Example sentences of "[being] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we going to withdraw from the risk of being contaminated by the modern alternatives to following Jesus ? |
| 2 | Her predecessor , William Vander Zalm , had resigned after being criticized by the provincial conflict-of-interest commissioner for his role in the sale of his family-owned amusement park , Fantasy Gardens , to a Taiwanese investor . |
| 3 | Bu but it , it 's , it 's momentum is being given by the poor . |
| 4 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 5 | Amnesty claimed to have " compelling evidence " confirming that Iraqi soldiers had looted incubators from three of the main hospitals in Kuwait City , thereby causing the deaths premature babies , the number of such deaths being given by the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society as 300 . |
| 6 | They joined 32 others already sentenced [ see p. 37959 ] and whose appeals were currently being heard by the Federal Court of Appeal . |
| 7 | This apparently was a common female ploy , the swag being hidden by the voluminous skirts of the period . |
| 8 | This will mean conceding the impossibility , whatever the strict legal interpretation , of farm land ever being treated by the urban population in the same way as a factory or even their own back gardens . |
| 9 | What we were saying is that so long as those with parental responsibilities consent to J. being treated by the medical staff of the health authority , he must be treated in accordance with their clinical judgment . |
| 10 | That sort of personal approach to the individual citizen is , more than anything else , likely to outrage the individual citizen who is being treated by the national health service . |
| 11 | In the context of the first part of the hon. Gentleman 's question , I must ask him to appreciate that one of the important matters now being examined by the chief executives of the agencies is the issue of greater pay flexibility and performance pay , so that better results can be achieved , both by individuals and in terms of customer service , from a given amount of pay . |
| 12 | The third Russian Unix conference is being arranged by the Soviet Unix Users Group and will be held in St Petersburg between September 22 and 24 : representatives of the European association of Unix users , EurOpen , and the US organisations Usenix and UniForum were all invited to take part in the proceedings . |
| 13 | It also had to keep the numbers of capped authorities to manageable proportions to prevent civil servants from being overloaded by the administrative burden of determining — and redetermining in the event of appeal — rate levels under the selective scheme . |
| 14 | The Wollo Muslims , who were being persecuted by the Shoan army , had attacked Dessie and , though defeated , were still raiding at large . |
| 15 | Tudjman , who had urged local leaders in Trogir ( west of Split ) on May 5 to demonstrate at the naval base to show the world their support for the battle being waged by the Croatian leadership , was accused by the Defence Secretariat of inflaming sentiments against the army . |
| 16 | From this source the water — needed by the whole Institution — is drawn , the supply to the tank being furnished by the New River Company . ’ |
| 17 | A list of plants that recycle plastic waste is now being checked by the German quality-control institute for the DSD . |
| 18 | I would like to think that she died still being floated by the giant kite , that she went round the world and rose higher as she died of starvation and dehydration and so grew less weighty still , to become , eventually , a tiny skeleton riding the jetstreams of the planet ; a sort of Flying Dutchwoman . |
| 19 | There are 2 ½ divisions of Indian troops still in the north and east of Sri Lanka — up to 30,000 men — and little prospect of the withdrawal being completed by the original target date of December 31 . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend will appreciate that the investigation of anything to do with the Maxwell empire is being undertaken by the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 21 | Recent initiatives in this country include the current survey of teacher training courses being undertaken by the Equal Opportunities Commission , and the Schools Curriculum Development Committee 's work in this area which resulted in the ‘ Genderwatch ’ pack of self-assessment schedules for use in schools : this pack would provide valuable support material for arts teachers wishing to monitor this aspect of their work . |
| 22 | A large and increasing proportion of afforestation is being undertaken by the private sector , which includes both large landed estates with long traditions of involvement in forestry and also forestry investment groups which have become active in recent years . |
| 23 | The vestments were more elaborately designed and embroidered , much of the work being undertaken by the Religious and ladies who could devote hours of leisure to this work . |
| 24 | A STUDY being undertaken by the Welsh Office , Dyfed County Council and Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion into trunk roads in the Aberystwyth area will be the subject of a public exhibition at Aberystwyth for three days from July 8 . |
| 25 | This seemed to be further corroborated when we were invited to join the second phase of a research project being undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research and the Further Education Unit . |
| 26 | An investigation into the use and effects of synthetic gill nets around the coast of England and Wales is being undertaken by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 27 | Rev. Cahal Daly , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor , all called for an independent public inquiry into the killings , but Brooke declared that he had every confidence in the investigation being undertaken by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 28 | The offer of further help was widely interpreted as attempt to improve the chances of the treaty being ratified by the requisite two-thirds majority of the 23-member Philippine Senate . |
| 29 | Instead of all the new controls being policed by the National Rivers Authority some of the responsibility was being handed over to Her Majesty 's Inpsector of Pollution , with decisions being taken by the Department of Environment . |
| 30 | This scheme is one of five parallel graded assessment schemes being developed by the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) , and the University of London School Examinations Board ( ULSEB ) in cooperation with other bodies . |