Example sentences of "being [vb pp] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ the whole site is being treated in a way that will give the best possible financial return , that is the duty of the estate 's administrators . ’ |
| 2 | She was , therefore , simply being treated in the way in which the French thought royal children should be brought up . |
| 3 | Provided that the 's are not identical to the 's , equation ( 3.23 ) represents an irrational way of forming expectations , since it implies that expectations are being formed in a way which is inconsistent with the true process ; that is , equation ( 3.14 ) . |
| 4 | May I first say that I am sorry in fact that local authorities and police authorities are being separated in the way clause two proposes . |
| 5 | This planning is being done in a way that it has never been done before and I 'm surprised they have n't grasped that . |
| 6 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 7 | Some 25 per cent of the cultivated land is being used in a way that is not sustainable . |
| 8 | It will be noticed that in all of this the term " correlate " is being used in a way consistent with our previous uses of " event " , " cause " , " condition " , " causal circumstance " , and " effect " : not for a type of thing , but for a thing itself , more particularly an individual property or set of such properties rather than a type . |
| 9 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 10 | ’ Increasingly the Regulation was being interpreted in a way which was much wider than intended with applications for review becoming ever more speculative . |
| 11 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 12 | ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’ |
| 13 | Further to that supplementary question , will the Minister also have a word with the planners about hotel accommodation , especially in the County Antrim area , and find out why so many obstacles are being put in the way of hoteliers who want to improve their facilities ? |
| 14 | erm , they saw him being indulged in a way they were not . |
| 15 | Holding that the dismissals were fair , the tribunal said that , whilst it accepted that the union did not specifically accept what was proposed by the company , it concluded that , by its continuing and sustained silence over a period of a month , the union had agreed to the compulsory redundancies being handled in the way the company had proposed . |
| 16 | The purpose of such research is to describe the culture and life style of the group of people being studied in a way that is as faithful as possible to the way they see it themselves . |
| 17 | The service will deal with problems such as : Is the loan being managed in the way envisaged ? |