Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer to the decision of the Labour Group that in the first instance all Conference items should be submitted to the Labour Group Executive for approval before being placed on a committee agenda . |
| 2 | From 1 April this year , the vast majority of patients will be guaranteed admission to hospital within two years of being placed on a hospital waiting list . |
| 3 | Likewise , scorch marks on kitchen worktops due to a hot pan being placed on a worktop is not considered as fire damage . |
| 4 | Another early problem was to uncurl a twist in the fuselage due to the skins having been removed without the airframe being placed in a jig . |
| 5 | In contrast , Jones ( 1989 ) argued that " only the most myopic enthusiasts for parent power can believe that this constituency [ the total number of 100,000 parent-governors ] will , by being placed in a quasi-market situation , automatically start operating as agents of that system " . |
| 6 | They were only caught after being stopped for a burglary they did n't commit . |
| 7 | The eventual movie Black Legion followed the detail of the Detroit story in many respects although the idea of a member of the jury actually being recognized as a member of the Legion as had happened in Detroit was dropped . |
| 8 | He emphasized the need for single command of strategic forces and for a common foreign policy , with the Commonwealth being recognized as a subject in international law . |
| 9 | This proposal was rejected outright by the Royal Commission , primarily on the grounds that the risk of a decision being overturned on an appeal is a risk inherent in all litigation and ‘ should be taken into account by all who embark on it . ’ |
| 10 | This gives the little nest additional stability and so reduces the risk of it being overturned by a gust of wind . |
| 11 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 12 | No matter how often we tell people that a dog is for life , not just for Christmas , some are always abandoned within hours of being given as a present . ’ |
| 13 | An estate agent must then show that ‘ all due diligence ’ has been used to avoid a false or misleading impression being given about a property . |
| 14 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 15 | The advice is being given in a course run by the police and a local authority to help children learn how to deal with strangers . |
| 16 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 17 | Sir John 's voice , meanwhile , is currently being heard in a stage version of Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol which opened in Los Angeles yesterday . |
| 18 | The fruits of performance are proprietary rights and choses in action assignable under statute even if the contract is personal ( Linden Gardens Trust Limited v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd and St Martins Property Corporation Ltd and Another v Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd 57 BLR 57 , both cases have been joined and are being heard in an appeal to the House of Lords at the time of writing ) . |
| 19 | He 's one of two being reared on a South Oxfordshire farm by game-keeper Ian Beningfield , who is also looking after a much more common Tawny owl , as well as a kestrel and a buzzard . |
| 20 | The system is targeted at scientists and engineers needing to access , manipulate , analyse and present large volumes of information , quickly and easily , being intended as a kind of happy medium between traditional user-hostile statistical software and spreadsheets , which are inadequate for complex technical data analysis . |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously I 'm being polluted by an American . ’ |
| 22 | The Government are being stampeded by a bunch of loony , rabid , right-wing fanatics . |
| 23 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |
| 24 | In the first of these , his penchant for physical combat resulted in his nose being broken during a fist-fight with another boy . |
| 25 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if you appear too submissive you stand in danger of being dismissed as a bit of a weed . |
| 27 | ‘ Will you write Charles Napier that I made his man Moncrieff a lieutenant , ’ Keith wrote , ‘ and I am now obliged to invalid him to prevent his being dismissed by a court martial . |
| 28 | But now the sleaze has bubbled to the surface and is being brandished like a fetish by the ‘ new class ’ reckless entrepreneurs living on their wits in the capital of the Wild East . |
| 29 | The main road is no less attractive and much quicker , passing the residence of Gate , a Victorian house built in mock Tudor style , and many delectable wayside cottages before crossing the Dee and , after being joined by a road from Barbondale near the ancient settlement of Gawthrop , heads directly into Dent Town . |
| 30 | Earlier in the week their Paddling Challenge , the oldest canoe race in the world , had seen several of the overseas competitors joining in without stopping even to unload their vehicles when they arrived and being joined by a number of prominent paddlers from the past . |