Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of their being formed at random can not be overemphasized ; control groups start life the same as experimental groups in all respects simply by virtue of having been formed at random . |
| 2 | E. P. Thompson is no doubt right to insist that a distinctive working-class culture was being formed at this period . |
| 3 | Was a new movement being formed at last ? |
| 4 | The first was Starr v National Coal Board [ 1977 ] 1 WLR 63 which dealt with the plaintiff 's right to object to being examined at all by the defendant 's doctor . |
| 5 | The work areas required in main storage are relatively small as only one record is being examined at any one time . |
| 6 | Communication amongst friends includes a much broader field than what is being communicated at that moment . |
| 7 | They 've been checked over , as I say , the first one 's been cleared , and that 's been allowed to proceed , and the next ship er is being checked at this moment . |
| 8 | Control can be difficult if there is a range of different tasks being undertaken at any one moment . |
| 9 | We were very pleased and honoured to receive a visit from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , both of whom displayed a keen interest in our work and were even inveigled , by , into performing with the ‘ Dopple Kloppers ’ , being taught at that session ! |
| 10 | This strategy of inculcation and for more explicit interventions into the flow of subjective responses , experiences , and pleasures , had a great deal in common with the programme for a renewed Liberalism being developed at this time by L. T. Hobhouse : |
| 11 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 12 | The Countess of Huntingdon 's Methodist Connexion , founded in the mid-18th century , was yet another Calvinistic organisation , we may note with interest ; what with Robert Titford being baptised at one of their chapels , and his sister Elizabeth having been registered with the Zion congregation in Frome , Calvinism seems once again to have cast its shadow across the family , even into the 19th century . |
| 13 | It is a very remarkable fact that the unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another , without the conscious being implicated at all . |
| 14 | During the reign of Elizabeth I , English seamen such as Drake , Hawkins , Grenville and Raleigh exasperated the Spanish by their expeditions to the Americas , and the Roman Catholic King Philip of Spain also considered Elizabeth I a heretic ; so he despatched a great fleet of galleons , in 1588 , named ‘ The Armada ’ , to sail up the English Channel and transport a Spanish army of invasion from the Netherlands , but the smaller British ships played havoc with the mighty ships during their journey and stormy weather drove the remnants of the Armada around the British Isles , most of the ships being wrecked at various points , including the Atlantic west coast of Ireland . |
| 15 | Executives from the main functional areas ( finance , production , personnel and marketing ) are being interviewed at these various levels with results fed back to the companies for discussion , and made more generally available through a book , articles and in conferences and seminars . |
| 16 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
| 17 | With consumption growing at only about 1 per cent a year ( the rate of growth of the labour force ) , the system would have become one in which machines were being installed at hectic rates in order to produce other machines . |
| 18 | And at Kidlington on the A four two three , Langford Lane 's junction with Banbury Road sees temporary traffic lights for resurfacing prior to the traffic lights being installed at that junction ; some fairly long delays there at the moment . |
| 19 | The first rooms are being installed at Green School . |
| 20 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 21 | Biddlecombe 's new beat is around the horse sales … his year 's of racing expertise is being harnessed at last … and the best news of all is that he may soon be back in the saddle |
| 22 | As the probes descended to the surface of the planet , arrays of detectors measured the infrared radiation being emitted at different wavelengths by the atmosphere . |
| 23 | It had the added distinction of being edited at one time by Nelson Mandela , the ANC leader now in prison . |
| 24 | The system provides facilities for lexicographers to take check-point copies of the entry being edited at any terminal . |
| 25 | Being dropped at half past eight in the morning |
| 26 | After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time . |
| 27 | The product is being targeted at small to medium sized work groups , and operates over Ethernet , ARCnet and Token Ring topologies . |
| 28 | Initially the scheme is being targeted at five landscape types : chalk and limestone grassland , lowland heath , waterside landscapes , coastal land and uplands . |
| 29 | The committee says its measures are aimed at protecting the privacy of ordinary people who come into contact with the press as well as being targeted at recent revelations in tapes involving the Royal Family . |
| 30 | Xoren Computing Ltd , based in London , has announced version 2 of its Multi-Poll polling software package for a central host VAX computer : the software enables personal computers , Unix systems and VAXes at multiple remote branches to be telephone-polled by the central host , and is being targeted at vertical markets including retailing , distribution and banking ; new enhancements include procedures for setting up site details , lists of files to be transferred , modem details and re-try procedures , and reports and performance statistics ; no word yet on any prices for it . |