Example sentences of "[noun sg] being done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Chancellor appreciate the harm being done to the economy by the 20 per cent . |
| 2 | Peace talks were set to resume in Caracas , Venezuela , on Aug. 26 between the government and the Simon Bolivar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) , which had announced on Aug. 1 that it would suspend attacks on the country 's economic infrastructure , especially electricity pylons and oil pipelines , because of " the harm being done to the poverty stricken communities of the country " . |
| 3 | In our special reports this week we 've heard complaints of under-investment in railways , over-reliance on road building , and of harm being done to the environment . |
| 4 | There is no sense here of any engagement with the writer on what the script should be like , nor does Hepworth anticipate substantial work being done on the text after his initial moments of introspection . |
| 5 | One of the two crew , the braver , told us it was on account of the work being done on the new landing stage that access was impossible . |
| 6 | There is an increasing amount of empirical work being done on the allocation of resources within marriage ; in this country Jan Pahl ( 1980 , 1983 ) and Anne Gray ( 1979 ) have concentrated particularly on the distribution of household income between marriage partners . |
| 7 | The output was restricted due to work being done on the Main Boiler Pump Feed . |
| 8 | The the question mark I 've got is tha is that I I certainly accept that , it 's the it 's the question of the work being done at the appropriate level and the erm , the the fact that two sub teams are working without a complaint examiner , and , but I |
| 9 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 10 | But the Sunday Times seems to be looking for a figurehead for the post , with real work being done in the back room , by the likes of Harry Ritchie , Walsh 's deputy , who in the view of many in the book business would make an excellent lit ed for the paper . |
| 11 | There is , obviously , quite a lot of work being done in the relatively straightforward field of identifying advertising 's effect on sales through econometric methods , though it is still largely confined to about half-a-dozen large agencies and a similarly limited group of client companies . |
| 12 | Contact with western scholars increased , as did knowledge of the work being done in the West . |
| 13 | As has been said in the House previously , my hon. Friend will know that we are committed to the work being done in the south Atlantic , which HMS Polar Circle will shortly be carrying out . |
| 14 | Instead of the present fixed ceilings on grants , Responsible Bodies ‘ should each be given an allocation representing the maximum amount of grant available for the year , limited to 75% of the teaching costs , after consideration of the quality and standards of work being done by the responsible body , as well as its proposed programme , the needs of the region in which it operates and the activities of other interested bodies in the region ’ ( Recommendations 5 , 6 ) . |
| 15 | There is no space to tell you of the depth of fellowship I am experiencing , of the great joy I have in teaching such folk , of all I am learning from these believers who have suffered so much , of the hardening opposition by the Orthodox Church , of the great work being done by the Baptists among Bulgarian orphans and of the plans for an orphanage , school and seminary . |
| 16 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |
| 17 | In Allen v. Flood a dispute arose between the ironworkers ' union and woodworkers , the former objecting to certain work being done by the latter . |
| 18 | The people of this county , were suffering from it , through crying , because of the lack of crime prevention work being done by the previous administration , because the money was all going one way . |
| 19 | Sue Chester , training manager and liaison officer with Durham TEC , said she was delighted with the work being done by the Rathbone Society . |
| 20 | Finally , mention should be made of the pioneer work being done within the Department of Local History of Leicester University . |
| 21 | The conventional wisdom has been that the nature of the job being done by the organisation determines the requisite amount of rules and procedures . |
| 22 | Previously , there had been no trained nurses in poor-law institutions , nursing being done by the paupers themselves , and there was widespread sickness among workhouse inmates . |
| 23 | They 're frequently mutants , because of the mating being done without the protection of the Enchantment . |
| 24 | There has been a lot lately in the Press and on TV about crime and violence and it is sad to see so much wrong being done by the very young of today . |
| 25 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 26 | In addition , they can be made to break off under a large side load and in so doing , perhaps prevent further damage being done to the fuselage . |
| 27 | Recently , however , it has been given added emphasis and urgency by the growing appreciation that the damage being done to the environment by the use of fossil fuels may require drastic restrictions on their use . |
| 28 | The damage being done to the education system does not benefit anyone and certainly not the youngsters . ’ |
| 29 | This may result in permanent damage being done to the previously friendly atmosphere of the classroom . |
| 30 | I think that they , you know , i i i i if there is da damage being done to the bridge , then we 've got to somehow address that in a different way . |