Example sentences of "being [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bout of ‘ insanity ’ led to his being placed in a padded cell . |
| 2 | Ivor Stokle , 34 , a quantity surveyor , told a hushed Bristol Crown Court how he and his girlfriend , Mrs Pauline Leyshon , 43 , were kidnapped at knifepoint from a bungalow , beaten and bound before being placed in a blazing car which was pushed off a hillside . |
| 3 | In this case the mother submitted to the judge that to order the removal of the child from the United Kingdom back to Canada would expose him to a grave risk of being placed in an intolerable situation . |
| 4 | At the same time schools are being placed in the front line of accountability by the proposal to give headteachers and governors direct control of budgets and the opportunity to opt out of LEA control . |
| 5 | In a cumbersome way it seems to have done this fairly effectively , for it was difficult for an official to embezzle royal money without being exposed in the long run , although the run was often so long that he was dead before it finished . |
| 6 | He would not , of course , be alone in being exposed in the General Prologue and enhancing the adverse view of himself by his own Prologue — consider , for instance , the Pardoner — but he would be alone in then telling a tale which clinches the destruction of any claim to a good character he might have ; a tale without any redeeming features , which the tales of even the worst of the corrupt clerics , the Friar and the Pardoner , have . |
| 7 | The French government was being criticized in the French media for its traditionally paternalistic relationship with former colonies , with the implication that it was content to support repressive African regimes . |
| 8 | For a new and welcome sound is being heard in the little Fermanagh community on the eastern shore of lovely Lough Melvin , the jewel in its many splendoured crown . |
| 9 | There is , however , some American authority which suggests that if this case were being heard in the American courts the answer would be likely to be in favour of granting a declaration in these circumstances : see In re A.C. ( 1990 ) 573 A.2d 1235 , 1240 , 1246–1248 , 1252 . |
| 10 | It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines . |
| 11 | The new constitution of the Labour Party made it possible in 1918 for members to join local labour parties without being enrolled in an affiliated organization . |
| 12 | I hope that the Minister will be able to tell us at whose discretion all the information is passed on — mainly with a view to protecting the officer concerned , if any risk is posed to him , but also with a view to protecting the individual from being treated in a different way by that officer . |
| 13 | The injured boy is being treated in the spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 16 | Just as the 2lst century requires a more diffused and safer balance of interest in what needs to be an increasingly multilateral global village , there is a risk of economic , institutional and political power being centralised in the European Community , and that a new bout of economic empire-building may occur . |
| 17 | Andras Hegedus , the Hungarian social scientist and former prime minister , has written of the campaign against bureaucracy being waged in the socialist countries , a campaign which is largely unaware of the root cause of bureaucratism — the separation of administration from the ‘ ultimate guarantor of power , i.e. society ’ , and the lack of social control . |
| 18 | Move to the Left , encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding that , ready-mixed concrete does have the great advantage of being consistently mixed , can have a waterproofing compound added to it before you get it , and saves the mixing time ( which can mean the difference between the pool being completed in a single day and taking two or three ) . |
| 20 | It also reflects the bold decision taken by my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) to cut corporation tax and liberate a range of resources for investments which companies would choose for themselves rather than being pointed in a certain direction by the distorting effect of allowances . |
| 21 | Programs chosen must also be relevant to the subject matter studied by pupils and not artificially inserted into the curriculum The software must relate directly to the way in which the sub being taught in a particular school and one disadvantage of generally produced software , in history for example , is that it may be rely in one school but not in another . |
| 22 | They 're being taught in a converted pigsty while staff try to get retrospective planning permission for the school . |
| 23 | The move from Greek Street — where at one stage he had had 60 boys being taught in the old Headmaster 's house — to Buxton Road had gone smoothly , and Daniel 's most illustrious pupil , Edge , had just become a Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 24 | Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms . |
| 25 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 26 | In October the then Justice Minister , Hsiao Tien-tsang , resigned after being implicated in an influence-peddling scandal over land re-zoning . |
| 27 | A new approach was being mooted in the heaving undergrowth of ultra-left literature . |
| 28 | The hard economics of open systems are being addressed in a big way by Tandem Computers Inc , both in products and manufacturing . |
| 29 | Some of these questions are now being addressed in the Royal Society of Arts ' Tomorrow 's Company inquiry into company purpose in a changing world , which was launched at the end of January . |
| 30 | The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas . |