Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ebenezer was dimly aware that he was being carried up the narrow staircase . |
| 2 | Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb . |
| 3 | agree to it being handed in the next day as opposed to the next lesson ? |
| 4 | Karen Anderson ( LibDem ) is 20/1 and no bets are being taken on the Green candidate Steven Kenwright . |
| 5 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |