Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 2 | Every log , as it is picked up , can be examined as an individual work of art — shape , grain , colour , weight — before being placed carefully on the fire in the correct position , to give its own artistic display of pyrotechnics . |
| 3 | Original intentions to replace large-scale institutions with statutory services provided in the community have increasingly been modified , with a growing emphasis being placed instead on the role of families , friends and neighbours as the main providers of ‘ community care ’ . |
| 4 | Lighting was provided by a main bulb in a brass-rimmed glass bowl in the centre of the ceiling , with other bulbs along the edge , one being placed conveniently near the bulkhead to illuminate the tail lamp bullseye . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 6 | There will usually follow some negotiations with the promoters and these may lead to an amendment to the order , to the insertion of a protective clause to meet the various objections , or , quite frequently , to an undertaking being given apart from the order in consideration of the withdrawal of the petition . |
| 7 | And owning two British cars is quite good at a time when our motor industry is being given away to the Japanese , along with assorted golf courses . |
| 8 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 9 | It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster — and there used to be a large car park there . |
| 10 | So Scotland is being treated well under the measures . |
| 11 | It seemed , however , that an increasing number of juveniles , with the permission of their parents , were being referred directly to the ASEA committees by teachers , club managers , clergymen , and welfare workers . |
| 12 | On the one hand , it has been interpreted as indicating a revival of entrepreneurial vigour with new firms being formed either on the basis of new technologies or else in order to exploit market opportunities which have emerged as a result of the recession . |
| 13 | The outcome was that we won the match , reaching 159 for 9 with our unbroken last-wicket partnership of 68 being completed entirely with the assistance of runners . |
| 14 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |
| 15 | As far as validation of the courses is concerned , this is being undertaken either by the CNAA or by the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester . |
| 16 | The Gothic revival , with the complementary pre-Raphaelite movement in literature and painting , was then reaching its height ; new materials were coming into use , and church restoration was being undertaken widely throughout the country . |
| 17 | Teesside Park — specialist retail outlets at the old Stockton racecourse , now being developed together with the UK 's largest leisure centre . |
| 18 | Most people use their own bodyweight as a stretching aid , with the number of different ways to stretch being limited only by the imagination . |
| 19 | being situated just off the King 's Road it is also ideally placed for an excursion to shops or restaurants . |
| 20 | ‘ Our work is being delayed simply through the lack of funding , ’ said Dr Klinowska . |
| 21 | As a wipeout specialist myself , I could see him being torn apart by the turbulence , I could feel his bursting lungs and taste the fear of blacking out . |
| 22 | The Tories are likely to have blood all over the walls , cabinet ministers being torn apart by the multitudes and so on . |
| 23 | Installation is fairly straightforward , the software being installed directly from the CD onto your hard disk . |
| 24 | Providing no amendments are carried , which looks likely , it will receive the Royal Assent without being considered again by the Commons . |
| 25 | In addition , more flexible , non legislative , measures for non-scheduled sites are being considered possibly in the form of a Code of Practice . |
| 26 | On the positive side , I feel fine physically and my spirits are being lifted immeasurably by the mail that 's beginning to pour in . |
| 27 | As sad as I am at being wrenched away from the telly , I am led to the bar . |
| 28 | It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire . |
| 29 | From Raymond Williams I learnt the political and moral consequences and obligations of being educated away from the life you were born into . |
| 30 | In 1931 the autocarrier with room for forty cars appeared , the vehicles being slung aboard from the quayside . |