Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
2 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
3 | He 's being treated for a punctured lung at the town 's general hospital . |
4 | But with a date of construction for the wall extending well into the fourth century , and a date now being assigned for the general run of external towers somewhat earlier than that previously postulated in the Theodosian reconstruction of British towns and cities , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that both may be contemporary . |
5 | You should therefore make as much effort as you would if you were being interviewed for a particular job . |
6 | The technical field being considered for the full proposal is inertial navigation technology . |
7 | The severe drought of the past three years is being blamed for a big increase in the number of houses suffering from subsidence . |
8 | Elsewhere , his fierce determination not to get out led to a suspicion of selfishness , and , in 1965 , to his being dropped for the funereal pace of his Edgbaston century against New Zealand . |
9 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
10 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
11 | The formal agreement of a number of vendors is still being sought for the planned Unix Common Desktop Environment , CDE . |
12 | ENTRIES from the North-East are being sought for the Royal Mail 's twin town award scheme , which aims to find the best link between a British community and a foreign counterpart . |
13 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
14 | Putting on successively larger weights increases the extension and the " modulus ' is measured from the graphical plot of load against extension , corrections being made for the cross-sectional area and for the original length . |
15 | Arrangements are being made for the annual dinner for the institute which is at the Stanwick Arms , in Aldbrough St John on April 29 . |
16 | From the window of his room the Collector watched the final preparations being made for the hazardous withdrawal from his original " mud walls " to the new fortifications . |
17 | Good performances in the British under 20 water polo trials at Sheffield have results in Paul Floyd and Lee Cooke ( Middlesbrough ) being selected for the 16-strong squad from which the 13 players will be selected for the four-nations tournament in Belgium on May 1–3 . |
18 | DUNCAN McTier , the first exponent of Peter Maxwell Davies 's new Concerto for Double-bass and Chamber Orchestra ( the seventh of the Strathclyde sequence being written for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra ) , coaxes the most prodigiously colourful , rounded and singing sound from his unwieldy instrument . |
19 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
20 | But getting into RADA was quite a searching process and I remember doing four one-hour work sessions with some of the tutors there , including the Principal , before finally being accepted for the three-year course there . |
21 | The guardian ad litem prepared a report in which she recommended that the children live with their father and , in the body of the report , stated that for the local authority to carry out an assessment of the father at the same time as the children were being prepared for a long-term placement did not ‘ enable an open and honest working relationship . ’ |
22 | The snotty-nosed chamberlain tapped his wand on the floor and we were led along marble corridors , through chambers being prepared for the great banquet , past nobles draped in velvet and cloth of gold , retainers in blue , violet and scarlet liveries , all chatting merrily in French . |
23 | He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together . |
24 | As an added incentive , two complimentary tickets for the evening 's disco are being offered for the winning entry . |
25 | Colchester , UK : Packs jointly developed by Betts Plastics , part of Courtaulds Aerospace , with The Robert McBride Group are being used for a new range of shower gels ( below ) sold by the Superdrug retail chain . |
26 | The building was in fact being used for a small-scale version of the oxide reprocessing planned for the THORP complex : it has been sealed and closed ever since . |
27 | In addition to its obvious implications for the prison numbers crisis , such a strategy again raises the spectre of an incapacitatory penalty being used for a certain group of offenders on the basis of their anticipated dangerousness in the future . |
28 | There are instances in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the courts have , despite such subjective wording , overturned decisions by finding that the power was being used for an improper purpose , or that the public body had applied the wrong test when construing legislative criteria . |
29 | Police , who kept the crowd away from the entrance being used for the day-long meeting run by the James Connolly Association , said the demonstration passed peacefully . |
30 | Unfairly , cast as one of the scapegoats for the islands ' World Cup failure , he readily concedes that his disappointment at being ditched for the inaugural meeting between West Indies and South Africa was acute . |