Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scuffles broke out when more than 60 protesters began tearing down a fence while it was being erected by council contractors around the trees on a strip of land at Stafford Park . |
| 2 | However , it is interesting to note that in a City History of 1830 , reference is made to ‘ the ideal dwellings for the working class now being erected by Mr. Penniston . ’ |
| 3 | Namely , he should try to answer some hard questions , one of them being formulated by Arthur C. Clarke himself : ‘ The question is not what shall we do without work — but what do we live for ? ’ |
| 4 | Robert Stewart , 28 , of Skipton Green , Low Fell , Gateshead had denied the charge at Newcastle Crown Court , saying he had bought the car just three weeks before being stopped by police and the 351 squares of the drug hidden in fog lamp covers must have been left there by the previous owner . |
| 5 | The stress response in relation to being overweight is now being recognized by professionals . |
| 6 | ‘ Nevertheless I feel that Crevecoeur is being shielded by Malamute . |
| 7 | six out of these fourteen were clearly more prominent being listed by 25% or more of the companies . |
| 8 | The Langdale Linen Industry was formed , with instruction in the making of Ruskin lace being given by Miss Twelves . |
| 9 | Co-chairman John Roberts said Colwyn Bay had provisionally agreed to the ground sharing plan subject to permission being given by Colwyn Borough Council . |
| 10 | In some cases , incentives are being given by management to workers who disassoc disassociate themselves from the unions , leading to hostility and antagonism within the workplace between workers who have traditionally been united in furthering industrial relations . |
| 11 | The Gilmerton Bypass has been designed by civil engineering staff in the Regional Council 's Department of Highways with specialist advice being given by J W H Ross & Co , Consulting Mining and Civil Engineers , in the treatment of old mineworkings . |
| 12 | And that was the kind of advice some years ago was being given by solicitors . |
| 13 | This project has been conceived and designed by engineering staff in the Regional Council 's Department of Highways with assistance being given by ScotRail and Messrs J B Schofield and Partners in the design and construction supervision of the two bridges carrying the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway over the Sighthill Bypass and associated roadworks and in the temporary diversion of this railway . |
| 14 | At the time of writing , no indigenous British originated discs have been announced and , despite substantial potential interest on the part of British information publishers , there are few signs of a clear , decisive lead being given by Sony to encourage initial investments in disc development . |
| 15 | CONSIDERATION is being given by Powys ' highways department to providing a right turning lane for traffic on the A483 trunk road in Newtown , following concern expressed by Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council for the safety of pedestrians crossing the road between the Do It All superstore and the Safeways supermarket . |
| 16 | In general the circuits of figures 10.11(a) and ( b ) behave as low and high-pass filters respectively , the responses being given by equation ( 10.40 ) with the appropriate values of Z 1 and Z 2 inserted in each case . |
| 17 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 18 | In order to comply with the directions being given by Mr to our client to rearrange his finances , your client 's letter in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead in which to put your finances in order . |
| 19 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 20 | The message is being relayed by Prince Philip and the Queen 's private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes in the wake of her decision to pay taxes and meet Civil List payments for other royals . |
| 21 | The waters are being polluted by mercury , oil and silt as a result of the mining . |
| 22 | The paper notes specifically that companies would have to invest more in pollution prevention and farmers would have to introduce measures to prevent water being polluted by run-offs from their land . |
| 23 | His vision of owners applying the same judgements to their buildings as they might to their car or their rivers being polluted by waste dumping . |
| 24 | The Spix 's macaw 's deep blue plumage has led to its being prized by collectors around the world , who will pay up to £29,000 for a single specimen . |
| 25 | This project rests on the distinction between an alliance and an entente , the former being distinguished by firm and usually detailed military commitments , the latter by weaker and less precise ones , as in the case of the relationship between the United States and Israel . |
| 26 | The women and girls who worked long hours , often by candlelight , to supplement the meagre incomes their menfolk earned as farm labourers , used wheat straw cut by hand by the local farmers , to prevent the stems being broken by machinery . |
| 27 | The moist silence was being broken by birdsong ; it was a hectic chattering , insistent , like the rain . |
| 28 | The most interesting new addition is Open Desktop Lite , a cut-down version of release 3.0 that is pitched squarely at the stand-alone iAPX-86 workstations also being coveted by SunSoft Inc , Univel Inc and NeXT Computer Inc . |
| 29 | The most interesting new addition is Open Desktop Lite , a cut-down version of release 3.0 that is pitched squarely at the standalone Intel workstation space also being coveted by SunSoft Inc , Univel Inc and NeXT Computer Inc . |
| 30 | Now I know ’ — JOHN SCOTT ( ex-England no.8 ) after being dismissed by Cardiff . |