Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a North London timber yard , the body of the armed robber was still being examined by a police forensic team late this afternoon . |
| 2 | The effects under each of these headings of various possible Community rules for energy taxation would then be quantified drawing both on existing research and available data , and , where appropriate , making use of tax policy simulation models for the UK and other member states being developed under a SPES project coordinated from IFS . |
| 3 | CHAMPIONS Leeds face an FA inquiry after being reported by a police officer who was shocked by their four-letter tirade . |
| 4 | Within minutes of being trapped behind a 20-feet thick wall of coal , steel and rubble completely filling the 12-feet high and 16-feet wide tunnel , they were in contact with colleagues on the opposite side using the undamaged Tannoy system which runs along the wall of the roadway . |
| 5 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 6 | Editorials regularly refer to the magazine being produced by an all-women team , from the Editress and her fair , brilliant and chivalrous staff , down to the merry-faced ruddy-cheeked little lassie that in quainter and ruder hives of literature would be represented by a grim-visaged imp in paper-cap and corduroys yclept a " Printer 's ( This was typical of its style . ) |
| 7 | By some time in 1940 a cloth version was being worn as a topi flash ; and some time thereafter , on the left sleeve only , by 7 Armd . |
| 8 | The 20lb Semtex device was planted beneath an operating theatre in a duct between civilian and military hospital wings after being smuggled through a children 's ward . |
| 9 | Mittal asserted that he had been abducted from outside his home and later beaten and tortured with electric shocks before being left at a police station . |
| 10 | A man is being questioned at a police station in London . |
| 11 | He was being questioned at a police station in Bradford where the investigation is based . |
| 12 | He was being questioned at a police station in Bradford where the investigation , which is being headed by Detective Superintendent Trevor Wilkinson , is based . |
| 13 | There is little sign of comital residences in civitates , nor any evidence of a comital archive being kept in a civitas ( as they still had occasionally been in seventh-century Gaul ) . |
| 14 | Mr Lorenzo contends he fired in self-defence because he was about to be run down by the motorcycle , which was being chased by a police car . |
| 15 | ‘ Uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ means a zebra crossing at which traffic is not for the time being controlled by a police constable in uniform or by a traffic warden . |
| 16 | Johnson is now being held at a police station in London . |
| 17 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |