Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 2 | By 300 the West added the birth of Jesus integrated into a solar calendar by being placed at the winter solstice . |
| 3 | Secondly , the third-floor accommodation , lit only by the small clerestory windows of the nave ( composed of shallower paired lancets ) , managed to obtain the necessary amount of daylight from the glazing being placed at the rear of the original traceried stonework where the splayed internal window-revels generate an area exposed to daylight which is larger than the window area seen from outside ( Fig 46 ) . |
| 4 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 5 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 6 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |
| 7 | Police were investigating reports of windows being broken at the pub . |
| 8 | After being enrolled at the university at the age of seventeen , Freud studied physiology , biology and anatomy . |
| 9 | Now she 's the first patient being treated at the hospital 's new dermatology building . |
| 10 | Diane Wright , of The Greenway , Dovecote , Liverpool , was being treated at the hospital for anorexia . |
| 11 | Last night she was still being treated at the Countess of Chester hospital and under sedation . |
| 12 | If both , in what combination ? etc. — we shall refer to a pseudo policy rule , of which the simplest example is , is the unemployment rate which is expected to prevail in period t , this expectation being formed at the end of period t - 1 with the aid of a knowledge of . |
| 13 | A spokesman said a substantial amount of Derv was spilled while a rail tanker was being filled at the North Tees road and rail terminal . |
| 14 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 15 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 16 | Winter gear is being readied at the moment , but it will be hard , all the same , travelling in such weather . ’ |
| 17 | This activity , along with the History of Ageing ( see C below ) is being undertaken at the Group by the Rank Xerox Unit of ageing . |
| 18 | The following information was collected : patient 's age and gender ; time and place of accident ; activity being undertaken at the time ; and type of accident and injury sustained . |
| 19 | The experimental GROPE system , which gives tactile feedback , is being developed at the University of North Carolina . |
| 20 | To make the process as uniform as possible the professionals will use standardised methods covering a range of possible problems , such as those included in the Camberwell assessment of need , which is being developed at the Institute of Psychiatry ( box 4 ) . |
| 21 | Hunterston storekeeper David Frew noticed the number of cans of soft drinks being consumed at the power station , particularly during the outage . |
| 22 | in respect of self-employed persons , in receipt of National Insurance Unemployment Benefit or in the absence of the entitlement to such benefit provides satisfactory evidence of being registered at the Department of Employment ( DHSS in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 23 | This is showing you that the sentence or command line is a comment or reminder , and is not being implicated at the moment . |
| 24 | All of these different circumstances , with the added natural factor of increased birth-rates in a non-serf-owning environment , resulted in Siberia being inhabited at the end of the eighteenth century by an overwhelmingly Russian peasant population . |
| 25 | In the World Cup matches against France and Scotland , Richard Hill was being hounded at the base of the scrum . |
| 26 | The deal with Sainsbury will result in Cashline terminals being installed at the company 's supermarkets in Bridgend ( Mid Glamorgan ) and Totton ( Hampshire ) . |
| 27 | I remember being amazed at the size of the placenta , which resembled a football and the lack of discomfort which accompanied its arrival . |
| 28 | Schemes are , however , being considered at the Bay of Fundy , which has 37 sites suitable for tidal power schemes , and the Severn in the UK , although the economic viability of the latter is still uncertain . |
| 29 | We ha we have to look at the environmental consequences , you stick a barrage that size across erm a large er river system you 've got to ask what happens upstream erm and of course Bristol for example is a port , how to get the ships in and out is another problem but er these are being considered at the moment and there 's quite a lot of mo money going into , into studies but no commitment yet as to actually , to actually build it . |
| 30 | Evidence for the importance of this ‘ rural-urban shift ’ can be found in the fact that London sustained such heavy population loss in the 1970s despite being located at the heart of the most dynamic region in the UK . |