Example sentences of "being [verb] by the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A fluid particle with positive v is being carried by the turbulence in the positive y-direction . |
| 3 | why this week … well in exactly three years time the Olympic flame will be lit in Atlanta for the next games … and one of the new sports will be laser sailing … and all the boats are being built by the company in Banbury |
| 4 | The success it as achieved , and continues to achieve , highlights the remarkable contribution being made by the company in the protection of the environment . |
| 5 | Assuming however that the mother 's claim was not valid , or that she did not make it , the question arises whether the justices ought to consider the care being offered by the grandmother in assessing the threshold condition rather than the care which is actually being provided by the mother . |
| 6 | The results of our education reforms and improvements in the 1980s are being shown by the way in which our young people are leaving higher education with qualifications . |
| 7 | Already being used by the law in the US , the head-to-toe outfit gives that Michelin man effect but is , we 're told , light and flexible at the same time as being resistant to punches , bottles and the occasional kicking . |
| 8 | That is being helped by the change in the turkey processing market in the past 15 years or so which has led to two-thirds of the national output , worth a total of £300 million a year , being eaten in portion and added value form . |
| 9 | Now the four-hundredth anniversary of the painter 's death is being celebrated by the city in even grander style , with an international loan exhibition in the revamped Museo Civico . |
| 10 | The latter , which may be a plasmid ( extrachromosomal molecules of DNA that exist in many bacteria ) or a phage ( normally a bacterial virus ) , must be capable of being recognised by the host in order for replication to occur . |
| 11 | The nature of employment is also being affected by the increase in the dependency ratio . |
| 12 | There is a consistent view that Britain 's history has been characterised by stability and decency , and that the moderate ‘ British way of life ’ is being undermined by the upsurge in delinquency . |
| 13 | She refused to call a truce during the war of 1914–18 , and her refusal to pay income tax resulted in her belongings being seized by the bailiff in 1917 . |
| 14 | The German model looked to the elevation of mind being attained by the student in personal pursuit of knowledge . |
| 15 | ( Rule 43 specifies that ‘ In the event of national action being proposed by the Union in pursuance of any of the objects of the Union , the following provision shall apply : that a national strike shall only be entered upon as the result of a ballot vote of the members taken in pursuance of a resolution of Conference , and a strike shall not be declared unless 55 per cent [ changed in April 1984 to ‘ a simple majority' ] of those voting in the ballot vote in favour of such a strike ’ : Crick , 1985 , pp. 149–50 . ) |
| 16 | In these , the L3 sheds the retained sheath of the L2 within the alimentary tract of the host , the stimulus for exsheathment being provided by the host in a manner similar to the hatching stimulus required by egg-infective nematodes . |
| 17 | CA 's business is being hit by the slowdown in mainframe sales , while Sun , with its high-end multi-processor servers now on the market , is keen to gain more credibility in the commercial world and is currently building up its portfolio of commercial tools , migration/ rightizing software and commercial applications . |
| 18 | The luxuries of the past are being reclaimed by the jungle in both places . |
| 19 | On April 7 , 1990 , it was reported that a quarterly survey of corporate partnerships , undertaken by UK accountants Peat Marwick McLintock showed that COCOM rules were being circumvented by the rise in the number of small joint ventures . |
| 20 | ‘ Labour 's own Scottish Watergate has also emphasised the need for a leader who has the authority of being elected by the party in Scotland . ’ |
| 21 | Once a way of beating the British winter it 's now being beaten by the upsurge in all-weather pitches outside . |
| 22 | There were 15 constituencies corresponding to the country 's 15 administrative Bezirke ( regions ) , the number of deputies in each being determined by the population in each case . |
| 23 | The girl who was being chased by the bloke in the weird headgear . |
| 24 | The fate of those who are still living and of the hostages who are now being held by the regime in Iraq is not being decided by a beneficent Government . |