Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 2 | And the reason for those is the iron in the blood is being oxidized by various substances in the body , it 's being broken down into a form in which the body can reabsorb that iron , and during the process you go through all these colour changes because of the different forms of iron oxide being produced . |
| 3 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 4 | And she insisted on being chauffeured round in a Daimler — just like the Queen . |
| 5 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 6 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 7 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 8 | The near 50-page document told prospective buyers that there were certain administrative problems but that they were being sorted out by a consultant . |
| 9 | ‘ Margaret , how did your chum Richard take my being rung up by a patient ? ’ |
| 10 | The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head . |
| 11 | instead of being rolled up in a ball |
| 12 | Only the carpet of snow relieved its drabness , and that was being rolled up by a man driving a small tractor with a scoop on the front . |
| 13 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 14 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |
| 15 | I felt a right idiot , being carried out on a stretcher , everybody gawping at me . |
| 16 | Two UN doctors who got into the area recently reported that amputations were being carried out with a carpenter 's saw and no anaesthetic or antibiotics . |
| 17 | The difficulty with standard significance tests is that their valid and effective use usually depends on the way the data are approached — for example whether the research has been designed with a specific hypothesis in mind or a less focused post hoc analysis is being carried out with a view to revealing underlying patterns . |
| 18 | There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for . |
| 19 | An experiment using silicic acid , and being carried out in a laboratory 5 metres away through a brick wall , affected the normal pattern of salt crystals being observed in Dr Reid 's laboratory . |
| 20 | He is backed by Adrian Sinfield , professor of social policy at Edinburgh University , whose concern is that attacks on the welfare state are being carried out in a climate of increasing economic inequality and worsening poverty . |
| 21 | They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer . |
| 22 | They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange . |
| 23 | Leonora lay rigid in his arms , resentful of being carried about like a bundle of laundry . |
| 24 | It was the Regent Street of Cairo ; except that in Regent Street you would not see a man walking by with a stuffed crocodile on his head or a pig being carried by in a cage . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 26 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 27 | The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) . |
| 28 | Each song consists of a constant number of these themes , each theme being made up of a number of phrases . |
| 29 | It was the most successful tour England had ever made , all the more satisfying as it began with them being written off as a bunch of no-hopers . |
| 30 | If you 're a single parent and sick of being written about as a problem , rather than written for as a reader , One Parent Plus ( Jane Ward , Optima , £4.99 ) should be a refreshing change . |