Example sentences of "being [vb pp] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually he was rewarded for his long and faithful service by being placed in the heavens as the constellation of Aquarius . |
2 | It was a group which came together in 1972 in an attempt to focus attention on the severity and inconsistencies of sentences being given in the courts to loyalists charged with politically motivated offences in contrast to those being given to republicans . |
3 | We also report on initiatives being developed in the regions in support of general SVQs . |
4 | After being baptised in the hands of Henry Spalding , Joseph spent much of his first seven years at the Lapwai Mission , where Eliza Spalding 's growing band of helpers gave academic and religious instruction . |
5 | Why is he being interviewed in the pages of this magazine ? |
6 | Even in relation to non-manual workers , however , serious manpower shortages and problems of relocating staff were being reported in the mid-1980s in many parts of southern England ( Parsons , 1987 ; IMS , 1987 ) . |
7 | I can only assume that this continuing violence to musical instruments is being pursued in the interests of ‘ entertaining ’ the majority of the audience ( who are non-musicians ) . |
8 | ‘ It 's like being caught in the jaws of a vice , ’ says Andrew Jones , head of tax consultancy and compliance at Ernst & Young . |
9 | A DOUBLE-DECKER PAGEANT WAGON BEING BUILT IN THE GROUNDS OF KING 'S MANOR , YORK ( Page 73 ) |
10 | The centre is being built in the grounds of Edinburgh 's Western General Hospital adjacent to the Medical Research Council 's human genetics unit . |
11 | Crushed flint was used mainly in the manufacture of superior earthenware , which was being made in the Potteries before china and porcelain . |
12 | Increasingly strict interpretations are being applied in the courts of the US and other countries . |
13 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with . |
14 | Energy in the brain comes from burning glucose , so if we could find out if , where and when more glucose was being used in the minutes after training , we would have a clue as to which areas of the brain were relevant to the memory storage process . |
15 | But most of them can take solace in that their performances are n't being reflected in the results of late . |
16 | The new spirit of cooperation between France and the United States was soon being displayed in the operations of an American privateer sailing from French ports . |
17 | He first ventured into retailing in 1964 because he was so disenchanted with the way his furniture was being displayed in the shops to which he supplied . |
18 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
19 | Out of the window , as she hastened down the spiral staircase , Mildred saw the fires which were being lit in the ruins of the old castle where the celebrations were always held . |
20 | Although such an approach may appeal to those interested in the operation of machines as historical artifacts and in some cases is vital to ability to ‘ read ’ those files which technology has already passed-by ( a classic example being the maintenance of punch card readers to process the already long-forgotten decks of eighty-column cards currently being rediscovered in the corners of filing cabinets , broom cupboards and the like ) , a more efficient strategy is to be found in the transfer of machine-readable files to a hardware and software independent format . |
21 | Even before we are born the shape and pattern of wrinkles on the surface of the two hemispheres of the brain differ to an appreciable extent ( see figure ) -some of the most noticeable asymmetries being found in the regions of cerebral cortex associated with language . |
22 | Then it can be argued that too much power is being concentrated in the hands of the minister . |
23 | The concern culminated in the publication in 1929 by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Hewart , of his book The New Despotism in which these arguments and the theme that arbitrary power was being concentrated in the hands of the bureaucracy were elaborated . |
24 | Marxist approaches argue that economic relations more or less determine who has political power and how this political power is exercised , with power being concentrated in the hands of the bourgeoisie . |
25 | The politeness principle , like the co-operative principle , may be formulated as a series of maxims which people assume are being followed in the utterances of others . |
26 | It is the big topic of conversation , and players experience local fame by being waylaid in the streets for a chat about the final . |
27 | Apocryphal tales gallop across the country with lightning speed , and there is rarely a moment when some bizarre story is not being spread in the interests of gossip and exaggeration . |
28 | The expansion , it is pointed out , relates solely to administration , with responsibility for the formulation of criminal policy being retained in the hands of the Home Office . |
29 | She was still in her night things , and somehow did n't seem able to make the simplest connections in her mind ; right hand hugging her left elbow , she 'd been rocking herself gently ever since she 'd been wakened by the sounds of garage doors opening and cars being started in the mews outside her window . |
30 | This has put off many potential investors fearful of being entangled in the courts for years . |