Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of the male statues which are even now being exposed at Sydenham without adequate covering and which may be viewed by innocent girls ! " |
| 2 | In order to comply with the directions being given by Mr to our client to rearrange his finances , your client 's letter in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead in which to put your finances in order . |
| 3 | A critically-ill baby is being flown to Oxford from the war zone in Bosnia for an operation to save her life . |
| 4 | The aircraft were being flown to Prestwick from Brize Norton , Colerne and Little Rissington . |
| 5 | A Robinson R-22 helicopter was being flown in America on a clear day , with visibility 45 miles . |
| 6 | One is that it is n't all just a question of the Scottish hierarchy being thralled to Rome in such a way that it can not do what it wants . |
| 7 | The story of his being sacked from Cunard for his trade union activities seems to be untrue . |
| 8 | She loathed being parted from Ricky for a second , and Felicia , the ponies Ricky and Drew had lent her were still very green |
| 9 | ‘ A real war is being waged in Georgia by the government against its own people . |
| 10 | Sinatra blew his top and accused both Lawfords of covering up what he saw as a vendetta being waged by Bobby against him . |
| 11 | SHARES in Waste Management International , the waste disposal group being floated in London by its American parent , were priced a shade lower than expected at 585p yesterday , before jumping to 612p on the grey market . |
| 12 | A crude attempt to smear the Speaker of the House , Tom Foley , as a homosexual , led to Atwater being reprimanded by Bush in June 1989 [ see p. 36730 ] . |
| 13 | The UK ambassador to Iraq , Harold Walker , returned to Baghdad after being withdrawn in March over the Bazoft affair [ see p. 37322 ] . |
| 14 | They feel that Shetlanders do not appreciate the sacrifices they are making : instead they suspect they are being regarded by Shetlanders as a nuisance not really to be welcomed and as far as possible to be ignored altogether . |
| 15 | The new operating system is planned for spring 1994 , and will is being developed by Harris for both the RS/6000 and its own Night Hawk machines . |
| 16 | The new operating system is planned for spring 1994 , and is being developed by Harris for both the RS/6000 and its own Night Hawk machines . |
| 17 | Much of what Gassendi says about the acquisition and formation of ideas became commonplace among later empiricists , being developed by Locke in more detail and at much greater length . |
| 18 | The processes involved in the making of integrated circuits fall within the province of patent law and the first patents for integrated circuits were filed in the late 1950s , the most important one being developed by Noyce of the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation in 1959 . |
| 19 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 20 | Many adults are being baptised in Russia at the moment . |
| 21 | Then the prime minister 's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog . |
| 22 | According to Lord Elphinstone , the candidacy of Buchanan of Aucheneen was being pressed by Dundas of Lethem , one of Montrose 's friends , a gentleman who does not seem to have hesitated to make use of the duke 's name in the course of his canvass for Aucheneen . |
| 23 | Yesterday , deputy Prime Minister Dick Spring said the envoy concept was not being pressed by Dublin at present . |
| 24 | The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps . |
| 25 | The idea of being marooned at Balmoral for months on end is her vision of purgatory . |
| 26 | The Branch has been approached by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland to provide a speaker for a forthcoming two-day Seminar being organised by ICAS for its members and being held on 23 and 24 April at the Stakis Hydro Hotel , Dunkeld , Perthshire . |
| 27 | A DAY trip to Lapland to meet Santa is being organised by Airtours on December 13 . |
| 28 | It is , however , used at the moment in North Wales and being considered in Scotland near Loch Lomond , as a method of storing energy . |
| 29 | The 23-year-old midfielder was seen to be verbally at odds with his father after being substituted at Reading on Sunday during Birmingham 's 1–0 FA Cup defeat . |
| 30 | The mob was demanding the eviction of Meshketians who had been temporarily rehoused in Parkent after being evacuated in February from other parts of Tashkent oblast ( region ) to escape pogroms against their communities . |