Example sentences of "being [verb] [prep] new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above , in the dark , there was a rumbling from the Towers of Paine , the crackling sound of old rock being broken by new ice and the skitter of smaller stones plunging down a crevasse . |
| 2 | Seven hundred and forty four women , patients at this surgery in Gateshead are being recalled for new smear tests . |
| 3 | It was this seat that was being repaired with new wood , which was then stained and waxed . |
| 4 | And he admits to being impressed by new housing partnerships between the public and private sectors on projects which could not have been built without the co-operation of both parties . |
| 5 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 6 | Good progress is being made in new drug research and development and early clinical trials of an orally administered anti-cancer drug and a new diagnostic agent are giving encouraging results . |
| 7 | I slid away , another shadow in my dark costume , and made a wide half-circle to an unoccupied area being prepared for new landing patches . |
| 8 | This contradicts the spirit of the supplementary benefit regulations and suggests that the means test is being enforced with new vigour . |
| 9 | The club has covenanted to keep H24/V72 ‘ in good condition and to deliver up upon the occasion the whole pitch being replaced by new turf or a synthetic surface ; the club or its successors ceasing to exist ; the club or its successors granting the supporter a date and time upon which H24/V72 may be removed . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In addition to being based on new technology and being over 40 per cent more powerful than its predecessor , the 820 has twice as much memory and this will provide us with the potential to exploit new , more efficient techniques for online applications and batch processing . ’ |
| 11 | More than £40m is being invested in new laboratory facilities at the company 's manufacturing technology centre in Port Sunlight , due to open mid-1994 . |
| 12 | These images are constantly growing , constantly mutating , constantly being augmented by new material as it becomes available . |
| 13 | He nevertheless still saw a need for such divisions being accompanied by new collective and community-based institutions . |
| 14 | Where the child is being praised for new behaviour it should be rewarded immediately . |
| 15 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 16 | A further £8.5m is being spent on new mortuary and laboratory services and an extension to the School of Dentistry . |
| 17 | However , in being always revisable in the light of new information the judgement still remains on a par with acceptance of a historical fact or a law of nature , which likewise never escape the possibility of being discredited by new evidence . |
| 18 | It is being served in new plastic cups designed to help keep the flavour . |
| 19 | On 11th February , in the second week of the new session of Parliament , Tite asked Hall what steps were being taken about new Government Offices . |
| 20 | With the exceptions of Ben Nevis and Carn Mor Dearg , they are seldom visited , can only be approached from distant bases in the north , are difficult of access , progress being impeded by new conifer plantations , have no guiding paths to their summits and are unkind underfoot . |
| 21 | Since these are being funded from new money ( the National Science Foundation will continue to fund basic research from its existing money ) , the reaction of the Swiss research community has been broadly favourable to these plans for oriented research . |
| 22 | Wallingford 's nine saladin boxes were the first to benefit from investment , each being fitted with new stripper turners . |
| 23 | Since the offences were first reported , Ms Pledger 's business has gone into receivership and Fitzbillies is now in the process of being refurbished under new management . |
| 24 | In Canada , Siberia , and the Far East , in the trans-Andean regions of Latin America and in Africa , the heroic building period was to come in the years when the railways stood on the threshold of being overtaken by new transportation developments , the internal combustion engine and later the aeroplane . |
| 25 | Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee . |