Example sentences of "[adv] [being] [vb pp] [adv prt] " 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 | It 's bad enough being woken up by the baby without going back to bed and then being woken up by . |
| 3 | ‘ If this is because you feel you 're only being asked out of politeness … |
| 4 | This , like the bass drum , has two ‘ heads ’ , or vibrating surfaces , the upper head only being played on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ! |
| 11 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 12 | ‘ He is constantly being thrust down our throats by the BBC and others as an ace pundit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The network will study how to manage a large collection of computers , which are constantly being switched in and out of the Universe network . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | He was constantly being put down by his friend , and it did n't help for me to be putting his friend down . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race . |
| 20 | This ratio shows that measures of housing condition have remained quite stable between 1976 and 1981 , with the rate of improvement perhaps being slowed down by reduced grant availability in the late 1970s , but that there are distinct differences between different types of location in the incidence of poor housing . |
| 21 | It was crowded with silent people , voices stilled as they became aware of the drama suddenly being played out in their midst . |
| 22 | The image of suddenly being called in to take over from George Birkitt and astounding the critics with his unsung brilliance was one that would not go away , however hard he tried to suppress it . |
| 23 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 24 | ‘ Many functions such as baggage handling , catering and maintenance are already being contracted out to specialist third parties . ’ |
| 25 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 26 | It is hoped the home will be open early in 1994 but a management committee is already being set up . |
| 27 | The owner of premises to be used for this purpose is required to obtain a ‘ disposal licence ’ under section 5(1) of that Act to either commence , or if disposal was already being carried out before the Act came into force , to continue operations . |
| 28 | It has been a thrill as a member of the Development Group to witness the work already being carried out by Ronnie Martin and his team . |
| 29 | The project aims to make it easier to compare research already being carried out in these topics by IER and INSEE , culminating in the holding of a comparative seminar . |
| 30 | The housebuilding division is already being wound down . |