Example sentences of "[noun pl] [being] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also a reduction in the number of elderly bus passenger casualties which may have resulted in a fall in the number of trips being made following the introduction of fares for concessionary travel . |
| 2 | He followed the bomber down until it dived into the sea off Filfla , three survivors being seen in the water . |
| 3 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
| 4 | The court found , by a narrow margin of seven votes to six , that Papandreou was not the " moral instigator " of the scandal of public funds being directed into the Bank of Crete . |
| 5 | Without the help of the S.D.S. the project seems doomed as the Region are unwilling to help and few of the local people would consent to council funds being used for the setting up of a permanent site or the renting of a plot of land as a short-term site until a permanent site can be found away from the town . |
| 6 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 7 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 8 | Have you heard any of these words being used for the side of things by the , the tinkers ? |
| 9 | Yet the interest lies in seeing the distinction between direct and precatory words being used as a test . |
| 10 | In certain species this can be shut tight as a further protection , with the head and legs being drawn behind the barrier . |
| 11 | And , speaking just hours before the Budget , he warned that confusion in the signals being given by the Chancellor in his handling of economic policy would damage the ‘ fragile confidence ’ now emerging . |
| 12 | In a given situation , more than one of these may be used — for example , fax signals being passed along a telephone line or telephone messages being sent using radio techniques as in a car telephone , cordless telephone or ship-to-shore link . |
| 13 | This signal can be compared to the signals being produced by the phase sequence generator as a check that the motor is operating correctly . |
| 14 | The demands being made on the child must be appropriate to his/her level of cognitive development/literacy difficulties . |
| 15 | The Countryside Commission 's Digest of Countryside Recreation Statistics charts many of these changes and offers a glimpse of the increasing demands being made on the countryside . |
| 16 | When negotiating on behalf of the management the warranties being requested by the investor , a compromise that gives the investor the comfort it requires , without undue pressure on the management , is to be sought ; the management and the investor will have a continuing relationship following completion of the transaction . |
| 17 | Firstly , I object to the bite-sized , stick-on solutions being peddled by the Committee . |
| 18 | When viewed in this light it should not be surprising that the loudest , most powerful voices being heard in the name of animal welfare — at least in the United States — are those who have a vested interest in the perpetuation of animal exploitation . |
| 19 | This may lead to huge bonuses being paid to the manager . |
| 20 | This alarming statistic led Qamar Ali Mirza , president of the Pakistan Mountaineering Association , to make a moving plea at a conference of Greater Ranges nations being held at the time in Kathmandu : ‘ Please give a respite to these big mountains . |
| 21 | According to the ‘ tree ’ scheme of ref. 20 , all scattered waves in a multiple scattering ‘ tree ’ starting at atom α shown in Fig. 1 a can be summed as β being an atom positioned near atom α and multiple ( 2 ) scattered waves being included in the term ‘ + … ’ . |
| 22 | Assistant county trading standards officer Ed Chicken yesterday told Bedale magistrates that animal health inspectors spotted Taylor 's animals being weighed at the mart . |
| 23 | Assistant county trading standards officer Ed Chicken yesterday told Bedale magistrates that animal health inspectors spotted Taylor 's animals being weighed at the mart . |
| 24 | Regrettably , most other television programmes , notably ‘ fly on the wall ’ documentaries from Yorkshire Television and Central have sought to expose the inadequate conditions in which many mentally handicapped people live , especially in long stay hospitals , rather than discuss the progressive steps being made in the care of the mentally handicapped in Britain today . |
| 25 | Despite the equal opportunities policies of major broadcasters , there are no effective steps being taken by the industry to remedy this situation , nor possibly any significant recognition of a need to do so . |
| 26 | This tends to lead to extremely lengthy and detailed questionnaires being sent by the offeror to the target company and at regular intervals to learn any relevant information . |
| 27 | Either the Government performs a climbdown of epic humiliation scale or it publishes and risks being damned in the division lobbies . |
| 28 | I have seen away supporters being chased up the road into Pleck Park and but erm I think basically a lot of the trouble used to be caused by drink and now they do n't have any drink in the ground they er they , they seem to have cracked that one . |
| 29 | Care was taken to make building surveying curricula more apposite to the work of the candidate , the technological aspects being increased at the expense of law and economics . |
| 30 | One has , for example , cottage rows being erected at Winchester apparently by individuals , and shops being built by the city corporation at Exeter and by the abbey at Tewkesbury ( 90 , pp.67–8 ) . |