Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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1 | Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations . |
2 | The classical view was that progression occurred in a zigzag fashion by movements of the legs in two alternating groups , the fore and hind legs of one side and the mid leg of the other side being moved forward simultaneously while the insect is balanced on a " tripod of support " formed by the remaining three legs . |
3 | Expedition is useful in the case of property being resold very shortly after the unregistered title has been purchased , when it 's desired to give the new purchaser a registered title and completion is to take place before the title would normally be registered . |
4 | An independent hint that it was being used even earlier than the Shang dynasty is the appearance of turquoise , the nearest sources of which were situated on the Iranian plateau , during the initial Erh-li-t'ou stage of the Bronze Age . ’ |
5 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly that the ride is uncomfortable by a brusque and unhelpful driver . ’ |
6 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
7 | Unless Mr Kravchuk — who likes to be seen holding the spiky bulava ( mace ) , the symbol of Ukraine 's bygone Cossack leaders — puts his vanity aside , he could end up being judged as harshly as the most famous Cossack , Bohdan Khmelnytsky . |
8 | Monsters were being created as early as the fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Iran . |