Example sentences of "[noun sg] [being] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 2 | The raindrops against the window sounded like a handful of gravel being hurled at the glass by the strong wind . |
| 3 | Many players automatically roll the wrists at the start of the backswing , with the club being laid at the top as a result . |
| 4 | This relatively low figure no doubt results from the programme being broadcast at a time that is inconvenient to many viewers . |
| 5 | Note that the butt joint is not cut vertical since this would result in only one piece being cut at an angle , this preventing a proper match . |
| 6 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 7 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 8 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 9 | Their new range being launched at the show , ‘ Super Waverley Velvet ’ was joint winner of Category 2 ‘ Plain carpets in heavyweight quality ’ . |
| 10 | Generally speaking , however , in normal flight the wing ( or coupled wings ) moves in a path such that a point on its surface describes an irregular loop or an elongate figure-of-eight with respect to the wing-base , the long axis of the plane of vibration being inclined at an angle to the long axis of the insect ( Fig. 38 ) while the angle at which the surface of the wing is held changes throughout the cycle . |
| 11 | Le Bugue is a place you 've probably never heard of before now : it 's in France , and they 're having a 16ft wide 6ft tall ramp along with a 12ft wide 4ft tall mini being constructed at a Summer Camp , along with some street ramps and handrails . |
| 12 | Inefficiency of this sort , which involves a given level of output being produced at a cost which is higher than the theoretical minimum , is termed X-inefficiency . |
| 13 | The zone control valve was mounted on a horizontal range pipe so that the drop pipe from it passed vertically through three levels , an open-sprinkler being mounted at the head of each level . |
| 14 | Beinn Alligin is the third of the great Torridon giants and more amenable than its fellows , and more honest , the whole effort of climbing to the summit ridge , traversing it and descending at the far end to return down the corrie being assessed at a glance , although probably under-estimated . |
| 15 | The shifts of responsibility are sufficient to justify the claim that the education service being managed at the end of the twentieth century is different from that which was characterized by teacher-based choice , classroom autonomy , voluntary consensus and a supposedly new liberalism forty years earlier . |
| 16 | The arrangements for the service were made by the Rotary Club of Arcadia , the service being held at the graveside of the British Plot in Oak Ridge Cemetery . |
| 17 | Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading |
| 18 | Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading |
| 19 | The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] … |
| 20 | DELEGATES at this year 's CIU Annual Conference at Blackpool will have a chance to visit the first Beer and Trades Exhibition being staged at the Sandcastle Exhibition Centre on the South Promenade . |
| 21 | Regular exhibitions of members ' work are organised by the society , the annual exhibition being held at the City Art Gallery . |
| 22 | However , the Ministry of Agriculture reported a similar level of ruthenium in a soil sample taken in 1987 , apparently without any comment being raised at the time . |
| 23 | An Indian woman being torched at a bus-stop . |
| 24 | A series of contacts with the CNAA from 1965 produced the controversies over the attempt to introduce full-time courses in various disciplines , and to combine them with sandwich courses , with Brighton 's first full-time courses in engineering being approved at the end of that year . |
| 25 | However there are no signs of a foreign policy debate being forced at the moment and one rather doubts there will be unless something dramatic happens so one might say the assassin failed … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 27 | Silent K(n)ite being held at the edge of the wind window , displays its Rogallo form . |
| 28 | This effectively disallows any subject being discussed at an Apex conference . |
| 29 | Secondly , the third-floor accommodation , lit only by the small clerestory windows of the nave ( composed of shallower paired lancets ) , managed to obtain the necessary amount of daylight from the glazing being placed at the rear of the original traceried stonework where the splayed internal window-revels generate an area exposed to daylight which is larger than the window area seen from outside ( Fig 46 ) . |
| 30 | He never dreamt that we would go to witness the execution or , even if we did , would get close enough to realise the man being burnt at the stake was not the same person we 'd questioned at Newgate . |