Example sentences of "being [verb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | E. P. Thompson is no doubt right to insist that a distinctive working-class culture was being formed at this period . |
| 2 | Communication amongst friends includes a much broader field than what is being communicated at that moment . |
| 3 | They 've been checked over , as I say , the first one 's been cleared , and that 's been allowed to proceed , and the next ship er is being checked at this moment . |
| 4 | We were very pleased and honoured to receive a visit from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , both of whom displayed a keen interest in our work and were even inveigled , by , into performing with the ‘ Dopple Kloppers ’ , being taught at that session ! |
| 5 | This strategy of inculcation and for more explicit interventions into the flow of subjective responses , experiences , and pleasures , had a great deal in common with the programme for a renewed Liberalism being developed at this time by L. T. Hobhouse : |
| 6 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
| 7 | And at Kidlington on the A four two three , Langford Lane 's junction with Banbury Road sees temporary traffic lights for resurfacing prior to the traffic lights being installed at that junction ; some fairly long delays there at the moment . |
| 8 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 9 | The system provides facilities for lexicographers to take check-point copies of the entry being edited at any terminal . |
| 10 | The former soldier said : ‘ It was a bit like being mortared at any time . |
| 11 | ‘ The QE2 was being built at that time . |
| 12 | It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time . |
| 13 | I , on a point of order Madam Speaker , I understand that a major announcement in connection with rail privatisation is being made at this moment by way of written answer and press conference erm the statement will reveal a huge increase in access charges for railway operators and ultimately therefore huge increases in costs for tax payers and passengers . |
| 14 | He brought his ballad finished ’ , we hardly need to be reminded that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel , and other poems were being written at this time . |
| 15 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 16 | Where a claim is submitted stating ‘ paint spilt on carpet ’ investigations should be made to establish that the room was actually being redecorated at that time . |
| 17 | More vulnerable than copyhold tenants were leaseholders , particularly when their leases were granted for limited terms such as seven or ten years , with the possibility of the rent being raised at each renewal . |
| 18 | No Substitute Prosecutor would appreciate being called at this hour . |
| 19 | Despite being exercised at such length , Crookback 's histrionic powers show no abatement . |
| 20 | I would go further Chairman , in terms of the version we reach now , I would be very surprised if they do reach those figures , and , er , why I would expect them to be substantially less , because the policy which is being proposed at this stage is one of using joint finance monies as a one hundred percent grant , one-off grants for one or two years in support of schemes , rather than in , as a tapering item . |
| 21 | Johnson , after a moment of being stung at this carelessness , dismissed it as ‘ rather an inconvenience than a loss ’ , and went on to use the incident to defend his views on the second sight . |
| 22 | Better management is likely to result from a period of careful observation and assessment , with considerable support being provided at this time through frequent contact with nursing and other ward staff . |
| 23 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 24 | But he said the incidents were not being linked at this stage and he could not say the same people were responsible for each theft . |
| 25 | These suggestions will certainly help the secondary school teachers being trained at this establishment to prepare their own lesson models during their teaching practice . ’ |
| 26 | Therefore , quite obviously , there is no problem about the new deposits being wanted at this stage . |
| 27 | In 1820 he was sent to Fort Augustus , where the locks of the Caledonian canal were under construction , and , as his father was well known to everyone there , he was given the opportunity of learning not only masonry but all the branches of civil and mechanical engineering that were being practised at that time . |
| 28 | An appeal can be marked without significant cost being incurred at that stage and frequently appeals are marked as a holding operation while advice is taken on the prospects of the appeal succeeding . |
| 29 | Usually a direct file will be one of a number of files being processed at any time . |
| 30 | Adam would be questioned , was possibly being questioned at this moment . |