Example sentences of "[being] [verb] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The stress response in relation to being overweight is now being recognized by professionals . |
| 3 | And that was the kind of advice some years ago was being given by solicitors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the other hand , here , as in other parts of the Pyrenees , those who are left are now being joined by others who have retired or who have bought a second home in the foothills . |
| 7 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 8 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 9 | The incident , which took place while several people , including children , were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 10 | The rescued man was yesterday being examined by doctors at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 11 | A US armed forces spokesman , Lt-Col Greg Smith , said many of the 527 migrants were ill and were being examined by doctors after disembarking over the weekend . |
| 12 | Other skeletons taken from the site are still being examined by experts . |
| 13 | The Wensleydale market town with its inns , its tea shops and its cobbles looks to have as much chance of being frequented by members of the oldest profession as being the venue for the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 14 | Firstly , as there is consistent evidence of variations in use of services being explained by variations in supply , a formula based on variations in use between even small areas will partly reflect variations in supply . |
| 15 | At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country . |
| 16 | The void left by the banning of the slave-trade was to some extent being filled by transports of ‘ indentured ’ labour , mainly from India and China , whose conditions were scarcely better . |
| 17 | Lu Jin-Dong was appointed Honorary President with Vice President positions being filled by representatives from Taipei , Singapore and Italy . |
| 18 | It is a common complaint of institutionalized paranoiacs in the West that they are perfectly sane and being persecuted by psychiatrists ; in certain socialist utopias in the East it is sometimes the literal truth . |
| 19 | The third source of armed resistance to the government lay in the long-running secessionist struggle being waged by Moslems in Mindanao and its neighbouring territories . |
| 20 | The patterns of employment in Britain are being re-structured by employers seeking to maintain their market position during the current recession , and introduce new technology . |
| 21 | A helpline which offers advice to people in debt is being inundated by calls . |
| 22 | In order to discover how recently-acquired items being consulted by readers had been obtained by the Library , all post-1976 imprints issued ( that is , all issues published in the five years preceding the Call-slip analysis exercise ) were identified , and their method of acquisition determined by examining the Library 's stamp on the verso of their titlepages . |
| 23 | Pages headed Handout are intended primarily for use when the course is being completed by groups of students under the guidance of an instructor or course leader . |
| 24 | This project is being undertaken by teams of British and French economists working in close collaboration . |
| 25 | Case Study No. 6 gives details of the kinds of shared self-help initiatives being undertaken by teachers who are opposed to discrimination and committed to multilingualism . |
| 26 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 27 | With a realisation that many of the profession 's tasks , in both the private and the public sector , now being undertaken by graduates and full members of the Institution could equally well be done by qualified technicians , the role , influence and recognition of technician courses is bound to increase . |
| 28 | On 19 January electric trains began operation between Bishop 's Stortford and Cambridge , and within three months authority was received to electrify the nearby ten-mile gap from Royston to Shepreth Branch Junction ( near Cambridge ) , the anticipated £2.5million costs being justified by savings in the use of rolling stock and lower maintenance costs . |
| 29 | This would form the basis of a scheme for protecting all words of store from being manipulated by instructions which are not defined for the relevant data format . |
| 30 | If the local people are being manipulated by others for their gain then of course the situation is different . |