Example sentences of "[being] use [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His report is being used as the basic plan for ULAB . |
| 2 | Here they are being used as the main character in a popular advert . |
| 3 | The Playhouse , in Derry , is being used as the main stage for the performances each night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both methods are currently being used at the Nuclear Structure Facility ( NSF ) at the Daresbury Laboratory near Warrington . |
| 6 | It was the kind of notepaper being used at the Zoological Society at the time , and completely unlike anything ever used by Darwin . |
| 7 | demisters , di demisters , windscreen wipers and washers , keep windscreens , windows , lights , direction heaters , reflectors and mirrors and number plates clean and clear , do not drive with the defect upon suitable exhaust system , if L plates have been fitted , remove or covering , when the vehicle is not being used with the driving instruction or practice . |
| 8 | On the Cambrian lines , a basic diet of 156 's and 155's was promised with some 153 's being used on the Cambrian Coast line services . |
| 9 | With the risk of a product being used on the wrong surface or half-full containers being topped up with incompatible chemicals . |
| 10 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 11 | The British Government have a special responsibility in this matter , because British manufacture cluster bombs are being used by the Yugoslav air force , which is de facto a Serbian air force , to attack civilian targets . |
| 12 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 13 | Not so much the opposition — what shook me up was to see children being used in the front line by protestors . |
| 14 | All of these sources of evidence are currently being used in the interior restoration of Duff House , near Banff . |
| 15 | It is being used in the acute phase of a tendon injury and it seems to reduce inflammation and reduce the detrimental effects of swelling after an injury . |
| 16 | Other verbs which could involve agency are deprived of their active meaning by being used in the passive participle form : abandoned , anchored ( 55 ) ; whereas stative verbs are quite frequent : resembling , looked , lie , shone , marked , etc ( 22 ) . |
| 17 | That we do n't know too much about , but the assertion that one or two people have made is that his music was being used in the subliminal message under the music technique . |
| 18 | Nicholas pretended that Hungarian forces were being used in the Polish interest : " both Austrians and Russians skilfully manoeuvred with the assertion that the Hungarian Revolution was not a Hungarian national movement , but a Polish plot against the Russian State " . |