Example sentences of "being [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Czechoslovakia Romanesque structures were being erected from the early tenth century , in the form of castles and churches . |
| 2 | The more common form shows the hands in an attitude of prayer , centre-chest height , with the fingertips touching and , occasionally , the thumbs crossed ; the second position involves the crossing of the arms with fingertips at centre chest , the right arm being placed over the left and the fingers of both hands remaining closed but outstretched ; finally , there is the attitude of total repose , legs slightly parted at the knees , the shoulders down and the hands placed over the groin , again with the right hand over the left and the fingers together yet unclasped . |
| 3 | West Germany was to be the poor relation , with all its military units being placed under the integrated command structure . |
| 4 | It refers to the duty being placed on the new committee , ( a ) to monitor the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland ; and , ( b ) to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State regarding the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland . " |
| 5 | Extend the back leg and slide it backwards , the free hand being placed on the upper thigh of the extended leg . |
| 6 | Emphasis is being placed on the cognitive basis of social identity in contrast to the more familiar emphasis on evaluations . |
| 7 | And one of the prime factors most often pointed to as a cause has been the rise of the new media of communication and entertainment , particular emphasis being placed on the deleterious effects of television . |
| 8 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 9 | Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas . |
| 10 | This resulted in 75% of contracts being placed with the traditional provider . |
| 11 | It had not been taken seriously by MPs or press and the Black case was discredited by being placed alongside the earlier claim . |
| 12 | As potential applications for PCR develop more emphasis is being placed upon the practical aspects of the reaction . |
| 13 | At the same time schools are being placed in the front line of accountability by the proposal to give headteachers and governors direct control of budgets and the opportunity to opt out of LEA control . |
| 14 | Progressive versus non-progressive disorders — The diagnostic groups were broadly classified into progressive and non-progressive disorders ( table II ) , stroke patients being placed in the second group for analysis . |
| 15 | Last year he took part in the London race along with 27,000 others , being placed in the top six per cent at number 1,442 . |
| 16 | No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money . |
| 17 | When the second national curriculum was being formulated in the 1980s , this tradition was in retreat . |
| 18 | Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same force majeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market . |
| 19 | The stolen Peugeot 505 was chased by police across three counties before finally being stopped on the M-one near Milton Keynes . |
| 20 | Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 . |
| 21 | In fact , petitions — which are scarcely known before 1272 — quickly became so numerous that by 1280 most were being redirected to the appropriate departments of royal government ( the exchequer and the chancery above all ) and only the remainder were dealt with by the king . |
| 22 | The RSDLP should be reorganized as a federal party , with the Bund being recognized as the sole representative of Jewish workers and the party programme promising ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ ( that is , all Jewish workers , regardless of where they lived in the empire , would be members of a national Jewish association , responsible for all Jewish educational and cultural affairs ) . |
| 23 | Police inquiries seem to have got nowhere but they believe , as do Jim 's neighbours and friends that the killer is being shielded within the local community . |
| 24 | Yet it is probably fair to suggest that few people could have been immune from the implications of the party struggle at Westminster , since decisions taken by the central government often had a direct affect on ordinary people 's lives , and few people could have avoided being exposed to the political controversies of the day through the various media of propaganda . |
| 25 | Most crucially it means identifying the population which is at ‘ risk ’ of being exposed to the noxious or infectious agent via proximity or because of certain characteristics which make them more vulnerable . |
| 26 | The size of the establishment could reasonably be expected to affect the number of young people being exposed to the different recruitment strategies ( although the relative numbers of small employers would also have to be borne in mind ) . |
| 27 | In a cumbersome way it seems to have done this fairly effectively , for it was difficult for an official to embezzle royal money without being exposed in the long run , although the run was often so long that he was dead before it finished . |
| 28 | He would not , of course , be alone in being exposed in the General Prologue and enhancing the adverse view of himself by his own Prologue — consider , for instance , the Pardoner — but he would be alone in then telling a tale which clinches the destruction of any claim to a good character he might have ; a tale without any redeeming features , which the tales of even the worst of the corrupt clerics , the Friar and the Pardoner , have . |
| 29 | Are we going to withdraw from the risk of being contaminated by the modern alternatives to following Jesus ? |
| 30 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |