Example sentences of "[adv] [being] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 2 | As a result , the main criterion was based on estimated teaching activity with past research performance apparently being accorded relatively little weight . ’ |
| 3 | The question of fraud had earlier been raised in December 1988 , when the Court had complained of double-counting by beef farmers : an EP committee had reported in late January that in three areas of West Germany , 80 per cent of all cattle were apparently being slaughtered more than once ( for earlier cases see pp. 35915 ; 36493 ) . |
| 4 | It 's bad enough being woken up by the baby without going back to bed and then being woken up by . |
| 5 | ‘ If this is because you feel you 're only being asked out of politeness … |
| 6 | This , like the bass drum , has two ‘ heads ’ , or vibrating surfaces , the upper head only being played on . |
| 7 | the only thing to bear in mind is that we a little bit careful w with the changing environment we 're working in that it , with it only being pushed forward by direct projects if if nobody else wants it we could be wasting some of our money . |
| 8 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is only being put forward , not because it 's a spare capacity , but because it 's a choice between selling something and getting income , or cutting a service somewhere else . |
| 11 | Local fisherpeople are not only being hustled out from what they consider to be community lands , but also being denied access to estuaries closed off by shrimp companies . |
| 12 | Among the smaller northern peoples there was no tribal aristocracy , chiefs only being chosen temporarily for specific purposes such as war . |
| 13 | Yet the tension between realism and fantasy already showed signs of deteriorating into mere proximity , not pulling against each other interestingly but merely being slapped down side by side — or — end to end . |
| 14 | He is merely being asked why he did not discuss the matter with Lord King . |
| 15 | Now , it seemed , that sense of security was all being swept away , and by another man — this large , arrogant man . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've had a very simple idea , ’ says Jim enthusiastically , ‘ and that 's simply to put all six strings into one packet instead of having six individual packets all being thrown away . |
| 17 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 18 | Are they aware that the layouts produced by ZZAP ! are constantly being ripped off and copied by at least 40% of all other mag 's on the shelves ? ! |
| 19 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 20 | ‘ He is constantly being thrust down our throats by the BBC and others as an ace pundit . |
| 21 | With hindsight , I would recommend only one breeding pair to a tank , or the other fish are constantly being chased away from one nest or another . |
| 22 | In Masailand such thoughts could be entertained without abandoning the imperial obligation to attempt improvement ; there DO-hood was constantly being born anew , the same irresistible force meeting the same immovable object . |
| 23 | It would be ridiculous to suggest that black kids who are constantly being geared up by teachers to thrust themselves into sports , do not , at some stage , recognize that there exists a manipulative element : they feel they are regarded as naturally gifted sportsmen ( see Vince Hilaire 's opening quotation ) , but without an abundance of intellectual equipment , who are used for the purposes of bringing prestige to both the individual teacher and the school . |
| 24 | It is constantly being pulled downwards by gravity , but its wings are performing active work — obeying laws of physics within its muscles — to keep it aloft in spite of the force of gravity . |
| 25 | The network will study how to manage a large collection of computers , which are constantly being switched in and out of the Universe network . |
| 26 | ‘ Lili Marlene ’ was constantly being moaned out on the radio , but when I was with my friends , the ones who had gramophones , we played American records which their parents had acquired years before the war . |
| 27 | The company was enjoying a phase during which new products were constantly being introduced so that in January 1981 , partly to keep customers aware of the ever-expanding range and also to enlarge the buying circle , the company initiated twice yearly catalogues . |
| 28 | He was constantly being put down by his friend , and it did n't help for me to be putting his friend down . ’ |
| 29 | They came on the scene when the private telegraph companies were ‘ nationalised ’ and integrated into the Post Office , the women literally being taken on as a ‘ job lot ’ with their male colleagues . |
| 30 | By the end of the 1970s , such of these early headhunting characters who still survived could be found occupying the positions of non-executive directors and chairmen of search firms , lending respectability and weight but not necessarily being called on for practical help ; by the 1980s most had disappeared . |