Example sentences of "being [vb pp] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , she was telling us about it that girl , in wr in writing , what it , she was telling us it , about it being formed at a different venue , but it 's actually the Mary Wallis Theatre . |
| 2 | The actual driving force behind American thinking on a renewal of atomic collaborations was anxiety about uranium ore supplies , which were being consumed at an increasing rate as American programmes accelerated . |
| 3 | AMPS are preference shares which are entitled to dividends determined in accordance with an auction process in which a panel of investors participate , the shares being transferred at a fixed price to the investor who will accept the lowest dividend . |
| 4 | Spoken to a satisfactory minimum number of candidates being presented at an appropriate fee , SEFIC examinations can be carried out anywhere in the world , on any suitable premises and at any time of the year ( with at least a month 's notice ) . |
| 5 | I can confirm that 486 vehicles for new Networker trains are being manufactured at a total cost of £365 million and that the first of those trains will come into service on my hon. Friend 's line in May this year . |
| 6 | Another member , after referring to the particular reference in the Financial Secretary 's statement to airline and railway employees , asked whether the same distinction applied to services provided by hotel companies to their employees — that is , to rooms which are freely available for the general public in hotels being offered at a concessionary rate to employees of the hotel group . |
| 7 | A CHANCE to escape to the 19th century is being offered at a special day school in Cleveland on Saturday . |
| 8 | The expectation of an open offer and clawback from shareholders may be strong where the new shares being issued represent a significant proportion of the existing issued shares of the bidder or are being offered at a significant discount to their current market price . |
| 9 | This has resulted in several of the unlisted equity stakes being valued at a big discount to the quoted investments . |
| 10 | Incidentally , the first report of a Rottweiler being shown at an official dog show was at Heilbronn in 1882 . |
| 11 | In order to have a sense of how the different codes are used in interactions , it is necessary for the linguist to be quite clear about which code is being used at a particular time . |
| 12 | If directives are not being enforced at a local level , the EC market will remain unfair . |
| 13 | The Edel MacBride label is already familiar to Chicago with clothing being sold at a large department store in the city . |
| 14 | The mantle currently being sampled at a distal ocean island must have undergone fractionation of U/Pb when it was located close to a cooling ridge ( in the case of Madeira ) or a cooling plume head ( in the case of the Cameroon line ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Being called at an inconvenient time by an insensitive caller who assumes that since you 've answered the phone it must be convenient to talk ’ . |
| 16 | As mental health charity MIND produced a report criticising ‘ continued over-reliance on hospital treatment ’ , King said : ‘ It looks as if hospitals are being replaced at a reasonable pace . ’ |
| 17 | ( a ) Middle East Economic Survey ( MEES ) , indicating the terms on which both freight and insurance were being negotiated at a particular stage of the war , described the freight element as follows : ‘ Kharg to Europe : W70-80 . |
| 18 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 19 | She faced her anger at being abandoned at an earlier age than anyone would have expected , and talked about loneliness . |
| 20 | The small size of the population of Northern Ireland , together with the political difficulties experienced by the province , have led to many services being administered at a provincial level . |
| 21 | It also had an upgraded processor , Intel 8086 , which was a more capable version of the 8088 , and , incidentally , was capable of being run at a faster speed — although it was n't . |
| 22 | Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day . |
| 23 | Larger families around us were being rehoused at a steady rate , but we were doomed to wait for ever . |
| 24 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 25 | SALARIES for university law teachers have slipped so badly and professional salaries risen so dramatically that experienced staff are being lost at an alarming rate , the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools reported this week . |
| 26 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 27 | The Docklands Light Railway is being extended at an eventual cost of £800 million . |
| 28 | The rainforests are being destroyed at a frightening rate , by burning , logging , flooding , mining and pollution . |
| 29 | The lowland tropical forests of eastern Bolivia are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate , according to international aid agencies . |
| 30 | The goods which include caravans , trailers , antiques and jewellery are all being kept at a secret location . |