Example sentences of "being [verb] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision , and its reasoning , is still being relied on in the growing number of tax-diversion cases that are currently coming before the inferior courts in England and Scotland , and it has most recently been affirmed as decisive by the High Court once more , in Boulton v. |
| 2 | If the record is not on the centre track the first or last track will be searched , depending on a comparison of the key being looked for with the highest key on the track . |
| 3 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 4 | With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time . |
| 5 | James Wood , Director of the Art Institute of Chicago , conveyed a suspicion held by most high-level museum administrators : ‘ I would assume that these exhibitions have been tailored more as events than as the kind of exhibitions that are being sought after by the major museums ’ . |
| 6 | Now the area was being done up by the young middle class , he stubbornly refused to paint his house and remained firmly working class to the extent of asking the Council to bring back his outside toilet . |
| 7 | And that is being done outside of the statutory services and outside of the voluntary sector . |
| 8 | This motif was used on the air every day and we rang all possible changes on the ‘ we 're being done in by the big bogey-man ’ theme , so much so that we had some of our faithful old lady listeners actually in tears . |
| 9 | While attempting to respond to the civil rights movement and to the pressure from the Wilson government in London , O'Neill was being threatened from within the Unionist camp . |
| 10 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 11 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 12 | You 're not being talked to by the mainstream now , but by us who you grew up with . |
| 13 | Somehow working with a young cast in Dublin has brought out the best in Parker as a director to create the film that is already being talked about as the best rock movie in years . |
| 14 | Just two years ago , the MP for Henley was being talked of as the next Prime Minister . |
| 15 | I suspect they were being cared for under the Central Methodist hall . |
| 16 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 17 | The sun had pierced through the mist , and they were not believing their good luck at being alive , and being cared for by the beautiful colleens . |
| 18 | By the end of November over 5,000 people were estimated to have left Haiti , of whom some 3,500 were being held aboard United States vessels or at US bases , and over 1,000 were being cared for by the Cuban authorities . |
| 19 | Although the Department of the Environment has said that other developed countries in Europe , including Italy , should be able to dispose of their own waste , the consignments are being dealt with by the municipal toxic waste department in Manchester . |
| 20 | Will the vast sums of money which are being asked for by the Governing Bodies of Sport mean that they will price themselves out of the market or will television continue to pay as they compete for audiences ? |
| 21 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 22 | The cost of the clinical consequences of their research is currently met by central funding , their research itself being paid for by the Medical Research Council , charities , and the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 23 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 24 | If however it is felt that some of our members are n't being catered for at the present time please let the group organisers know so that , if possible , adjustments may be made . |