Example sentences of "being [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Basrah had a hard war , first by being caught up on the fringes of routine military engagements and later by itself becoming a direct target for bombardment . |
| 4 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 5 | Gentleness keeps us from being caught up in the illusions of the world . |
| 6 | Penarth was just one of 30 sites around the country being cleaned up by the MCS on a National Beach Clean day in April . |
| 7 | Some of the men they knew had gone home to Ireland to escape being called up for the forces , but many more were serving in the Army , Navy or Air Force or were at sea with the Merchant Marine . |
| 8 | In March 1915 at a discussion between London Tramways Managers , Mr. Mason said he did not think women were suitable to conduct large open top cars , but in the New Year , the Company had to employ them , as so many men were being called up in the forces . |
| 9 | He did n't like being tied up to the women . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 13 | THE Delors Discount Deli is being set up by the Consumers Association in Edinburgh to coincide with the European Community Summit . |
| 14 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 15 | All managers are being trained up to the standards of NEBOSH , the national examining body for health and safety in the UK , and by September 300 will have completed the full NEBOSH course . |
| 16 | Where possible , the more significant ‘ non-Leicestershire ’ cases are being followed up in the relevant local newspapers , and national events are being followed up in The Times . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The next wave of families were gathered in huddles : the next wave of berks , burglars and bunglers was being dredged up from the cells . |
| 20 | 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 . |