Example sentences of "[being] [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Futures contracts are traded on a central regulated exchange by open outcry , whereby traders congregate periodically in a pit on the floor of the exchange to buy and sell contracts , with every negotiated price being heard by other traders . |
| 2 | In childhood , traumas have a sexual and aggressive component , the two not being distinguished by young children — the primal scene , when seen by a child under five , is taken to be an attack by father on mother . |
| 3 | Time series data can be represented graphically in a line diagram of observations plotted against time as horizontal axis , successive points being joined by straight lines . |
| 4 | The package was last night being examined by forensic experts . |
| 5 | Three other people including a woman , all believed to be from the one family who were arrested at the scene are now being questioned by police , while three rifles recovered in a follow up search are being examined by forensic experts . |
| 6 | The rule is that EC competition law takes precedence over UK law , though this has not prevented merger cases being examined by both jurisdictions ( e.g. British Airways/British Caledonian , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Mr Balfour had ridden on a motor car from Downing Street to the House of Commons , the start being witnessed by several members of the government . |
| 8 | Since then , every aspect of both the US and British charts has been investigated , one remaining gap being filled by 40 Years Of NME Charts , the week by week UK rundown just published by Boxtree Press . |
| 9 | Among the ideas being floated by those owners who see television as their saviour are an expansion of the National and American leagues from two divisions each to three divisions each ; the introduction of regular season games between clubs in the two leagues ; and the involvement of eight clubs , rather than the present four , in play-off games at the end of the season . |
| 10 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 11 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 12 | Hence the project will include empirical work associated with some of the applied economics research being undertaken by other members of the Economics Department at Southampton . |
| 13 | The sunken garden is just one of a range of projects being undertaken by 60 students and seven college staff in order to forge stronger links between the college and the community . |
| 14 | Secondly , as Smart points out , later in the 1950s prostitution came to be linked with fears about immigration , not only , she suggests , because prostitutes were often linked with pimps who were , for example , Maltese , West Indian or Italian , but because it was also believed , for instance by the Wolfenden Committee and many in Parliament , that the ranks of prostitutes were being swollen by large numbers of immigrant women . |
| 15 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 16 | Whole communities are being shaken by large numbers of deaths among young adults and young children . |
| 17 | Whereas the Albemarle Report had seen them as shallow and frivolous , as examples of young people being manipulated by commercial interests , or even as hooliganism , the CCCS saw them as important and creative in their own right — as young people expressing their own point of view . |
| 18 | Indeed , Mr Mann fears being assassinated by extremist Sikhs who shelter across the border in Pakistan . |
| 19 | The history department can then draw on the skills and processes being developed by other departments and extend them . |
| 20 | The art of mime was developed by the commedia dell'arte and is still being developed by such artists as Marcel Marceau and the mime theatres of Poland and Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | Both the BMW and Nissan car companies have announced prototype electric cars , to add to those already being developed by General Motors , Peugeot and Ford . |
| 22 | In a formal protest to the UN Security Council on Aug. 28 , the Kuwaiti government said that between 80 and 90 Iraqi troops had landed on the island in violation of Gulf ceasefire agreements [ see pp. 38164-65 ] before being repulsed by Kuwaiti coastguards . |
| 23 | It is tempting to imagine Jeremiah being received by Greek soldiers on Egyptian soil . |
| 24 | It is up to local authorities , but I believe the extra grant , the extra spending permission , means that a good quality education can be delivered to children in Wales er without it in any way being jeopardised by these proposals and I would illustrate later on in my speech that local government does have considerable flexibility to spend wisely and well and it has resources at its disposal to do a good job . |
| 25 | K.W.S. , at No. 10 with Rock Your Baby , missed a big party in their honour after being mobbed by hysterical fans . |
| 26 | If a large predatory bird sits in a conspicuous position it may find itself being mobbed by smaller birds , which call , display , and even attempt to dive-bomb it with pecking attacks . |
| 27 | Generally the commonest medium-sized brown owl ; predominantly nocturnal and most often detected in daytime hunched up in its tree roost , being mobbed by smaller birds , when can be distinguished from Barn Owl by dark brown face and underparts and from Long-eared and Short-eared Owls ( p. 179 ) by black eyes and lack of ear-tufts . |
| 28 | Although many board members reported being fascinated by recent developments , it was not uncommon to find those who failed to appreciate the amount of change since their own schooldays . |
| 29 | So , we constantly being plagued by tight deadlines erm which means that , when incurring a additional costs , from overtime work , the printers and many things like that . |
| 30 | 15.1 The Publisher shall publish the Work in the name of the Susan Parks , Gerard Bates , Mary Lee Wholey and Anna Thibeault as authors with reference to Concordia University , Center for Continuing Education , Montreal , Canada as the sponsor and in the event of the Work being revised by other persons in the future the Publisher shall be free to publish the Work in joint names or as it may consider appropriate in the circumstances without , however , omitting the name of the Proprietor . |