Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Jonathan Thomas Carr felt offended by what he considered was the ugly and tasteless housing being erected in the London suburbs , so he produced a scheme to create a garden suburb of Houses without basements , and of character within reach of people with moderate means , yet at the same time , retaining existing trees wherever possible . |
| 2 | Once assembled , the details were passed through a multiple drum-sanding machine and sent for staining and polishing before being erected in the carriage . |
| 3 | Eventually he was rewarded for his long and faithful service by being placed in the heavens as the constellation of Aquarius . |
| 4 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |
| 5 | According to the Bible , Samuel 1:5 , the Ark was desecrated by being placed in the Temple of Dagan , and Samson destroyed both the temple and the statue of the god in retribution before dying there himself . |
| 6 | Initially parents need to learn to smile and look or touch their child when food is being placed in the child 's mouth and also for chewing and swallowing ( McGuinn Koepke and Thyer 1985 ) . |
| 7 | If this area is not available an alternative pavilion is specially set apart to the south or north of the temple , the stone or wood being placed in the centre of this structure and worshipped with flowers and various other offerings . |
| 8 | Their development is strengthened , not weakened , by being placed in the proximity of other disciplines under the epistemic umbrella offered by the university ( and its sister institutions ) . |
| 9 | A EUROPEAN ruling today pushed Britain closer to being placed in the dock over the killing by SAS soldiers in Gibraltar of three IRA terrorists . |
| 10 | The judge , who criticised the police for the way they conducted their inquiry , read out a note from the jury : ‘ We believe Sheffield social services department are partly to blame for Mr and Mrs Hanby being placed in the predicament they are in today ’ . |
| 11 | The rats eventually managed to press the lever very quickly after being placed in the box , in order to receive their reward . |
| 12 | Under the banner of industrial democracy various changes have been proposed in the structure of the organisation , decision-making and ownership of companies , involving things such as compulsory councils and co-determination at the shop-floor level , the representation of workers on the board , and most recently ( in Sweden and Holland ) the setting up of a union-controlled wage-earners ' fund by capitalising a percentage of pretax profits , with the newly issued shares being placed in the fund and used to acquire interests in other companies and to supplement wages in the lowest-paid jobs . |
| 13 | I liked being recognized in the pub afterwards , and made myself conspicuous in case anyone wanted my autograph . |
| 14 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 15 | Your firm 's methods are always being exposed in The Times . |
| 16 | In fact , the fibreglass decor was artificially aged by being exposed in the desert for a week before fitting , by the first owners , emigrants from Europe who had reason to foresee the nostalgia boom . |
| 17 | The bloody girl was in Bali , hiding , and trying to come to terms with being exposed in the News of the World . |
| 18 | More importantly , the ending escapes the cliché in countless films of a marriage being halted in the nick of time although it most resembles the climax of a 1928 Harold Lloyd comedy , Speedy . |
| 19 | The person responsible for the running of the 160-year-old bank , Sergeant-at-Arms Jack Russ , had resigned on March 12 after being criticized in the Ethics Committee 's report for the manner in which he had administered the bank . |
| 20 | These gardens attract many visitors by car and coach , being listed in the tourist books as gardens to visit . |
| 21 | It was a group which came together in 1972 in an attempt to focus attention on the severity and inconsistencies of sentences being given in the courts to loyalists charged with politically motivated offences in contrast to those being given to republicans . |
| 22 | Full details of the NVQs are being given in the CIOB 's continuing series of seminars for centres and other interested organisations . |
| 23 | Most aid is being given in the form of bilateral projects . |
| 24 | When viewed in this light it should not be surprising that the loudest , most powerful voices being heard in the name of animal welfare — at least in the United States — are those who have a vested interest in the perpetuation of animal exploitation . |
| 25 | ‘ These are encouraging signs that the message is being heard in the East , ’ he says , ‘ but this is a race against time and the odds of winning do not look favourable . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm here for a case that 's being heard in the Appeal Court … ’ |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the collective clout of famous names like Pamela 's , Rula 's and Twiggy 's , heading a list which also features Victoria Wood , Kiri te Kanawa , Ben Kingsley , Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach , Linda McCartney , Shakira and Michael Caine — to name but a handful — means that the women ( and the men ) in the street who supports Parents for Safe Food 's Campaign at last stands a chance of being heard in the food forum . |
| 28 | Socialist and Communist influence in the universities increased rapidly , one fifth of the undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge being enrolled in the ULF in 1939 . |
| 29 | Another advantage of being enrolled in the University Ballet School was that his tuition was free . |
| 30 | The man , who's(18)eighteen , is being treated in the Stoke Mandeville Hospital for sixty percent burns . |