 75 by Gallup — band talk during the summer revolved around emigrating to the States and leaving ‘ them ’ all behind . |
| 24 | Similarly , in Moore v Central Electricity Generating Board , 1974 IRLR 296 — the facts of which may cause those interested in civil liberties some concern — an employee who had been held in custody for one month pending trial was dismissed after being convicted not of the original charge preferred but of related offences . |
| 25 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |
| 26 | The funerals are being held today of the seven people who died when Loyalist gunmen attacked a bar at Greysteel in County Londonderry on Saturday night . |