Example sentences of "[noun sg] [being] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yesterday Taoiseach Albert Reynolds did not rule out the possibility of the contest being held in the province , but 24 hours later RTE chief John Sorohan said Dublin would be the most likely venue . |
| 2 | ‘ Of the Godfather of All ? ’ whispered Yeremi , haunted by the memory of Yakobi being forced towards the heat sink . |
| 3 | The simplest form of microscope is the convex lens , the magnifying effect being caused by the curvature of the lens . |
| 4 | One popular nineteenth century patterning was ‘ tree calf ’ , a delicate arboreal effect being produced by the interaction of chemicals . |
| 5 | In our special reports this week we 've heard complaints of under-investment in railways , over-reliance on road building , and of harm being done to the environment . |
| 6 | Peace talks were set to resume in Caracas , Venezuela , on Aug. 26 between the government and the Simon Bolivar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) , which had announced on Aug. 1 that it would suspend attacks on the country 's economic infrastructure , especially electricity pylons and oil pipelines , because of " the harm being done to the poverty stricken communities of the country " . |
| 7 | Does the Chancellor appreciate the harm being done to the economy by the 20 per cent . |
| 8 | We will consider further introduction of video recordings of all interviews in police custody when the outcome of a joint study being conducted by the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Home Office has been fully considered . |
| 9 | Carrie was eager to tell her mother how business was picking up at the dining rooms but she was interrupted by footsteps on the stairs outside and a key being inserted in the lock . |
| 10 | A case could be made for such a ritual being enshrined in the legend of Lady Godiva of Coventry , riding through the city on a white horse ( fig. 13.1 ) , though this idea has been dismissed by Hilda Ellis Davison in her otherwise full and admirable account of the legend . |
| 11 | Other transfers also took place with Stock Accounting being transferred to the Management Accounting Section . |
| 12 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 13 | Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action . |
| 14 | There was a long debate on the question of a sixth boxer being selected following the recommendation for five by the National Coaching Committee . |
| 15 | If we project that against total revenues expected in that year , it amounts to about one single day of revenue being allocated to the budget to implement the safety regime in the North sea . |
| 16 | Thickness and elasticity of the skin , the area of sponge-like tissue within , and the volume of blood being pumped into the organ will determine its erect dimensions . |
| 17 | An erection is caused by blood being pumped into the penis in response to sexual arousal . |
| 18 | The ECG also monitors the amount of blood being pumped around the body — crucial in major surgery where blood loss and supply have to be carefully balanced . |
| 19 | No matter what great advances have been made in the last 12–18 months , there is still an awful lot of blood being shed in the country . |
| 20 | ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . ) |
| 21 | Which is still substantially higher than the national figure , and substantially higher than the figure being proposed by the Department of the Environment for North Yorkshire . |
| 22 | The ‘ F1 ’ road car being developed by the World Champion racing team , due to be revealed next month , promises to overtake the super-Jag in speed and price . |
| 23 | Police are appealing for anyone who was near the service station at 9.15pm on Saturday or anyone who saw the gold-coloured car being abandoned in the school grounds to contact them at North Ormesby CID on Middlesbrough 301835 . |
| 24 | Mr Hurkett said : ‘ I ran to them and saw the car being driven down the road . |
| 25 | Similar results have been reported from other studies using filmed events in the same way , with arousal being manipulated by the violence of the incident depicted in the film ( Clifford & Hollin , 1981 ; Clifford & Scott , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 27 | Suddenly the camera picks out a rounded tongue of hot lava being extruded from the flow front ; there is a brief flash of red , almost immediately extinguished , and a new pillow has been created . |
| 28 | For example , water has a generally low reflectance in the visible spectrum , the proportion of reflected light being related to the presence and amount of suspended sediment and dissolved organic material . |
| 29 | The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up . |
| 30 | The raindrops against the window sounded like a handful of gravel being hurled at the glass by the strong wind . |