Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conflict is between an essentially moral stance which prizes consistency and uniformity in the application of standards ( similar discharges should be similarly controlled in degree and kind ) and a utilitarian approach concerned with effect on water quality , regardless ( again , in theory , at least ) of the means of the discharger or the demands fortuitously being placed unequally on similar dischargers ( see generally Ackemman et al , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | Twelfth seed Ros Nideffer went out 4–6 6–2 10–8 to US qualifier Katrina Adams in a second round match resumed after being halted overnight at 5–5 in the final set . |
| 3 | By 1913–14 , over £25,000 was being given away in this manner and in return the Central Office agents were able to ensure the appointment of suitable constituency agents and the choice of good candidate The outlay constituted only about a tenth of the whole of the local parties " expenditure , but a much higher proportion of the expenditure of the backward parties most in need of reform . |
| 4 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 5 | A spokesperson for the band confirmed a national tour is currently being pieced together for late autumn . |
| 6 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 7 | Ironically , it was the eventual failure of the gas engine that led to the introduction of electrical power , the wheel finally going out of use in 1962 and sadly , being broken up in 1964 . |
| 8 | The bulk pack being broken down into smaller units for re-sale to other parents with the school taking a percentage of the discount . |
| 9 | Eyes down again to the book , he went on , ‘ All sharpened staves for use in traps ( and also spears and arrows ) can be hardened to increase their powers of penetration by being charred lightly in hot embers , a process which tightens and toughens the wood fibres . ’ ’ |
| 10 | The highlight of the Festival for us was really the International Violin Competition , which went on all day for 4 days ; 28 competitors played three different programmes , the ‘ survivors ’ being whittled down at each stage . |
| 11 | They complained and asked why they were being treated differently from other couples . |
| 12 | Of the other three , Port Erin had to wait 58 years for its lifeboat station , being formed only in 1882 , while those suggested for Jurby and Laxey never materialised . |
| 13 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 14 | Offices of the Levi jeans company and the computer firm , Casio , were being checked yesterday for structural damage . |
| 15 | The law protects tenants from being ripped off by rack-rent thugs . |
| 16 | No doubt new items are being choreographed already for 1986 reunion , which will be held in a school , so the acoustics should be a great improvement on Crystal Palace and the atmosphere much cosier . |
| 17 | Also blood , and menstrual cramps and the thought of labour pains and being stitched up and being woken in the night by a shitty damp bundle and having my tits tugged and bitten , and being mauled around by macho chauvinist piglings who call themselves obstetricians . |
| 18 | Tales of this sort continued to emerge ; in early 1989 , for example , The Times reported a secret programme on the part of Iraq to build nuclear warheads for a strategic missile being developed simultaneously with technical assistance from Pakistan and finance from Saudi Arabia . |
| 19 | This is a new method and is being developed further with some optimism . |
| 20 | There was further criticism that safety training and vaccination programmes are often inadequate and ‘ selective ’ , being limited only to those groups of workers most at risk . |
| 21 | As an alternative to direct exchange between service points some authorities create circulating collections of ‘ low-interest ’ subjects which move location periodically without being assigned permanently to any base . |
| 22 | He presented the earth as an essentially static , harmonious system that was being torn apart by human greed . |
| 23 | YUGOSLAVIA : Being torn apart by Serbian imperialism and Croat and Muslim factions — causing the largest displacement of civilian population since World War Two . |
| 24 | They say reading and writing tuition is being squeezed out by other subjects . |
| 25 | But by the 1930s the Gloucestershire Old Spot was being squeezed out by faster growing modern hybrids . |
| 26 | He was sitting on a chair beside a display of furled umbrellas ; he had his head in his hands and was being eyed dispassionately by two male assistants in dark suits . |
| 27 | There was some activity , and the fires were clearly being stoked up with fresh wood to give more light ; and lit lamps were moving here and there . |
| 28 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 29 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 30 | they were being picked up by two Commandos and dumped on the grass verge . |