Example sentences of "[is] being [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's being run by the car parts company Unipart , to give specialist training for its four thousand employees . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's being ridden by the owner . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Um I think um where I 've seen things that er discussed under the heading of child sex abuse erm er it 's often the case that um y'know maybe in some families you find the situation where there 's a daughter who 's being abused by the father and then when the brother gets old enough to take an interest in sexuality , he joins in as well sort of thing and it 's er y'know it 's like there 's two blokes abusing the girl . |
| 10 | It 's being done by the Hudlin brothers who did House Party . |
| 11 | So are we actually putting our feet into what 's being done by the district councils over c thirteen . |
| 12 | Because it 's being betrayed by the people who are meant to govern it . |
| 13 | A fourteen-year-old offender who 's had three holidays in Spain this year at tax payers ' expense has had a court case adjourned because he 's being interviewed by the police on other matters . |
| 14 | Yes well it 's being suggested by the plaintiff that in fact it was shoved into the back behind his right ear like like I 'm doing with my fingers . |
| 15 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 16 | Composite eighteen is being supported by the Executive all those in favour against that 's carried motion three one six reference is being sought does Birmingham agree ? |
| 17 | Should this scenario happen , crucial to its success would be changing the image of the area , and a key part in this is being played by the city 's successful bid for the World Student Games in 1990 . |
| 18 | A key-role in the tree planting is being played by the farm Systems Development Corporation . |
| 19 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 20 | The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 21 | The machine is being inspected by the makers . |
| 22 | The total cost of the project is £4 million , to which the City Council and the European Regional Development Fund contributed £1.5 million each and the rest is being raised by the museum . |
| 23 | The Court of Session action is being raised by the lord provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff-Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson , in an attempt to reassert their rights as co-trustees of the Torrie Collection . |
| 24 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 25 | The convention on climate change is being blocked by the US on the grounds that global warming remains unproven . |
| 26 | The massive increase in the number of GCSE candidates opting to continue in education is being trumpeted by the Tories as a success story . |
| 27 | Along with the thousands of appeal letters sent as a result of Amnesty 's campaign , perhaps the clearest direct pressure is being exerted by the Sri Lanka Aid Consortium , made up of donor governments and multi-lateral institutions . |
| 28 | Now a similar fascination is being exerted by the ongoing Barnett Newman drama as the City Council of Amsterdam have asked for yet another laboratory analysis of his ‘ Who 's afraid of Red , Yellow and Blue III ’ ( 1967 ) which was the subject of an ill-fated restoration by Daniel Goldreyer ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 15 , February 1992 , p. 2 and No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 2 ) . |
| 29 | The cost of the operation , which was not disclosed , is being met by the Irish Government . |
| 30 | The bill for the royal party 's four-day stay — said to be up to £24,000 a night — is being met by the Korean government . |