Example sentences of "being [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 2 | The dogs , mostly mongrels , undergo a four-month training programme before being placed with a deaf person . |
| 3 | The miniature was much damaged by being placed near a large stove in the house of the defendant who was nevertheless held not liable to L. |
| 4 | This bout of ‘ insanity ’ led to his being placed in a padded cell . |
| 5 | Most young girls of 25 would turn pale at the idea of being placed in a small Bolivian village where electricity and running water are next on the list of forthcoming attractions after sliced bread . |
| 6 | Most young girls of 25 would turn pale at the idea of being placed in a small Bolivian village where electricity and running water are next on the list of forthcoming attractions after sliced bread . |
| 7 | Ivor Stokle , 34 , a quantity surveyor , told a hushed Bristol Crown Court how he and his girlfriend , Mrs Pauline Leyshon , 43 , were kidnapped at knifepoint from a bungalow , beaten and bound before being placed in a blazing car which was pushed off a hillside . |
| 8 | The recommendation following upon an assessment might result in a child with a hearing disability being placed in a local primary school rather than in a special unit for children who are deaf or partially hearing . |
| 9 | A variety of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin , Sousa chinensis , is being threatened with extinction by the construction of Hong Kong 's new airport , just as it is being recognized as a distinct species . |
| 10 | We have then no reason to be surprised if the distinction between ascription and association in adjectives is overlooked or mistakenly supposed to be a matter of " nuances of meaning " , rather than being recognized as a systematic variation . |
| 11 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 12 | Dr John Bromley , senior partner at the practice , in Monkgate , York , admitted failing to prevent John being exposed to a hazardous substance and was fined £750 under the Health and Safety Act . |
| 13 | The burial customs of the Parsi sect involve dead bodies being exposed on a grating at the top of a Tower of Silence . |
| 14 | I had thought that the one good thing about being posted to a permanent , that is a pre-war , RAF Station , was that at least the Waaf quarters should consist of solid , brickbuilt barracks and not the Nissen huts which had been my home so far . |
| 15 | Initially the National Salvation Front ( NSF ) through its Council , represented by an Executive Bureau presided over by Ion Iliescu , assumed legislative authority , with executive responsibility being given to a new provisional Council of Ministers headed by Petre Roman . |
| 16 | This would seem to preclude any direction being given to a taxing master other than for a taxation on a standard basis or an indemnity basis . |
| 17 | Although initial studies focused on three area , all of them parallel to the existing runway , consideration is now being given to a non-parallel alignment . |
| 18 | Where an order for possession is made under Ord 24 ( " summary procedure " for recovery of land occupied without licence or consent ) , r 5(4) says that there is nothing which prevents the order for possession being given on a specific date as if the proceedings had been brought by action ( r 5(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 19 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 20 | To use a common denigrating quote of a ‘ PR job ’ , this implies that somehow the truth is being hidden behind a glossy or false facade . |
| 21 | Set a massive 440 after being dismissed for a paltry 96 in their first innings , the champions showed their pedigree by reaching the target with four wickets to spare . |
| 22 | At the risk of being treated as a terrible simplifier I venture to assert that the author of Daniel 7–12 was evidently writing or at least putting the last touches to his prophecies immediately after the reconsecration of the Temple ( in December 164 ? ) . |
| 23 | Alexander was rattled , disturbed in his habits , by instant fame , by being treated as a major dramatist . |
| 24 | The Table also shows that cutting usually involves the wrist or forearm , which has resulted in wrist-cutting being treated as a distinct syndrome ( Rosenthal et al. 1972 ) . |
| 25 | However , there are sufficiently unique features associated with the granting of security by a company that justify it being treated as a separate topic . |
| 26 | ‘ His biggest problem was always behavioural and emotional , resulting from his frustration at being treated as a difficult or educationally backward child . ’ |
| 27 | Westermann , who died in 1981 , is being treated as a special case . |
| 28 | However , more than three decades after Moira disappeared , senior detectives from Coatbridge last week travelled to the North of England to interview a man in connection with the disappearance , which is still officially being treated as a missing person inquiry . |
| 29 | However , senior detectives from Coatbridge last week went to the north of England to interview a man in connection with the disappearance , which is still officially being treated as a missing person inquiry . |
| 30 | More than three decades after Moira disappeared , senior detectives from Coatbridge last week travelled to the North of England to interview a man in connection with the disappearance , which is still being treated as a missing person inquiry . |