Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each character generated by the Spectrum requires one byte of storage space , each byte being made up of eight bits . |
| 2 | He saw this as being compatible with the crust being made up of two layers , the upper one of relatively low density , the lower layer of higher density . |
| 3 | It 's also significant that the school 's reputation seems greater abroad than it is within the USA , with a large complement of each class being made up of foreign students . |
| 4 | Each paradigm will regard the world as being made up of different kinds of things . |
| 5 | The Civic Society takes the view that if land is being transferred out of industrial land and the District Council is going to allow this to happen , this casts doubt about how genuine the need is to find additional industrial land when land already allocated to industry is being lost . |
| 6 | Under the impetus of the Government 's community care policies in England and Wales , people are being moved out of mental handicap hospitals into community placements . |
| 7 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 8 | Iskandrov had visited Uzbekistan on Sept. 12 , amid reports that Uzbeks were being driven out of southern Tajikistan . |
| 9 | Then there is Test no.8 Tim Gavin who is making slow progress after being ruled out of last year 's World Cup because of damaged knee ligaments . |
| 10 | Peter Davis , leader of a delegation from the local Conservative Association , said yesterday : ‘ We feel the racecourse would benefit by being taken out of local authority hands . ’ |
| 11 | After being thrown out of 14 schools in eleven years , at the sweet and tender age of 16 , the boy who grew up to be Rambo , side-stepped into his father 's beauty parlour business . |
| 12 | He said people were being thrown out of psychiatric hospitals into ‘ care ’ that did not exist . |
| 13 | Put another way , this means that after only 200 milliseconds the target word cohort would have contained an average of 29 words if the word was being identified independently of any context . |
| 14 | Stuart , unhappy at being left out of this bore draw , said : ‘ To say I am not happy is an understatement . |
| 15 | This meant that , instead of being composed entirely of separate infantry , cavalry , motorized , engineering , supplies and medical units , it also contained battalions each of which had its own infantry , cavalry , motorized , etc. sections . |
| 16 | Pardy 's previous convictions were of a relatively trivial nature , being ordered out of several county towns by magistrates for persistently collecting without a licence in the street — rattling his tin in support of a variety of causes but only very recently turning his attention to those connected with animals . |