Example sentences of "[noun sg] being [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of a fringing reef and a barrier reef on an island would seem to be best explained by glacial control , the barrier reef being formed with the Post-glacial rise of sea level and the fringing reef by the more stable modern sea level . |
| 2 | There is a problem here with the eyes , with the musician being chained to the printed page in front of him . |
| 3 | The prospect of a civilisation being overturned by an allowed evil getting control is a real fear for Spenser . |
| 4 | If the Policyholder can show that the permanent address of the son or daughter is the policyholder 's address , then subject to the loss/damage being caused by an insured peril , it is in order for the claim to be dealt with , being property temporarily away from the home . |
| 5 | A STUDY being undertaken by the Welsh Office , Dyfed County Council and Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion into trunk roads in the Aberystwyth area will be the subject of a public exhibition at Aberystwyth for three days from July 8 . |
| 6 | Suddenly she heard the familiar sound of the key being turned in the front door Alison came in . |
| 7 | Their affair could be described either as ‘ passionately discreet ’ or as ‘ discreetly passionate ’ , the relative anonymity of Wenlock Manor being preferred to the sodium-lit splendour of the Grand Hotel . |
| 8 | A mass demonstration being organised by the Scottish TUC will go ahead on Saturday , as planned . |
| 9 | Most would like to see the auditor 's period away from the audit in question extended from the proposed two years ( which , as Touche Ross says , ‘ could lead to this guidance being perceived as a cosmetic exercise' ) , but can not agree over how long . |
| 10 | I have seen some battles , heard of many , but never of the first news of a defeat being brought by the General Officers before ! ’ |
| 11 | Inset : An air diver being deployed in a diving basket . |
| 12 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 13 | The alert from police came after the latest smash and grab raid on a car being driven by a lone woman in Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 15 | There is another kind of experiment being performed at the electron-positron storage rings at DESY , the German particle-physics laboratory in Hamburg . |
| 16 | I 'm built for action , and it seemed a raw deal being dumped in a desolate corner of London with the kind of instructions you 'd give an old man on retirement . |
| 17 | These allied to an apprehension of the uselessness of qualifications anyway — blackness being seen as the immovable obstacle to career progress — produce a situation in which black kids are receptive to alternatives , to different life plans . |
| 18 | The RSDLP should be reorganized as a federal party , with the Bund being recognized as the sole representative of Jewish workers and the party programme promising ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ ( that is , all Jewish workers , regardless of where they lived in the empire , would be members of a national Jewish association , responsible for all Jewish educational and cultural affairs ) . |
| 19 | The channel address must have a numeric value between 1 and 8 with the output pulse width being defined by the decimal value ( × 10µS ) of the following two hex characters . |
| 20 | Gorbachev was elected President of the USSR by a secret ballot of Congress deputies on the evening of March 14 , the result being announced on the following morning . |
| 21 | However , in extreme cases it may be necessary to hold the client face down , a degree of weight being applied to the upper back . |
| 22 | The Table also shows that cutting usually involves the wrist or forearm , which has resulted in wrist-cutting being treated as a distinct syndrome ( Rosenthal et al. 1972 ) . |
| 23 | DAVID EVANS , director of Reactor Division , is to take over a new post as director of Reactor Technology , working on BNFL 's input into the Reactor Study Programme being co-ordinated by the Nuclear Utilities Chairmen 's Group for the 1994 Industry Review . |
| 24 | the sub-contracting of local acquisition search requirement to the participating member , as part of a larger international acquisition search engagement being conducted by the initiating member on behalf of a client in his country ( in these circumstance , the participating member will usually take his instructions from the initiating member ) ; and |
| 25 | To do otherwise , would be to sit back and watch the raison d'etre of conglomeration being reversed by a misplaced process of reregulation ; that would be to give with one hand , and take with the other . |
| 26 | Within minutes she and Nina were in the ambulance being driven across the vast factory to the section where the accident had taken place . |
| 27 | The coffin of the Fourth Earl De La Warr ( d.1795 ) ( Col. 13 ) was padded with shoddy prior to the fitting of the velvet , shoddy and velvet being gimped to the chamfered base of the sides , with the coffin base itself shamfered along the edge . |
| 28 | They want the statue to be resited in the national conservation HQ being created at the old Midland Goods Depot . |
| 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 | This technique is also open-loop in nature , with the position of maximum overshoot from the initial half-step being determined by a fixed period timer . |