Example sentences of "[noun pl] being [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Movement of the system thus results in a number of parallel images being produced for the second model at each event . |
| 2 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 3 | At the end of the season , three clubs would be relegated from the Premier Division , with only the championship winners being promoted from the First Division . |
| 4 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 5 | Some people may remember those words being splashed across the front page of the Sun on the eve of last April 's general election . |
| 6 | More than this , such transactions involve the production and movement of parts , for example gear-boxes from one country will be imported for cars being assembled in the same company 's factory in another country . |
| 7 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
| 8 | They did however eventually see World War Two service , initially with the 412th Fighter Group and its 29th , 31st and 445th Fighter Squadrons , all units being assigned to the 4th Air Force and stationed in the western United States . |
| 9 | West Germany was to be the poor relation , with all its military units being placed under the integrated command structure . |
| 10 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 11 | In particular , the Kitchen herbs are liable not to be used unless they are very close to hand for the cook ; in the rush of making up food amongst all the other demands being made at the same time , a trough or window-box of herbs on the Kitchen windowsill or just outside the backdoor will ensure that culinary herbs are used daily . |
| 12 | Leonard 's circumcision took place , in accordance with Jewish law , on the morning of the eighth day after his birth ; several prayers of blessings being recited before the actual ceremony , at which Nathan his father offered the solemn prayer : |
| 13 | To delineate the dimensions of the problems of effectively integrating system development teams within the software production process and to examine the solutions being sought by the commercial software company which is providing research access . |
| 14 | Pakistan manager Khalid Mahmood 's suggestion of ‘ home ’ umpires being selected by the visiting team may have some merit , but only as long as the visitors have sufficient knowledge of all those on the umpires ' panel — ED . |
| 15 | These and other factors led to world-wide steps being taken in the 1970s to reduce the discharge of all mercury compounds to the aquatic environment . |
| 16 | In 1971 , only 19.8% of the inhabitants of Wales could speak the Welsh language ( down from 27.5% in 1951 ) and only 1.7% of Scots could speak Gaelic , most of the Gaelic speakers being concentrated in the Scottish highlands and islands . |
| 17 | The PL discredited itself , however , by fielding 392 candidates , divided into different factions , with 89 separate candidate lists being presented for the lower house alone . |
| 18 | The tremendous increase in oil consumption which accompanied the great burst of accumulation threatened to deplete reserves : by the early seventies considerable disquiet was expressed about the possibility of the ‘ depletion horizon ’ of known reserves being reduced below the conventional level of 25 years ' supply . |
| 19 | The Bank noted that the increase in the member-to-member movements in November and December 1986 reflected additional transactions being made through the inter-dealer brokers . |
| 20 | Ministry of Defence approval was gained many years ago and as such PAS have supplied much needed parts to the RAF 's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight , all transactions being made with the relevant release documentation . |
| 21 | There is no system in England of precepts being levied by the Central Government upon local authorities by other bodies . |
| 22 | Korea had not just intensified the Cold War with , for example , analogies being drawn between the partitioned Korean peninsula and the divided nature of Germany ; it also placed an extra burden on American resources . |
| 23 | The ideal schedule is one which can be used by a team of interviewers and yield the same stimuli to informants with their responses being recorded in the same way . |
| 24 | The Doctor and Blake sat on the side of a hill watching the bones being carried from the archaeological dig to a large mechanical transporter . |
| 25 | The fact that few staff from polytechnics and colleges of higher education have enrolled on these programmes raises the difficult question of how to meet their training needs , and this is one of the matters being discussed by the Further Education Teachers ' Sub-Committee of ACSET . |
| 26 | Before the days of barbed wire and creosoted posts , all hedges were managed this way , any gaps being filled with the thorny prunings , known as dead hedge . ’ |
| 27 | The UDF claimed that the BCP was refusing to give the round table a valid role in political decision-making , including discussion of bills being submitted to the National Assembly . |
| 28 | The Commerce Minister P. Chidambaram resigned on July 9 after admitting that he and his wife had invested Rs250,000 ( about US$8,700 ) in Fairgrowth Financial Services , one of the companies being investigated in the recent securities scandal [ see pp. 38913 ; 38967 ] . |
| 29 | The octamer motif in HP 16/18 is therefore able to mediate the inhibition of gene expression by Oct-1 and can confer a tissue specific pattern of activity on a heterologous promoter with neither of these effects being observed with the corresponding motif in HPV 6/11 . |
| 30 | Loyalty to the old King did nothing to establish Drummonds with his heir — and indeed the story has it that curbing the Prince 's spending on the orders of the King led to Drummonds being abandoned by the new monarch in favour of Coutts . |