Example sentences of "being [vb pp] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | E. P. Thompson is no doubt right to insist that a distinctive working-class culture was being formed at this period . |
| 2 | Communication amongst friends includes a much broader field than what is being communicated at that moment . |
| 3 | They 've been checked over , as I say , the first one 's been cleared , and that 's been allowed to proceed , and the next ship er is being checked at this moment . |
| 4 | We were very pleased and honoured to receive a visit from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , both of whom displayed a keen interest in our work and were even inveigled , by , into performing with the ‘ Dopple Kloppers ’ , being taught at that session ! |
| 5 | This strategy of inculcation and for more explicit interventions into the flow of subjective responses , experiences , and pleasures , had a great deal in common with the programme for a renewed Liberalism being developed at this time by L. T. Hobhouse : |
| 6 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 7 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
| 8 | And at Kidlington on the A four two three , Langford Lane 's junction with Banbury Road sees temporary traffic lights for resurfacing prior to the traffic lights being installed at that junction ; some fairly long delays there at the moment . |
| 9 | The first rooms are being installed at Green School . |
| 10 | This genetic cohesion of a population arises because , while the very slow processes of homogenisation are at work ( among copies of a family on the same and different chromosomes ) , the chromosomes in a population are being mixed at each generation . |
| 11 | It had the added distinction of being edited at one time by Nelson Mandela , the ANC leader now in prison . |
| 12 | The system provides facilities for lexicographers to take check-point copies of the entry being edited at any terminal . |
| 13 | Initially the scheme is being targeted at five landscape types : chalk and limestone grassland , lowland heath , waterside landscapes , coastal land and uplands . |
| 14 | The former soldier said : ‘ It was a bit like being mortared at any time . |
| 15 | The accommodation provided through the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas comprises 25 flats , consisting of 4 bed-sitters , 2 single-bedroom units , 8 double-bedroom units , 5 two-study-bedroom units , 2 three-study-bedroom units , 2 two-double-bedroom units , 1 three-bedroom unit and 1 single-bedroom unit , the last two dwellings being sited at ground-floor level for the use of disabled people . |
| 16 | ‘ The QE2 was being built at that time . |
| 17 | With other inputs being priced at marginal cost , this will lead the purchaser to economize on the input in question , compared with its true resource cost , using more of the relatively cheap inputs . |
| 18 | But in fact it would be beneficial to all parties for the supplier to receive a lump sum in exchange for the input being priced at marginal cost , because this would lead to optimal proportions being used ( Vernon and Graham , 1971 have a demonstration ) . |
| 19 | It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time . |
| 20 | I , on a point of order Madam Speaker , I understand that a major announcement in connection with rail privatisation is being made at this moment by way of written answer and press conference erm the statement will reveal a huge increase in access charges for railway operators and ultimately therefore huge increases in costs for tax payers and passengers . |
| 21 | He brought his ballad finished ’ , we hardly need to be reminded that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel , and other poems were being written at this time . |
| 22 | Despite being shot at point-blank range , Mr Dale ( 43 ) survived , but Mr Norris ( 46 ) died almost instantly . |
| 23 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 24 | Neither do I. Tradition is being manufactured at breakneck pace . |
| 25 | Even though new issues are increasingly being offered at current market values , the banks continue to facilitate the accumulation of stock within related groups of companies . |
| 26 | Its western counterpart apparently remained open , being used at one stage for spelt cultivation . |
| 27 | The idea of inspection started with national inspectors ( Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ) , but increasingly local inspectors are being used at local education authority ( LEA ) level . |
| 28 | Endaby , two double rooms being used at single occupancy for Lental House residents , one shared female bed available . |
| 29 | It was not until the early years of the twentieth century that they had devised a formula for their boot polish which was marketed later under the name of ‘ Cherry Blossom Boot Polish ’ which became such a success , being sold at one penny per tin . |
| 30 | For example , early indicators of investment success under a cost-leadership strategy might be the proof , at an embryonic stage of the life-cycle , that the product matches its rivals in quality but is being produced at lower cost . |