Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 4 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 5 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 8 | In 1990 it will be extended to cover all SCOTVEC certification with the exception of the old system of HNCs and HNDs which are being phased out over the next few years . |
| 9 | She remembered also , the hand of one of the drowning men , rising up out of the torrent and clutching , clutching at empty air before being dragged under for the last time . |
| 10 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 11 | The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series . |
| 12 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 13 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 14 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 15 | Indeed , neither team was to prove a serious contender for the title with Jay Sigel , who played in the singles match against Jim Milligan , going the furthest — being knocked out at the 19th in the quarter-finals . |
| 16 | But after being knocked out in the first round of the English Derby the dog injured a hind muscle and was out of action for a long time . |
| 17 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 18 | If McHale reverts to a 4–2–4 system Thompson will push on the right flank with Mark Ash recalled to right-back after being left out for the last three games . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 21 | But falling pupil numbers at Soudley Primary School could lead to it being shut down within the next few years . |