Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first case , each text is given its own header , with any material common to all texts being factored out to an overall corpus header . |
| 2 | It 's only 18 months to two years since he was being bandied about as a possible England boss . |
| 3 | Ask a hundred people what their least favourite part of the Spectrum is and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of the keyboard being pointed out as a prime culprit . |
| 4 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 5 | So it can observe the animals illuminated by its red searchlight , while they swim in the dark , quite unaware that they are being eyed up as a potential meal . |
| 6 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 7 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
| 8 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 9 | BAe could end up with only 25 p.c. in the operation , which is being hived off into a new company , Corporate Jets . |
| 10 | Care must be taken to ensure that the new company , or its qualifying subsidiaries , carry on qualifying trades and , notably , film production companies and research and development companies qualify , so long as their activities are being carried on on a commercial basis with a view to profit . |
| 11 | Computer Science is a practical subject and , at Edinburgh , students are fortunate in having the opportunity to use systems ranging from single chip microprocessors to some of the world 's highest performance parallel processing systems , with much of their work being carried out on a distributed system of UNIX-based workstations . |
| 12 | My giddiness had gone and I felt happy and relaxed , as if I was being carried along on a slow , peaceful current . |
| 13 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
| 14 | This can result in buyers waiting months for the goods to arrive or being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 15 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 16 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |
| 17 | The massive £45-million building was planned when property prices in London seemed set to rise forever , but the scheme was still dependent on the top five floors being let out for an annual £6 million . |
| 18 | Therefore , the notion of being whirled around in a low-level steep bank , at maximum take-off weight , would surely have been viewed with scepticism by pilots and aircrew . |
| 19 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 20 | But again the songs ( whose content Comrade Wong resolutely translated for us in stage-whispers throughout ) harped on the great achievements of Mao , Chou and Hua , the last of whom seems to be being built up into a great leader matching his predecessors in stature . |
| 21 | Beaumont is upset that Jodami 's comfortable two lengths defeat of Rushing Wild is being written off as a sub-standard Gold Cup in some quarters . |
| 22 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
| 23 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 24 | Plans are being drawn up for a new production line that will provide additional capacity of 60,000 tubes per day at the factory currently making 317,000 tubes per day . |
| 25 | President Lansana Conte ( who on April 4 , 1990 , was given the rank of major-general by the CMRN ) said in his 1990 New Year address that the draft constitution being drawn up by a 50-member committee chaired by Foreign Minister Maj. Jean Traore would be submitted to the nation for discussion and amendment during 1990 ; a referendum on it would be held by the end of the year [ see also p. 37060 ] . |
| 26 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 27 | Dowty 's message to shareholders is being spelt out in a glossy brochure , the company 's answer to a hostile takeover bid from the Abingdon-based engineering firm TI . |
| 28 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 29 | After being talked down by a flying instructor last week , Mr Alan Anderson was said to be under sedation . |
| 30 | The plant is due to close next month as one of the solvents used in the process there , carbon tetrachloride , is being phased out under an international agreement to limit use of chemicals which damage the ozone layer . |