Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN heroic team of firefighters is being saluted for saving three people including a mother and baby son from their blazing home . |
| 2 | Particular emphasis is being placed upon comparing those collaborations which happen spontaneously and those which take place within a publicly sponsored programme . |
| 3 | GILLES PETERSON , head of the Phonogram offshoot Talkin Loud , has been reinstated as director/DJ of London 's Jazz FM station , after being sacked for playing anti-war songs during the Gulf crisis . |
| 4 | He claimed he was really being punished for making medical advice too cheap at 6d . |
| 5 | But surely a much more central question concerns the different ways being developed of organising sexual behaviour . |
| 6 | Does he agree that the schools in Bradford provide a perfectly good technical education and that they need to be built on and improved , rather than being attacked by diverting public funds into city technology colleges ? |
| 7 | Art critics are being blamed for vandalising cast iron sculptures which have been likened to ice-cream cones or seashells . |
| 8 | Progress is being made towards establishing regional planning guidance in all the regions . |
| 9 | If the object and block are declared as being made from differing specified materials then the relations change to : unc giving the relationships shown in Figure 2.5 . |
| 10 | Thanks to the updating of the 1950 Anglo-US missile agreement in 1953 , British development costs and time were being saved by fitting Blue Streak with Atlas rocket engines and inertial guidance systems . |
| 11 | These are less amenable to being uncovered by using conventional interviews or survey methods . |
| 12 | The different results from the two studies may be due to the diurnal variation in albumin excretion rate or to different methods being used for estimating urinary albumin . |
| 13 | West Ham 's assistant manager Harry Redknapp will not face police charges after being accused of making obscene gestures to fans during Hammers ' 5-1 win at Bristol City in September . |
| 14 | One practical reason for the literal rule is that judges are now deeply afraid of being accused of making political judgments at variance with the purpose of Parliament when it passed the Act . |
| 15 | Two MPs of Kurdish origin , Leyla Zana and Hatip Dicle , resigned in mid-January from the government benches after being accused of giving verbal support to the armed separatist movement . |
| 16 | THE BRITISH parliament , the fount of Western democracies , may soon adopt the technology of the radio station phone-in to prevent its members being sued for making defamatory remarks during debates that are broadcast to the nation . |
| 17 | The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands . |
| 18 | They still , of course , have that function , but more and more the Fund 's resources are being invested in influencing those agencies which are capable of generating the much larger sums of money required to carry out these long-term programmes . |
| 19 | By the year 1720 the three-piece flute was rapidly being replaced by the four-piece with corps de rechange , which was already being played by leading French flautists . |
| 20 | The conscientious lay person was simply involved in a two-way process of having his or her conscience informed , while at the same time being protected from making unintended errors of judgement . |
| 21 | There can be a useful discussion between the project leader and an ergonomist where the former is invited to clarify how he sees these intercommunication problems being dealt with including such criteria as what is reported to him , what to the meeting of sub-heads and what occurs directly between sub-teams . |
| 22 | A SPANIARD defends his German Masters title this week , after being stung into winning last year when he was left out of the Suntory World Matchplay Championship , while an Australian plays here having sacrificed a lucrative place in this year 's matchplay event , writes Norman Dabrell from Stuttgart . |
| 23 | On the creation of a multiparty democracy he stated : " The extensive democratization currently under way in our society is being accompanied by mounting political pluralism … |
| 24 | A major research effort is now being devoted to solving this problem , especially the transfer to cereal crops . |
| 25 | My concern Madam Deputy Speaker is whether we 're all being hoodwinked into believing that deregulation bill is opening a new chapter in our legislative history when in fact it 's no more than perhaps a weasel word describing one thing but er er another thing is happening . |
| 26 | There are so few positions available to us above grade C it seems unfair that we are being penalised for taking more responsibility for less remuneration . |
| 27 | In the women 's event , the accident-prone Joanne Conway is in danger of being dethroned after suffering another tumble when she missed a combination jump in her original programme , leaving her behind Gina Fulton going into today 's free programme . |
| 28 | Baxter heard of whole households being converted through reading this book in his own day . |
| 29 | In his broadcast yesterday Ayatollah Khamanei said : ‘ Today the Zionists ( Israelis ) are unfortunately being supported in putting double pressure on the Palestinians . |
| 30 | If practical considerations make it desirable to put RE with another subject , then the one chosen is usually humanities or social studies , it being taken for granted that religion is an aspect of what people believe . |