Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 2 | The UK polytechnics have performed a signal service to higher education by showing how professional education can be developed , with practice being placed firmly in a framework of systematic intellectual exploration . |
| 3 | Every log , as it is picked up , can be examined as an individual work of art — shape , grain , colour , weight — before being placed carefully on the fire in the correct position , to give its own artistic display of pyrotechnics . |
| 4 | Original intentions to replace large-scale institutions with statutory services provided in the community have increasingly been modified , with a growing emphasis being placed instead on the role of families , friends and neighbours as the main providers of ‘ community care ’ . |
| 5 | Lighting was provided by a main bulb in a brass-rimmed glass bowl in the centre of the ceiling , with other bulbs along the edge , one being placed conveniently near the bulkhead to illuminate the tail lamp bullseye . |
| 6 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 8 | They 've changed it again as well , now , now instead of the er , the white ball being placed anywhere in the anywhere behind the black line at the top . |
| 9 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 10 | In 1990 , a cluster of increased incidences of leukaemia in young children around Sellafield nuclear power plant in north-west England was explained as being due to reproductive cells in fathers being exposed occupationally to a radiation total dose of over 100 mSv ( Gardner et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | In the first case , each text is given its own header , with any material common to all texts being factored out to an overall corpus header . |
| 12 | He 's being posted out to the West Indies and he 's asked her to marry him and go with him . |
| 13 | There will usually follow some negotiations with the promoters and these may lead to an amendment to the order , to the insertion of a protective clause to meet the various objections , or , quite frequently , to an undertaking being given apart from the order in consideration of the withdrawal of the petition . |
| 14 | And owning two British cars is quite good at a time when our motor industry is being given away to the Japanese , along with assorted golf courses . |
| 15 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Catholic worship continued in many great houses ; Sir Thomas Leedes at Thorne House , Steyning , was only one of a number who kept a priest 's hole against the chance of being given away by an informer . |
| 17 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 18 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 19 | It was in fact a large room divided in two , one half being given over to the mistress 's wardrobe and dressing stool , with the pier-glass in the corner , the other providing a small chamber with room only for a cot bed . |
| 20 | Parking was horrendously difficult , the off-street parking being given over to the Volvos , Rovers and BMWs of the conference-goers . |
| 21 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 22 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 23 | A member of staff from Finance contacted the team concerned that her name was being given out on the radio . |
| 24 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 25 | The seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys , in one of his less endearing passages , describes witnessing the chilling effects of this toxin being given experimentally to a hapless dog in a London gentleman 's club . |
| 26 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 27 | It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster — and there used to be a large car park there . |
| 28 | Consequently herbs were simply not part of the garden scene , being tucked away in an odd corner of the vegetable garden , or grown half-heartedly in pots or window-boxes , where they became aphid-ridden and dusty . |
| 29 | ‘ The hearing into the eviction order is being heard ahead of the other action , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |