Example sentences of "being [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 2 | Set a massive 440 after being dismissed for a paltry 96 in their first innings , the champions showed their pedigree by reaching the target with four wickets to spare . |
| 3 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 4 | He 's being treated for a punctured lung at the town 's general hospital . |
| 5 | This season a benefit dinner is being arranged for the inspirational no.8 and certainly no player deserves it more . |
| 6 | He played in last summer 's first Test against Pakistan — getting a first ball duck — and was dropped again before being recalled for the final two Tests . |
| 7 | But with a date of construction for the wall extending well into the fourth century , and a date now being assigned for the general run of external towers somewhat earlier than that previously postulated in the Theodosian reconstruction of British towns and cities , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that both may be contemporary . |
| 8 | You should therefore make as much effort as you would if you were being interviewed for a particular job . |
| 9 | The Majuba boating lake area in Redcar is one of six sites being considered for a national maritime heritage centre . |
| 10 | The technical field being considered for the full proposal is inertial navigation technology . |
| 11 | The severe drought of the past three years is being blamed for a big increase in the number of houses suffering from subsidence . |
| 12 | The bad weather is being blamed for the empty seats , but now it 's cleared up they are confident of full houses until the run ends on April 15th . |
| 13 | Last season it seemed as though Fairclough was one of those being blamed for the porous Leeds defence ( without the benefit of TV or live matches I 'm going entirely on what I read ) , and was one of the players stuck with a for sale sign at the end of the season by Wilko . |
| 14 | Chickens are being blamed for an estimated 6m cases of salmonella poisoning a year in Germany . |
| 15 | Elsewhere , his fierce determination not to get out led to a suspicion of selfishness , and , in 1965 , to his being dropped for the funereal pace of his Edgbaston century against New Zealand . |
| 16 | ‘ During Tidy Travel Week car parks with 31 , spaces are being targeted for a special clean up to help raise awareness of the litter problem in the transport network . ’ |
| 17 | The new school came into being to provide for the increasing numbers of Methodist children in Edenderry . |
| 18 | Some of these are still in existence , and have resulted in flats being built for the elderly of the parish , and also housing for widows and daughters of clergymen . |
| 19 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | New complete bodyshells are being built for the ageing sportscar at the company 's factory in Faringdon , Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | The formal agreement of a number of vendors is still being sought for the planned Unix Common Desktop Environment , CDE . |
| 22 | ENTRIES from the North-East are being sought for the Royal Mail 's twin town award scheme , which aims to find the best link between a British community and a foreign counterpart . |
| 23 | I should like to take this opportunity to emphasise that the work on the Iraqi material is being done for the United Nations and the IAEA . |
| 24 | Manager Chris Morgan said : ‘ There are plans being made for the new financial year , but no firm decisions have yet been made . |
| 25 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
| 26 | Putting on successively larger weights increases the extension and the " modulus ' is measured from the graphical plot of load against extension , corrections being made for the cross-sectional area and for the original length . |
| 27 | Arrangements are being made for the annual dinner for the institute which is at the Stanwick Arms , in Aldbrough St John on April 29 . |
| 28 | From the window of his room the Collector watched the final preparations being made for the hazardous withdrawal from his original " mud walls " to the new fortifications . |
| 29 | Good performances in the British under 20 water polo trials at Sheffield have results in Paul Floyd and Lee Cooke ( Middlesbrough ) being selected for the 16-strong squad from which the 13 players will be selected for the four-nations tournament in Belgium on May 1–3 . |
| 30 | Greg 's medal came in 1990 , when he achieved the distinction of being selected for the British senior world championship eight in the same year . |