Example sentences of "[noun sg] being [vb pp] in [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These 2 men are the guinea pigs in a unique experiment being held in the Harwell labs in Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | These 2 men are the guinea pigs in a unique experiment being held in the Harwell labs in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | Christopher Frayling , the RCA 's Professor of Humanities , with responsibility for several courses including the college 's new Visual Arts Administration programme being launched in the autumn , was one of three short-listed candidates . |
| 9 | Sometimes , the seller 's solicitors will accept a condition being inserted in the contract , which makes the contract conditional upon a successful planning application . |
| 10 | It is very easy when doing structure drills to be merely repeating like a parrot without one 's mind being engaged in the exercise . |
| 11 | You got all kinds of crap being dumped in a place like this . |
| 12 | These include issues such as the morality of the Gospel being seen in a consumer context , and the Church spending its funds in this way . |
| 13 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 14 | Winter-lets can be one possible cause of homelessness , although the reasons for occupants being in seasonal accommodation in the first place are very difficult to evaluate , and only now is the law being clarified in the courts . |
| 15 | I refer to the lively campaign being waged in the United States which is affecting many of their best-known golf clubs . |
| 16 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 17 | Lawrence and Santry ( 1989 ) report on the work being done in a division of the Department of Trade and Industry and indicate the techniques used . |
| 18 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 19 | As has been said in the House previously , my hon. Friend will know that we are committed to the work being done in the south Atlantic , which HMS Polar Circle will shortly be carrying out . |
| 20 | Contact with western scholars increased , as did knowledge of the work being done in the West . |
| 21 | The survey design will take account of work being conducted in the United States as the basis for a comparative evaluation of British and American experiences . |
| 22 | ‘ The poor little mite ! ’ he exclaimed , as he might had he seen another man 's child being mistreated in the street . |
| 23 | These ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painters , as the critic David Sylvester dubbed them in 1954 , owing to their preference for painting not tasteful still lifes but the debris left on the kitchen table or the image of a child being bathed in a sink , enjoyed overnight success . |
| 24 | Economic history/development over the last two hundred years has resulted in 90 per cent of the world 's manufacturing capacity being situated in the North , thus enabling it to control world trade , investment and financial resources . |
| 25 | If this area is not available an alternative pavilion is specially set apart to the south or north of the temple , the stone or wood being placed in the centre of this structure and worshipped with flowers and various other offerings . |
| 26 | In the autumn of 1330 Mortimer got wind of a plot being hatched in the king 's immediate circle and he interrogated Montague and others . |
| 27 | Don do n't forget as well colleagues the Euro-Fair evening when you can meet the new European Officer for the union that 's er commencing immediately after this session being held in the Lord Mayor 's Banqueting Hall , guest speakers include Steven Linden Alison and Barry . |
| 28 | More importantly , the ending escapes the cliché in countless films of a marriage being halted in the nick of time although it most resembles the climax of a 1928 Harold Lloyd comedy , Speedy . |
| 29 | One reads of 170 feet of debris being deposited in an hour as the result of a cloud-burst . |
| 30 | Question 16 is simply a logical device to prevent an endless loop being formed in the network . |