Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the wounded were being placed on the grass in front of the Chateau . |
| 2 | Attention is being given to the manner in which higher education responded to the demands for a ‘ hard science ’ approach in education during this period of post ) war reconstruction . |
| 3 | this must be Uncle Robert who said ‘ a lengthy grace in Latin , perfectly enunciated ’ : clearly the same Mr Finlay who was ‘ a generous friend to the Golf Club , the new clubhouse , as well as the Newton ground being given to the club in free occupancy ’ . |
| 4 | A Mareva injunction was granted by the English court , but the Irish action was the one which went to trial , judgment being given for the plaintiff in the sum of some £3.4 million . |
| 5 | And , speaking just hours before the Budget , he warned that confusion in the signals being given by the Chancellor in his handling of economic policy would damage the ‘ fragile confidence ’ now emerging . |
| 6 | Socialist and Communist influence in the universities increased rapidly , one fifth of the undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge being enrolled in the ULF in 1939 . |
| 7 | Both relate to the social environment of the person with an established schizophrenic illness : while he is being treated for the disorder in hospital , and after he has been discharged into the community . |
| 8 | She was , therefore , simply being treated in the way in which the French thought royal children should be brought up . |
| 9 | Although technically and creatively impressive , I found myself being distanced from the narrative in Vera Neubauer 's 33 minute epic ‘ The Decision ’ . |
| 10 | They are accustomed to the effects of a gene being limited to the body in which it sits . |
| 11 | After curing , the hams are soaked and then simmered , black treacle usually being added to the water in which they are cooked . |
| 12 | A fluid particle with positive v is being carried by the turbulence in the positive y-direction . |
| 13 | The dancers arrived , singly or together , wearing jeans and thick sweaters and high-heeled leather boots , and they hung up their fun furs on the backs of dressing-room doors as the showtape was being wound onto the reel-to-reel in the stage manager 's control room somewhere above . |
| 14 | Our review guitar is a Manson Classic S of the back-routed design — which means that the pickups are mounted straight into the body , instead of being built into the scratchplate in the traditional manner ( although you can order that , too , if you wish ) . |
| 15 | why this week … well in exactly three years time the Olympic flame will be lit in Atlanta for the next games … and one of the new sports will be laser sailing … and all the boats are being built by the company in Banbury |
| 16 | The views of centres are therefore being sought on the year in which it is considered that candidates could be enrolled on new-style courses , for those courses which are not the subject of national development of units . |
| 17 | ‘ The justices were under a duty to consider whether it was better for the child for a secure accommodation order to be made rather than no order at all being made upon the application in accordance with section 1(5) of the Children Act . |
| 18 | The success it as achieved , and continues to achieve , highlights the remarkable contribution being made by the company in the protection of the environment . |
| 19 | The bricks were being made from the soil in the house 's backyard . |
| 20 | Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action . |
| 21 | A 22-year-old man is today recovering in hospital after being shot in the leg in Belfast . |
| 22 | A 19-year-old man died after being shot in the head in a north London street as his girlfriend and two-year-old daughter looked on , police said yesterday . |
| 23 | The other difference is that in the James-type account the mind is pictured as being related to the body in a certain manner . |
| 24 | This was done by reproducing the flight instrument panel by means of computer graphics on a visual display unit with the recorded data being fed to the display in real time . |
| 25 | Brent McCafferty , 26 , was said to be poorly in hospital last night after being stabbed in the arm in an incident outside his home in Colchester Terrace , Sunderland . |
| 26 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 27 | Each of them is being pumped into the atmosphere in vast amounts : and the reason they are not found in vast amounts is that they are extremely reactive or soluble in water , and so are quickly converted into some other compound , or washed out by rain . |
| 28 | An erection is caused by blood being pumped into the penis in response to sexual arousal . |
| 29 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 30 | Assuming however that the mother 's claim was not valid , or that she did not make it , the question arises whether the justices ought to consider the care being offered by the grandmother in assessing the threshold condition rather than the care which is actually being provided by the mother . |