Example sentences of "being [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hartlepool Roman Catholic priest Father Tony Cornforth , of St Joseph 's Church , is being stopped by red tape from distributing food past its sell-by date to the needy . |
| 2 | The Minister for Local Government , Rural Development and Special Education , Maulana Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi , resigned on March 4 after being criticized by Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif for not supporting the government 's policies over the Gulf war . |
| 3 | Whilst these variations are important I shall focus this discussion mainly upon the more common examples , where support is being given by one person to another . |
| 4 | Futures contracts are traded on a central regulated exchange by open outcry , whereby traders congregate periodically in a pit on the floor of the exchange to buy and sell contracts , with every negotiated price being heard by other traders . |
| 5 | Six months ago , pot-holders in the Forest of Dean complained underground caves were being polluted by old waste dumped in a mineshaft by Watkins Engineering at Sling . |
| 6 | In childhood , traumas have a sexual and aggressive component , the two not being distinguished by young children — the primal scene , when seen by a child under five , is taken to be an attack by father on mother . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As the Prime Minister reproached Mr Nigel Lawson for resigning the Chancellorship ‘ with such suddenness and haste ’ — and over personality not policy — her isolation was highlighted by the ex-minister whose enforced resignation in the Westland affair of 1986 is being likened by disaffected MPs to the recent sacrifice of Mr Lawson . |
| 9 | Certainly the Athenians were technically justified in accepting the neutral Corcyra as an ally , despite Corinthian claims that the Thirty Years Peace provisions about neutrals did not envisage their being enrolled by one side to the intended detriment of the other ( as if international treaties usually have anything to say about the future state of mind of the signatories ! |
| 10 | While there are signs that the situation is changing , the reasons for the subject being pervaded by such conservatism and isolationism lie in the history of its development . |
| 11 | Time series data can be represented graphically in a line diagram of observations plotted against time as horizontal axis , successive points being joined by straight lines . |
| 12 | But it has to be remembered that he was now being treated by many people with extreme deference , mixed , with not a little nervousness , and it is very difficult to behave normally in such circumstances . |
| 13 | Where these double spits are found in positions sheltered from the dominant westerly winds , as at Poole , Christchurch , in Hampshire and Pagham in Sussex , it is possible to regard them as being formed by longshore drift from two directions . |
| 14 | The package was last night being examined by forensic experts . |
| 15 | Three other people including a woman , all believed to be from the one family who were arrested at the scene are now being questioned by police , while three rifles recovered in a follow up search are being examined by forensic experts . |
| 16 | The rule is that EC competition law takes precedence over UK law , though this has not prevented merger cases being examined by both jurisdictions ( e.g. British Airways/British Caledonian , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We just see one leader being cheered by one lot of people , and another being cheered by a different lot . |
| 18 | Mr Balfour had ridden on a motor car from Downing Street to the House of Commons , the start being witnessed by several members of the government . |
| 19 | Since then , every aspect of both the US and British charts has been investigated , one remaining gap being filled by 40 Years Of NME Charts , the week by week UK rundown just published by Boxtree Press . |
| 20 | while Labour Party ranks are being filled by further education lecturers , men and women with professional training with much the same outlook on politics as a profession as the younger Conservatives . |
| 21 | Among the ideas being floated by those owners who see television as their saviour are an expansion of the National and American leagues from two divisions each to three divisions each ; the introduction of regular season games between clubs in the two leagues ; and the involvement of eight clubs , rather than the present four , in play-off games at the end of the season . |
| 22 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 23 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 24 | Hence the project will include empirical work associated with some of the applied economics research being undertaken by other members of the Economics Department at Southampton . |
| 25 | With regard to the work being undertaken by Scottish Enterprise , it is hoped that early in the new year there will be a version of the work being done — not including commercially confidential information . |
| 26 | I know that it is taking a full part in the exercise being undertaken by Scottish Enterprise . |
| 27 | New printing operations of the Daily Record are to be developed by the M8 motorway at North Cardonald and major investment in a new mechanised sorting office is being undertaken by Royal Mail at the St Rollox site in Springburn . |
| 28 | The sunken garden is just one of a range of projects being undertaken by 60 students and seven college staff in order to forge stronger links between the college and the community . |
| 29 | The removal of the whitewash which has covered the paintings since the Civil War is being undertaken by English Heritage and the Courtauld Institute 's Conservation Department . |
| 30 | Secondly , as Smart points out , later in the 1950s prostitution came to be linked with fears about immigration , not only , she suggests , because prostitutes were often linked with pimps who were , for example , Maltese , West Indian or Italian , but because it was also believed , for instance by the Wolfenden Committee and many in Parliament , that the ranks of prostitutes were being swollen by large numbers of immigrant women . |