Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 2 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
| 3 | By 1929 the drift towards a new cinema as being picked up by the critics , who eagerly pointed out both what they liked in the new films and what they thought would be well received by audiences . |
| 4 | There was some cooking being carried out by the women — and a great deal of drinking . |
| 5 | The care being carried out by the nurses may appear to be complex , e.g. special preparations for theatre and technical procedures such as the care of intravenous infusions and wound drains . |
| 6 | With birds and mammals it is nearly always the female that looks after the young , without the help of the male , but many fish reverse this procedure , with all parental duties being carried out by the males , as in the case of nest-building sticklebacks and pouch-carrying seahorses . |
| 7 | An investigation is being carried out by the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 8 | An investigation into the death is being carried out by the Police Complaints Commission . |
| 9 | The transaction 's commercial object was that the Prudential would acquire a development being carried out by the developers with funds provided by the Prudential . |
| 10 | IRAQ threatened yesterday to send fighters to patrol its border with Iran , but British and American officials said that would violate the terms of the Gulf war ceasefire and put the aircraft at risk of being shot down by the allies . |
| 11 | And we try to explain it by saying the craft is accelerating — it 's being pushed on by the rockets placed at that end of the craft . |
| 12 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 13 | Penarth was just one of 30 sites around the country being cleaned up by the MCS on a National Beach Clean day in April . |
| 14 | The conclusion is obvious ; and it is that those local searchers for a place here , who are being crowded out by the southerners , are most likely to be northern Catholics . |
| 15 | He was already used to being called out by the Sheikhs for the slightest problem . |
| 16 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 17 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
| 18 | ‘ Worst of all , being pulled up by the roots — worse for me than for j[ack] ; for Leeborough has always been my base whereas his real home has been Hillsboro [ Mrs Moore 's rented house in Headington , Oxford ] far some years now . |
| 19 | Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths said : ‘ The Chancellor is being walked over by the manufacturers . |
| 20 | THE Delors Discount Deli is being set up by the Consumers Association in Edinburgh to coincide with the European Community Summit . |
| 21 | To avoid his being rounded up by the Germans for STO ( Service du Travail Obligatoire ) and sent to the munitions factories in the east , Montaine and Mme Guérigny hid Jean-Claude in a sunken hollow in the grounds of a crumbling manor house at the edge of the village . |
| 22 | She needed guts to face always being passed over by the boys for her gorgeous sister Gloria . |
| 23 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
| 24 | I mean , I do think we need to er recognise that tremendous efforts are being put in by the individuals employed by the D S Os , but I do think that we need to recognise also , that there is a lot lacking in the , particularly the marketing of the services . |
| 25 | Well might a poem of that time depict the good ship of state being blown along by the prayers filling its sails . |
| 26 | The resolution then being flashed out by the amendments of Councillor and recognising the work of members of governing bodies given so freely . |
| 27 | Pre-tax profits this year will be lower than last year 's £42.3m and the shares , which slipped 1.5p to 127p , are only being held up by the Coats offer , worth 133p . |