Example sentences of "[noun sg] [being] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LAST week we protested about the 25-day Christmas break being taken by Members of Parliament . |
| 2 | Records of Achievement will not be issued for success in areas of study being taken as part of the certificate programme except in exceptional cases . |
| 3 | Records of Achievement will not be issued for success in areas of study being taken as part of the Diploma Programme except in exceptional circumstances . |
| 4 | In fact , there is a real example of depreciation accounting being practised alongside payments in lieu of depreciation . |
| 5 | This was and is a strong motivator for most IBMers , though no one ever discerned an IBMer 's workload being reduced by 10% as a result . |
| 6 | Steve Hagger , a director , says the mounting list of creditors can be blamed on the fact Brandmakers was victim of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession . |
| 7 | Lord , you are the source of peace ; we cry to You for peace in our world ; daily we see and hear of strife within nations , of tensions between states , of violence being done by men against men ; we are sad Lord , and know that You are sad too . |
| 8 | The definitions contained in this dictionary are voluminous descriptions of the etymology of the words , the dictionary being designed for people with a deep interest in the English language . |
| 9 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 10 | Kildare , sixteen miles east of Dublin is the home for the latest Irish steam centre The Steam Museum to be opened in Ireland with the formal opening ceremony being formed by President of Ireland Her Excellency Mrs Mary Robinson . |
| 11 | A good example of a swift corrective action being put in place with people from a variety of functions co-ordinating rapidly to help a customer solve his problem . |
| 12 | When you see a crime being committed in front of your eyes , what do you say ? |
| 13 | Bryce Echenique s A World for Julius , for example , captures the peculiarly honeyed speech of Lima 's upper classes to mirror the pampered , insulated existence of the Peruvian oligarchy , Similarly , in Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , a picture of pre-revolutionary Cuban society is conveyed on a linguistic level , through the reproduction of the type of language spoken in Havana at the time , the country 's dependent status and cultural inferiority complex being reflected in self-consciousness about speaking Cuban , in the aping of cultured Spanish and in the widespread use of Spanglish . |
| 14 | This has resulted in different messages about the same issue being given to clients of the health services , e.g. ORS : in Kangwane Banstustan they teach mothers to use one litre of water , six teaspoons of sugar and one teaspoon of salt to prepare the Oral Rehydration Solution ( ORS ) whilst their neighbours , Gazankulu and Lebowa have different methods . |
| 15 | There were a few others of the same period , Youngs Mill being advertised for sale in 1828 , with a 16hp engine , driving three pairs of four foot diameter stones . |
| 16 | Lee 's proposed opening for the movie , based on a script written by James Baldwin , is an American flag being licked with flames behind a credit sequence until it forms the title X . |
| 17 | I can hear the ski lifts creaking in the wind and the sound of sand being dragged in gusts over the parked cars . |
| 18 | The conflict over housing land has been on the edge of the conurbation with a still undecided battle being fought over suburbanization by addition on a site-by-site basis . |
| 19 | The 7th Army withdrew under an agreement negotiated between Russia and Armenia , and the 4th Army Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) troops in Azerbaijan were also being withdrawn , but there were accusations of their equipment being stolen for use by Azerbaijan in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict . |
| 20 | There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees . |
| 21 | There are accounts of dogs of Mastiff type being exported from Britain to Rome through an agent known as the Procurator Pugnacium ( provider of dogs ) . |
| 22 | I have also seen the excellent work being done on prevention in schools and with young people to get across the message , which must be repeated year after year as children come into the consuming group , about the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 23 | Ginsberg 's framework , which was in accord with the spirit of work being done by Hobson in economics , Tawney in economic history , and Laski in political science , seems equally applicable to the functionalist style of Robson , Jennings , and Willis . |
| 24 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 25 | In addition , the Six noted ‘ that there is a divergence of views on what should be done in the event of a failure to reach complete agreement ’ , but that ‘ this divergence does not prevent the Community 's work being resumed in accordance with the normal procedure ’ . |
| 26 | He reached the town and entered the Lawnmarket ; there was a crowd gathered watching some wretch being dragged by horses across the open space to a waiting scaffold . |
| 27 | It is 1900 hours when the peace of the evening is broken by the cough of the Challenger engine being fired into life by its starter motors , soon followed by the roar of the twenty-six-litre engine and the scream of the twin turbos . |
| 28 | To embark for the islands they will need Namibian permission to pass through a restricted coastal diamond area , risking being shot on sight for straying from the road ! |
| 29 | If they pursue a rigid analytical approach then it is likely to result in many , if not all , of the constituent elements which comprise the ‘ if X ’ question being labelled as questions of law . |
| 30 | A recognition of the prominence being given to psalmody outside Morning and Evening Prayer has led to the provision of simpler substitutes for Anglican chant . |