Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 2 | Ironically , it was the eventual failure of the gas engine that led to the introduction of electrical power , the wheel finally going out of use in 1962 and sadly , being broken up in 1964 . |
| 3 | The bulk pack being broken down into smaller units for re-sale to other parents with the school taking a percentage of the discount . |
| 4 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 5 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 6 | The law protects tenants from being ripped off by rack-rent thugs . |
| 7 | Also blood , and menstrual cramps and the thought of labour pains and being stitched up and being woken in the night by a shitty damp bundle and having my tits tugged and bitten , and being mauled around by macho chauvinist piglings who call themselves obstetricians . |
| 8 | They say reading and writing tuition is being squeezed out by other subjects . |
| 9 | But by the 1930s the Gloucestershire Old Spot was being squeezed out by faster growing modern hybrids . |
| 10 | There was some activity , and the fires were clearly being stoked up with fresh wood to give more light ; and lit lamps were moving here and there . |
| 11 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 12 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 13 | they were being picked up by two Commandos and dumped on the grass verge . |
| 14 | In a similar way , he developed a totally new technique for studying branching fibres by using pairs of fluorescent dyes , with the potential for being picked up by separate branches . |
| 15 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |
| 16 | A worm , he does n't like it , being picked up like that does he ? |
| 17 | Despite being picked out in this way there were still failures and difficulties . |
| 18 | This test highlights the necessity to understand the original context of a belief and make sure that something is not being wrenched out of that to a setting where it does not apply . |
| 19 | The Daimler-Benz study claims that carbon dioxide levels will actually increase by 10 per cent over the period because control efforts are being cancelled out by increased traffic volumes . |
| 20 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 21 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 22 | Thus even these reduced targets were not met : actual commissioning levels were 37 per cent below target in 1949 , 19 per cent below in 1950 and 42 per cent below in 1951 , with the programmed stations for these years being rolled over into 1952 and 1953 . |
| 23 | It will be tested on TVS before being rolled out across other regions , and success is being monitored on a cost-per-response basis through an 0800 number . |
| 24 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 25 | Happily , the message is also being carried back to Japanese manufacturers . |
| 26 | they usually involve a significant part of the work being carried out without close supervision ; |
| 27 | On the same day a group of 26 Federal Assembly deputies sent a protest to the European Commission for Human Rights about the method of screening used , which was described as being carried out without proper legal basis . |
| 28 | Research is being carried out through 16 months ' fieldwork , using the standard anthropological techniques of participant observation and intensive interviewing , in four sample fishing communities in the Gothenburg area , and in the offices of fishermen 's organisations and government bureaux in Gothenburg . |
| 29 | In quantifying the UK 's foreign trade it is easy to think of it as being carried out between independent British and foreign firms . |
| 30 | Formalin fixed wax embedded sections ( 4 cm ) of the colonic tissues were dewaxed in xylene , rehydrated in alcohol and spirit ( 95% alcohol ) , each step being carried out for five minutes at room temperature , then washed in cold water . |