Example sentences of "[adv] being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste . |
| 2 | We are apparently being drawn to the end of time , to an apocalypse ( which will happen on 21/12/2012 ) at which point some of us will achieve a mystical transformation to a more enlightened realm of being . |
| 3 | Was enough being done about the vegetation ? |
| 4 | It is , therefore , a phase of male sexuality which is purportedly being portrayed with the result that female readers are frequently belittled and diminished as they read about girls who are at one and the same time both the object of male disgust and the arousers of male sexual interest . |
| 5 | A one-way system down Tubwell Row for buses only being fed from the south-west down Blackwellgate with a dropping off point at the top of Horsemarket . |
| 6 | On the table was part of an extensive collection of mammalia and birds , brought over by Mr Darwin , who accompanied the Beagle in its late surveying expedition in the capacity of Naturalist , and at his own expense , a free passage only being allowed by the Government . |
| 7 | We continued on our way and reached Coldstream Priory just after dark , only being admitted within the convent walls after a great deal of shouting and argument . |
| 8 | Professor Glennerster said that it was clear that the benefits won by GP fund holders were swiftly being transferred to the patients of other GPs , which is what we said would happen . |
| 9 | Faulkner 's local History mentions trout , pike , carp , roach , dace , perch , chub , barbel , smelt , flounder , shad , lamprey and eel all being caught in the river off Chelsea and also records nine salmon weighing 171½ lbs . |
| 10 | As the project will last for so many years , temporary improvements are constantly being made to the estate . |
| 11 | As in much self-conscious fiction , we are constantly being reminded of the fictionality of the novel , but Verbivore makes it clear that this fictionality also applies to the ‘ simulations ’ of the media which its ‘ fictions ’ purportedly replace . |
| 12 | Petty-bourgeois and peasant elements were constantly being drawn into the proletariat , bringing with them innumerable illusions . |
| 13 | The margin of the overriding plate is constantly being modified by the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath it ; volcanic material is added , sediments accumulate and the margin may be broken by strike-slip faults . |
| 14 | Their various facets are constantly being adapted in the light of changing circumstances and requirements . |
| 15 | It would be unwise to come to any firm conclusion , remembering that the majority of those we know about are amongst the sandhills which are constantly being eroded by the winds which expose them , that the eastern part of the island down to Kildalton is largely deer forest which is rarely visited except by stalkers , that there are probably many more cists to be discovered . |
| 16 | The nutter , in contrast , is constantly being caught by the police because part of being ‘ nutty ’ is absence of any real form of self-preservation . |
| 17 | From this steady stream of data , the number of television and radio broadcasts of every registered song , tune , or any other piece of music , is constantly being counted by the PRS . |
| 18 | She knew where the landing aircraft ought to be , her mental picture of the aerodrome traffic constantly being updated by the radio calls from other aircraft . |
| 19 | He had two persuasive arguments to support this : not only would the BEF 's line of communications to their bases in England be shortened , but the British troops , constantly being ferried across the Channel , could be concentrated in one area . |
| 20 | Her imagination was obviously being fed by the school and by the books . |
| 21 | Naturphilosophie was already being applied to the unity of type in the organic world by Lorenz Oken ( 1779–1851 ) and others . |
| 22 | Series 22 is already being planned for the autumn . |
| 23 | Based on SAP 's wide ranging R/2 management information and financial software for mainframes , R/3 is already being piloted in the UK and on the continent . |
| 24 | The event is already being advertised in the press and 90,000 tickets have gone on sale . |
| 25 | The club exists as a reinforcement for all the work already being done by the RFU youth development team , the counties , the rugby clubs and schools . |
| 26 | A lot of work is already being done by the village care group and good neighbours , but Mr. Noyce feels the need to emphasise this work with the help of committed Christians . |
| 27 | These last questions were already being raised in the heyday of Liberal Theology itself , as we shall find later in this chapter , and with devastating effect . |
| 28 | It will be interesting to see if the same thing will happen in Japan ; the Japanese manufacturers belief in the preference of the client for service over a cheaper product is already being tested in the marketplace — to their chagrin , according to contacts within the Japanese manufacturers . |
| 29 | Where private care is offered by private employment agencies , central control is already being exerted under the Employment Agencies Act but local authorities do need to monitor the performance of whatever scheme is being operated and ensure that gaps in provision are identified and filled . |
| 30 | She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows . |