Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament passed the bill and thereafter a creditor no longer had the power to detain a debtor already in prison at his pleasure , since the man could at once petition the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors for his discharge on the terms of his whole property , present and future , being given up for distribution among his creditors — and not only in London but to Commissioners who made circuits to hear such petitions in country districts . |
| 2 | Highway engineers ' schemes for increasing the size of junctions often result in the stone being broken up for hardcore or being tossed unceremoniously aside . |
| 3 | With blankets heated by being wrung out after immersion in boiling water . ’ |
| 4 | By 1953 the name of James Dean was being bandied about in theatre circles . |
| 5 | The Carrier 's Dance : Of all the working dances , this one is the most characteristic and represents men being cheered along by music as they carry fully laden baskets or other heavy loads on their shoulders . |
| 6 | This is the site of old mill ponds and the northernmost pond in particular is being filled in with builder 's rubble and other material . |
| 7 | However the REHAB behavioural scale was used , being filled in by hostel staff . |
| 8 | ‘ Besides , my friend Wotherspoon did n't mind being rousted out of bed an hour ago . |
| 9 | The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction . |
| 10 | First being patched up in hospital , then giving statements to the police , having Jamie arrested … he got home at six o'clock in the morning Hong Kong time and had the heart attack . ’ |
| 11 | The fire brigade was unable to estimate the expense of each call , but helpfully points out that where the cost of malicious false alarms is being claimed back in court , the normal figure is £97.50 an appliance . |
| 12 | Librarians must also carefully plan their initial selection decisions to make sure they take place before there is any danger of books being reported out of print ( although the chances of a book going out of print in the six months immediately following publication are often exaggerated — this happens rarely , and usually as the result of a miscalculation by the publisher ) . |
| 13 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 14 | Ian , my friend , it is being sorted out in fact . |
| 15 | SHEFFIELD United forward Brian Marwood is being frozen out of football — because he 's boss of the players ' union . |
| 16 | At a private meeting in Westminster five officers of the 1922 back-bench committee were warned that they faced being voted out of office as punishment for persistent opposition to the Government on the bill to implement the Maastricht treaty . |
| 17 | the design was not strong enough to resist the forces exerted while Span 5–6 was being cantilevered out from Pier 6 |
| 18 | Alternatively , s.22(1) of the Alkali , etc. , Works Act 1906 provides for formal complaint to be made to HM Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate via their inspectors , by any local authority or inhabitant of the district , if a process to which the Act applies is being carried on in contravention of the provisions of the Act and a nuisance has arisen . |
| 19 | The deliberate firing of 600 Kuwaiti oil wells by retreating Iraqi forces in 1991 created a major atmospheric pollution problem , and indicated the need to develop a strategy to try to lessen the likelihood of wilful acts of environmental damage being carried out during wartime . |
| 20 | Intra-regional trade represented only 4 per cent of all trade transactions by ECOWAS members , with the bulk of trade being carried out between member states and the European Communities . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the last century , when repairs were being carried out to embankment walls enclosing the loch , a Pictish canoe hewn from a single , solid piece of wood was dug from exposed silt . |
| 22 | A survey is being carried out to measure and assess jockeys heart and metabolic rates while race riding and Graham Bradley went out to ride Goodshot Rich in the Fairview New Homes Novices Chase wearing an assortment of electronic measuring equipment . |
| 23 | There is very little we know about these processes although several studies are being carried out at present . |
| 24 | For example a great deal of work is being carried out at present on the re-structuring of our training courses with a view to safe guarding the status of our Examination Award and gaining future exemption from lengthy in-service training for newly-qualified teachers . |
| 25 | this is being carried out at site level so more details can be given . |
| 26 | assess the need of the carer for support and help in the tasks being carried out on behalf of the vulnerable elderly person and in providing care ; |
| 27 | The work is being carried out on behalf of English heritage , which is planning to open up the Friary to the public once renovation work has been completed . |
| 28 | A confidential review of long-term unemployment is being carried out as part of the Department of Employment 's examination of the Government 's £1.3billion Employment Training programme . |
| 29 | The police say that there is no suggestion that it was the result of terrorism ; the belief rather is that it was caused by building works being carried out as part of the routine modernisation of the royal residences . |
| 30 | Maryland and Rice Universities are also contributing to the work , which is being carried out as part of the National Science Foundation 's Center for Research in Parallel Computation . |