Example sentences of "[adv] being [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's bad enough being woken up by the baby without going back to bed and then being woken up by . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was constantly being put down by his friend , and it did n't help for me to be putting his friend down . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By the end of the century , quite a few of the less skilled operations in the paper and print sector were being handled by women : machine-feeding , paper-ruling and folding ; manufacture of boxes , cartons , bags and labels ; and in bookbinding , operations which had gradually been downgraded from " skilled " to " semi-skilled " , such as stitching and collating , were largely being carried out by women . |
| 9 | Once back in training he was put over fences : after unseating Champion at Newbury he won at Ascot on 1 April 1977 and was soon being singled out by his connections as a future Grand National winner . |
| 10 | The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’ |
| 11 | The software world is gradually being taken over by little animals , and they 're not the sort of cuddly , fluffy ones we 're used to seeing . |
| 12 | But Martin Deery weighed in with number six in the closing minutes , fittingly being set up by club captain Clarke , who was brought on along with Holywood 's other French players to savour their historic championship moment . |
| 13 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 14 | Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore . |
| 15 | She needed guts to face always being passed over by the boys for her gorgeous sister Gloria . |
| 16 | The threat from investment in the East is also being played down by TUC officials who say the biggest business to be done by investors will be in filling East European markets with much-craved products . |
| 17 | A bank of information is also being set up by the Panel with a view to helping those with disabilities at the Bar . |
| 18 | It is also being ushered in by an unusual duo : contracting credit and falling interest rates . |
| 19 | Bannister , 32 , pleaded with Clough for a trial at the start of the season after being kicked out by West Bromwich , but he missed several chances in Saturday 's 0-0 draw at Chelsea . |
| 20 | Brenda Sisterson , 45 , of Ingleside Road , North Shields , died in hospital at the weekend after being knocked down by a bus as she crossed John Dobson Street in Newcastle city centre . |
| 21 | The successful launch of the DTI 's two year HCI technology transfer programme ‘ Usability Now ! ’ is now being followed up by a series of half-day management briefings . |
| 22 | Just how many are helped is a question now being taken up by the Lawson Wilkins ; : Society a group of paediatric endocrinologists . |
| 23 | It 's now being taken over by the new Historic Chapels Trust . |
| 24 | And what about wee Norrie Lamont , the so-called Chancellor of the Exchequer , now being set up by Downing Street as a future former Chancellor in an attempt to save Honest John 's career ? |
| 25 | Suffice it to say that Labour 's internal opinion-polling , now being carried out by NOP , is being ‘ front-loaded ’ to give more information through this spring . |
| 26 | As the closing date for nominations approached , a remarkable hothouse atmosphere prevailed at Westminster , fuelled by the intense media scrutiny and the active canvassing now being carried out by both sides . |
| 27 | I hope the Noble Earl will be able to give me an answer in perhaps in correspondence following this , also the date upon which at they were informed , because I am sure he will realise the implications as far as the rest of the British Police Service are concerned that as from April of this year they will have to take on a heavy burden of work which is now being carried out by the British Transport Police . |
| 28 | An inquiry is now being carried out by the governor . |
| 29 | A joint inquiry into funding arrangements is now being carried out by the Department of Health and British Dental Association , and the findings will be announced in May . |
| 30 | Shoppers who were increasingly being scared off by the threat of town-centre misbehaviour and the fear of visiting football crowds , are flocking back under the watchful gaze of the cameras , which are monitored 24 hours a day by an Airdrie police team . |