Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it that they are being manipulated by people in the soft wood trade … to tarnish the good name of tropical hard wood ? |
| 2 | Instead of the compensation payable to him being limited to £15,000 as the maximum amount of compensation payable to any one depositor , each of his five assignees could look to the fund for payment of £15,000 in respect of the £20,000 share of the deposit assigned to him . |
| 3 | With £10.8m cash under its belt , and earnings up 7 p.c. to 12½p a share , the payout is being lifted from 4.31p to 43/4p , with a 3.3p final on July 7 . |
| 4 | The dividend total is being lifted from 17.44p to 18p , with a 12.33p final on July 24 . |
| 5 | The definitions contained in this dictionary are voluminous descriptions of the etymology of the words , the dictionary being designed for people with a deep interest in the English language . |
| 6 | Compressed air , stored by a beautiful little machine on the premises , is admitted into this cylinder , the connection being made by means of an ordinary Westinghouse joint from one of the many rubber pipes leading from the air cistern ( which is eighteen feet long by four feet diameter ) . |
| 7 | The Government has stuffed the authority so full of cash -it is being privatised with £242m of cash in its balance sheet ( equivalent to more than £140 for every person in the region ) — that it does not need any medium-term credit facilities . |
| 8 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 9 | Lotus Development Corp says it has sold more than 125,000 units worldwide of its new dynamic spreadsheet , Improv for Windows , in the first month since it became available in retail outlets : Improve is being offered at $100 until May 31 . |
| 10 | ‘ As I 'm a stranger here , I do n't mind being shown to people like a strange wild animal . |
| 11 | Rance tried to convince Aung San of British goodwill but he replied that when Dorman-Smith had first returned ‘ there was more goodwill being shown by Burmese to the British than ever before ’ . |
| 12 | Guerrillas in Kashmir used rockets for the first time on June 19 , in an attack on two waterfront hotels in Srinagar which were being used as barracks by Indian security forces . |
| 13 | It 's a hostel which was originally being used by people with a mental illness which is being converted for elderly people moving out into the community . |
| 14 | The number of mills that could work effectively on the same stream was limited , which led to smaller streams being used by means of building dams to create mill-ponds . |
| 15 | I noted that Size One Free Range eggs offered by Marks & Spencer are being retailed at £2.30 per dozen , representing a difference of 190% mark-up between the producer and the supermarket . |
| 16 | FILM star Whoopi Goldberg is being sued for £130m by another actress who claims she stole the idea for her hit film Sister Act . |
| 17 | Mr Scott , who runs Elegant Homes from an office in Whessoe Road , Darlington , is being sued for £68,000 by Stockton-based CPH Mechanical Services , which crashed with an estimated deficiency of £162,000 . |
| 18 | Southern Water is being sued for £20,000 by a windsurfer who claims he contracted Hepatitis-A from the sea off Eastbourne , Sussex . |
| 19 | MODEL Paula Hamilton is being sued for £17,000 by a firm of lawyers . |
| 20 | They are still being sued for £180,000 by a Los Angeles-based helipcoter firm for loss of income while assisting television coverage . |
| 21 | Ramzan is being sued for £30,000 by a building society . |
| 22 | And as I say , some absolutely precious quarry is being stalked by means of Lyamshin and Mrs Virginsky . |
| 23 | ‘ Old age will be quite bad enough without being patronised by people like that . |
| 24 | Even in order to get this far , I had to believe that what I was being told by people about their experiences and feelings was the truth , or essentially the truth . |
| 25 | Net assets per share grew from 169p to 212p and the dividend is being raised from 1.55p to 1.75p , with a 1p final payable on May 29 . |
| 26 | Men with £3 — £4 were probably smallholders , but , although £2 attracted the same rate of tax , men at this level tended to overlap with those beneath , their assessments being reduced to £1 on some occasions . |
| 27 | Public sector support for provincial services is being reduced by £77million to £345 million by 1992/93 , from almost £550 million in 1985/86 . |
| 28 | This was and is a strong motivator for most IBMers , though no one ever discerned an IBMer 's workload being reduced by 10% as a result . |
| 29 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 30 | Readers will note a small discrepancy between the total given in the graph and the latest figure , a result of some services for 1990 being notified to headquarters after the preparation of the Annual Report . |