Example sentences of "[is] [being] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not getting the best of scoring service at the moment … he s being used as the target . |
| 2 | If it 's being run for the short-term , they reckon , that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism . |
| 3 | It 's being run by the car parts company Unipart , to give specialist training for its four thousand employees . |
| 4 | And it , it has huge implications for the Communist Party that look a rural revolution is taking place and it 's being led by the peasantry . |
| 5 | Objectors say a holiday village that 's being planned near a historic Cotswold village could ruin the whole character of the area . |
| 6 | The incident 's being regarded as an opportunist theft and it 's unlikely anything taken would be of any use to a drug abuser . |
| 7 | It 's being ridden by the owner . |
| 8 | On this , consideration should be given to the position of the Chairman of the Committee : to the desirability that he or she should be full-time , with a more critical and independent role ; and , in recognition of the Committee 's independence in operation from the Government Departments principally constituting it , to the Chairman 's being appointed by the Prime Minister and being a member of the Cabinet Office . |
| 9 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 10 | It 's being fed into a shredding machine as part of the city 's re-cycling scheme . |
| 11 | The National Hockey Centre 's being built near the city centre and Britain 's coach for one is happy that Milton Keynes is to become hockey 's equivalent of Lord 's and Twickenham . |
| 12 | The tanker was searched by coastguards protected by the marines from H M S Brazen and was found to be carrying stores in breach of the UN embargo ; it 's being diverted to a nearby port on the coast of Amman for further investigations . |
| 13 | Well , I ca n't let you listen to what 's being said in the entire house without having access to the entire house . |
| 14 | Life there is more comfortable and humane than the old-style prisons , and it 's being seen as a model for the future . |
| 15 | It 's being seen as a first step towards opting out of the N H S. |
| 16 | He 's being treated for a punctured lung at the town 's general hospital . |
| 17 | A disabled teenager who 's being treated by a Russian physiotherapist has been told his trainer must go home because his visa has run out . |
| 18 | And er he 's being followed by an unmarked police car . |
| 19 | A spectacular opening to the £65,000 clinic designed as a counselling centre and to treat children with special needs ; the clinic 's being named after the rock musician Steve Winwood , who raised funds for the centre where his wife Gina is a voluntary helper . |
| 20 | While the village unit remained small there was less chance of a decision 's being imposed by the community 's more influential members , and in any case the imposition of status and ranking tended to reduce the passive acceptance of inferiority which might have attended its acquisition through achievement or wealth . |
| 21 | A woman 's being questioned about the attempted murder of a man who was dragged underneath a car . |
| 22 | Wellingborough against Brackley in the Hillier Cup , that 's being played at the Dog and Duck ground , I would imagine it 's blow football in a pub , and finally , in the Overton Papers combination , pretty boring this one — Watford Reserves against Oxford Reserves . |
| 23 | For Japanese to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin , despite Japan 's success in proving herself the military and political equal of other powers , implied the virtual impossibility of Japan 's being accepted as a full equal by the industrialized nations of the West . |
| 24 | I 'm here for a case that 's being heard in the Appeal Court … ’ |
| 25 | The night of the Spring Ball arrives , Carrie looks beautiful , she 's being escorted by the nicest possible person and then they get elected as King and Queen of the Spring Ball ! |
| 26 | Her supporters included Thomas Hess , Meyer Schapiro , Leo Steinberg , Harold Rosenberg , and Peter Selz , and their intervention , asserting that Canaday had offended Ashton 's ‘ rights and responsibilities as a critic ’ , resulted in Canaday 's being censured by the American art critics ' association . |
| 27 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
| 28 | to find out why she 's being kept in the dark and |
| 29 | Only grey mud is visible on the drill pipes at the moment and that 's being pumped into the well to bring up the rock fragments from below . |
| 30 | Once they 've , you 've got their clothing off they can probably stand in a shower , but remember to take their boots off or whatever or shoes of because if you do n't they 're going to stand in a , in a dilute solution of whatever it is that 's being absorbed by the skin . |