Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |
| 2 | They 've changed it again as well , now , now instead of the er , the white ball being placed anywhere in the anywhere behind the black line at the top . |
| 3 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 4 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 5 | that the swimming pool was being filled up in the |
| 6 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 7 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 8 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 9 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 10 | Hollywood was scared , not simply because of the threat to personal life and limb , but by the implications being meted out in the press which followed two distinct inferences : first that Polanski through his and his dead friends ' involvement with drugs had brought this tragedy upon his own house , and , second , that the ‘ new ’ Hollywood in general must accept some guilt through its current fascination with violence , drugs , sex and the lifestyle of what appeared — in the eyes of the establishment — to be a mortally sick section of society . |
| 11 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 12 | In addition , more flexible , non legislative , measures for non-scheduled sites are being considered possibly in the form of a Code of Practice . |
| 13 | Bye-laws 17 , 18 , and 22 deal with back-siphoning : wherever a cold water supply is connected to a flexible hose , the law insists that the tap or outlet is fitted with a non-return valve to prevent contaminating liquids being sucked back in the mains system by any loss of pressure . |
| 14 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 15 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |
| 16 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 17 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 18 | Good estate management should result in the landlord maintaining an even balance of trades but the following clause is nevertheless prudent : Not to permit or suffer any [ adjoining or neighbouring premises in the ownership or control of the Landlord ] [ other premises in the Centre ] to be used for the business from time to time being carried on in the Premises |
| 19 | Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry |
| 20 | Yet another youth project of a rather specialist nature is being carried out in the north east area . |
| 21 | In addition to the work being carried out in the UNEP HQ at Nairobi and in the GEMS/GRID site in Geneva , a series of GRID regional nodes are now being set up world-wide , each equipped with the same hardware and software and local subsets of the data . |
| 22 | Official statements said that no art restoration work was being carried out in the Chapel at the time of the fire . |
| 23 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 24 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |
| 25 | Most of the 38 protocols approved for genetic therapy are being carried out in the United States on patients with cancer . |
| 26 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
| 27 | Christ 's will for his Church , that they should be one ( John 17:21 ) , was being carried out in the Christian community at Antioch . |
| 28 | We agree with CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 29 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 30 | Since then most archaeological work has been concentrated on the fortifications , with all too little excavation being carried out in the interior , mainly because of the presence of modern buildings . |