Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |
| 2 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 3 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 4 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 5 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 6 | Hollywood was scared , not simply because of the threat to personal life and limb , but by the implications being meted out in the press which followed two distinct inferences : first that Polanski through his and his dead friends ' involvement with drugs had brought this tragedy upon his own house , and , second , that the ‘ new ’ Hollywood in general must accept some guilt through its current fascination with violence , drugs , sex and the lifestyle of what appeared — in the eyes of the establishment — to be a mortally sick section of society . |
| 7 | In addition , more flexible , non legislative , measures for non-scheduled sites are being considered possibly in the form of a Code of Practice . |
| 8 | Bye-laws 17 , 18 , and 22 deal with back-siphoning : wherever a cold water supply is connected to a flexible hose , the law insists that the tap or outlet is fitted with a non-return valve to prevent contaminating liquids being sucked back in the mains system by any loss of pressure . |
| 9 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 10 | Good estate management should result in the landlord maintaining an even balance of trades but the following clause is nevertheless prudent : Not to permit or suffer any [ adjoining or neighbouring premises in the ownership or control of the Landlord ] [ other premises in the Centre ] to be used for the business from time to time being carried on in the Premises |
| 11 | Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry |
| 12 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |
| 13 | Official statements said that no art restoration work was being carried out in the Chapel at the time of the fire . |
| 14 | We agree with CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 15 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 16 | Yet another youth project of a rather specialist nature is being carried out in the north east area . |
| 17 | The research is being carried out in the North West as this region is one of the largest providers of local authority unstaffed homes . |
| 18 | Most of the 38 protocols approved for genetic therapy are being carried out in the United States on patients with cancer . |
| 19 | Since then most archaeological work has been concentrated on the fortifications , with all too little excavation being carried out in the interior , mainly because of the presence of modern buildings . |
| 20 | The pilot scheme is being carried out in the Matusadona national park near the Zambian border , where the rhino population has dropped from 150 to 16 in the last five years . |
| 21 | In addition to the work being carried out in the UNEP HQ at Nairobi and in the GEMS/GRID site in Geneva , a series of GRID regional nodes are now being set up world-wide , each equipped with the same hardware and software and local subsets of the data . |
| 22 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
| 23 | The project has the support of the Zambian Government , and is part of a wider investigation into displacement in Southern Africa , being carried out in the Department of Geography at King 's College London and the Refugee Studies Programme of the University of Oxford . |
| 24 | Londonderry-based Trust members recently visited Armagh to discover the work being carried out in the city centre area . |
| 25 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | ‘ The oddly shrewd-hearted torpor of being carried home in the dark , a tourist , in my father 's arms ’ enshrines the notion of love as essentially menacing and predatory . |
| 27 | His Firebird flew and still flies in all her glory before being trapped pitifully in the arms of the Tsarevich . |
| 28 | Gentleness keeps us from being caught up in the illusions of the world . |
| 29 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 30 | He was a great melodist , but he had a real struggle being caught up in the machinery of making hits . |