Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a firm diagnosis and explanation being given to both the patient and referring general practitioner , 25 ( 33% ) of all patients were referred again to hospital for the same problem . |
| 2 | Faith is being treated in much the same way . |
| 3 | They are used because of their alleged efficiency , the two main spectral lines of sodium being emitted at nearly the peak of the colour response curve for the human eye . |
| 4 | And there will be specific discussions in later chapters concerning the different kinds of change that teachers are commonly involved with : change in classroom practice , change in school policy and change that is being imposed from outside the school . |
| 5 | Having lost the campaign for the DLP presidential nomination to Kim Young Sam in controversial circumstances [ see pp. 38911 ] , Lee Jong Chan 's possible intervention as an independent had threatened to split further the centre-right vote which was already being sought by both the DLP and the UNP campaigns . |
| 6 | I would have thought that overreaction would at least be preferable to the apathy currently being shown by both the government and general public alike . |
| 7 | Nine of the seventeen original members resigned , claiming that the DHAC was being used to further the aims of a ‘ political group ’ . |
| 8 | Railwaymen were going to object to funds being used to further the political careers of such men . |
| 9 | The the policies will be much debated , with quotes from various P P Gs , probably selective , being used by both the county council and objectors to justify their position . |
| 10 | On 24 December the Soviet authorities , fearing a further change of government and perhaps of political orientation , began to airlift troops into Kabul ; it was claimed that they were responding to an appeal from the Afghan government to suppress a counter-revolution which was being fomented from outside the country , and that their action was justified by the Soviet-Afghan friendship treaty . |
| 11 | One aspect of this review was to examine whether the MSC 's commitment to an equal opportunities policy was being fulfilled in both the letter and spirit of the agreement . |
| 12 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |
| 13 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 14 | Once you have covered the mirror with the glass you may well find that several pieces of fluff have been trapped between the two , and are being magnified by both the mirror and the covering glass . |
| 15 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |
| 16 | Within Mid Glamorgan the partnership is seen as a quality organisation being supported by both the LEA and the business world . |
| 17 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 18 | The ensuing chaos was almost life-threatening and the timid always ran the risk of reboarding without food or being left behind when the train steamed out . |
| 19 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 20 | One of the tests I brought with me when I joined the Audit Registration Committee ( ARC ) as chairman last June was the question : ‘ What would be done differently if regulation and monitoring were being conducted from outside the Institute by an external regulator ? ’ |
| 21 | Any recording system must be capable of being repeated in exactly the same form on future dates . |
| 22 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 23 | Great attention has been paid to the layout of the cockpit so that it is as efficient as possible when racing yet convenient when the yacht is being cruised with only the family on board . |
| 24 | By the time of the Crécy campaign in 1346 men-at-arms and mounted archers , who would fight on foot in positions chosen , as far as possible , for their defensive possibilities , were being recruited in broadly the same numbers . |
| 25 | This is a very important debate that is being listened to outside the House . |