Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faith is being treated in much the same way . |
| 2 | Railwaymen were going to object to funds being used to further the political careers of such men . |
| 3 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |
| 4 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 5 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |
| 6 | Any recording system must be capable of being repeated in exactly the same form on future dates . |
| 7 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 8 | By the time of the Crécy campaign in 1346 men-at-arms and mounted archers , who would fight on foot in positions chosen , as far as possible , for their defensive possibilities , were being recruited in broadly the same numbers . |