Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | And I think what we 're trying to do is to see that we 're being treated fairly just as we might listen to that person 's argument as well . |
2 | It should be noted that positive discrimination would also be unlawful under the Act , since it inevitably results in one racial or ethnic group being treated less favourably than another on the grounds of their race , and so on . |
3 | Either he wanted to suffer , or he liked the idea of being treated less fussily than in the more expensive wards . |
4 | Recent events in the market are being examined as quantitatively as possible , with the object of analysing the forces determining the degree of price instability and of cartel coherence . |
5 | By that time , the patterns of usage — still being developed as far as mathematics is concerned — will have become fairly clear . |
6 | Improved standards of living in the South would depend on increases in consumption of energy , but there was small prospect of its being consumed as efficiently as in the North . |
7 | If this has not already been done , the bone fragments should be separated , those of left and right bones being differentiated as far as possible . |
8 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
9 | Clarissa tried not to be disarmed , tried to fathom why such self-denigration was being paraded so abjectly before someone who only last week had been a figure of insult and derision . |
10 | Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations . |
11 | The Charity Commissioners understand that many charities are out of step in this matter but they do wish to see matters being regularised as soon as possible . |
12 | Once again this can not be easily interpreted , and the two possible face-value interpretations — that Blacks are being sentenced more harshly than Whites , or the Blacks are more criminal — oversimplify the situation . |
13 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
14 | Recent indications are that hard look is being applied less intensively than hitherto . |
15 | The classical view was that progression occurred in a zigzag fashion by movements of the legs in two alternating groups , the fore and hind legs of one side and the mid leg of the other side being moved forward simultaneously while the insect is balanced on a " tripod of support " formed by the remaining three legs . |
16 | Expedition is useful in the case of property being resold very shortly after the unregistered title has been purchased , when it 's desired to give the new purchaser a registered title and completion is to take place before the title would normally be registered . |
17 | An independent hint that it was being used even earlier than the Shang dynasty is the appearance of turquoise , the nearest sources of which were situated on the Iranian plateau , during the initial Erh-li-t'ou stage of the Bronze Age . ’ |
18 | Front-line troops were being used up quicker than units pulled out into reserve could recover ; moreover , they were demoralised by what had happened inside Douaumont . |
19 | There should be evidence of the selected strategies being used properly eg if an analytical approach is being used for finding the minimum surface area of a container , while investigating containers , it would be expected that the steps of the process were correct . |
20 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
21 | Night working is also being used more commonly when environmental and safety considerations permit . |
22 | PRINCE Philip will share the Queen 's anger that the Royal Family 's laundry is being washed more publicly than at any other time in half a century . |
23 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale ( Mr. Greenway ) , who makes encouraging noises , has also said — and it is worth repeating — spending on prison buildings has risen by leaps and bounds , with many new establishments being opened , providing extra places , while fewer prisoners now share cells , and slopping out is being phased out earlier than anyone thought possible . |
24 | Thank you and as far as the jaguar 's concerned I noted that the jaguar is not being phased out now until two thousand and four , that being a three year further delay . |
25 | They object to the two giants being lumped together simply because they are hugely ambitious , colossally expensive and largely Texan . |
26 | With this in mind , a less visually seductive format might well have allowed a more readily comprehensible layout ; serious readers do not object to all illustrations being bound together rather than fragmenting the text in this way . |
27 | However , much of the fall was due to share prices being marked down rather than a flood of selling and trading volume at just under 500 million shares was little above normal levels . |
28 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
29 | That 's , that 's right , it 's being updated now even as we speak . |
30 | As we said they like being stretched intellectually so if you can put forward some concept theories they , they actually enjoy that . |