Example sentences of "being [verb] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appointment of new and conservative judges in the later 1980s was seen as posing a threat to the basic rights enunciated in Roe , yet in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ( 1989 ) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey ( 1992 ) the court condoned further restrictions being placed by the states on the circumstances under which women could obtain abortions , while refusing to decide directly to reverse the principles in Roe . |
| 2 | The day started with our bus being stopped by the police , and the RCCC Chaplain , Reverend Bill Holland and Tour Captain , Roy Sinclair were ‘ arrested ’ for having ‘ deep pockets and short arms ’ . |
| 3 | stopped , being stopped by the police find a bottle like whisky ! |
| 4 | The central aim of the study was to explore the nature of the overall service provided by the police to the public : ‘ policing on the ground ’ , focussing on everyday policing , and to describe the priorities currently being given by the police to the various parts of their workload in response to demand from the public . |
| 5 | Radiotherapy for cancer of the bladder was typically given in two phases ; phase I tumour dose of 40 Gray in 20 daily fractions over four weeks and Phase II 20 Gray in 10 daily fractions over two weeks , the different phases being distinguished by the fields used but always irradiating a similar volume of the rectum . |
| 6 | On 4 April two officers reported the River Spey to be ‘ low and fordable in … many places ’ and by 12 April , after being joined by the forces from Strathbogie , Cumberland 's army reached the river , where the water level had dropped significantly in the preceding few days . |
| 7 | The estimated 40,000 troops in Dese are being joined by the remnants of the defeated Third Army , which is struggling down the road or surrendering to the rebels . |
| 8 | Julie 's typical of the way small businesses are being treated by the banks , according to Ron Brind . |
| 9 | All this time the bodies found , one after the other , in Mouncy Street , were being examined by the pathologists . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that Michael Banks had been bigger than he was , the dead man 's clothes were still being examined by the police . |
| 11 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 12 | The gap was being filled by the arrivals . |
| 13 | Now their Cult of Pleasure was being persecuted by the agents of the distant Phoenix King . |
| 14 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 16 | ZOMAX , a new pain-killing drug given to a million people in the UK over the last two years is being withdrawn by the manufacturers , pending changes in the prescribing information issued to doctors . |
| 17 | Then she was being dragged up from the music stool and she was being shaken by the shoulders as he demanded , ‘ What 's this ? |
| 18 | However , the whole lot of them were being manipulated by the men who ran the music business … |
| 19 | He asserted that rising crime , lawlessness in the economic sphere , and a general " legal nihilism in society " were being compounded by the authorities ' failure to act decisively . |
| 20 | But the animal also lives in an external environment and we have here a fundamental new set of ethical values being developed by the ecologists and ‘ green ’ people . |
| 21 | In his arms she was no longer a thinking , rational person , she was merely a being consumed by the flames of need . |
| 22 | … blues and greens and browns under the sun , and long wisps of raincloud being torn by the mountains … |
| 23 | Cheese-makers say they are being squeezed by the effects of two systems in the rigidly-controlled milk market . |
| 24 | A fourteen-year-old offender who 's had three holidays in Spain this year at tax payers ' expense has had a court case adjourned because he 's being interviewed by the police on other matters . |
| 25 | No. 50 , in page 38 , line 22 , leave out from person' to whether' in line 23 and insert appointed by being nominated by the students ' association of the college' . |
| 26 | No. 51 , in page 38 , line 33 , leave out from beginning to ‘ shall ’ and insert ‘ appointed by being nominated by the students ' association of the college ’ . |
| 27 | No. 52 , in page 38 , line 39 , leave out from ‘ by ’ to ‘ shall ’ in line 40 , and insert ‘ being nominated by the students ' association of the college ’ . |
| 28 | Some species of surface-living fish , in danger of being out-paced by the hunters , have turned their pectoral fins to a special purpose . |
| 29 | She was informed that they were being boarded by the police , but she was never heard from again . |
| 30 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |