Example sentences of "being [vb pp] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , problems with the tail units necessitated modifications being undertaken at the Makers , and all three Perths were temporarily out of service from October 1934 until July 1935 . |
| 2 | I was being crushed at the sides but my feet felt they were being pulled . ’ |
| 3 | It was the sort of success that saw Talk Talk having insult added to injury by being nominated at the BRITS Awards for Best Band Of 1990 . |
| 4 | No matter how big the tree may grow , the same branching rule goes on being applied at the tips of all its twigs . |
| 5 | It is therefore advisable to delete clause 9.1.6 , or if that fails , at least ensure that it is amended to refer to the distress or execution being levied at the premises ( 5 ) Consider adding the following two provisos : PROVIDED HOWEVER that in the event that this Lease is mortgaged at the time of the proposed re-entry and the Landlord has been given notice of the existence of the mortgage then prior to such re-entry or proceedings therefor the Landlord will serve a notice of such proceedings and proposed re-entry on the mortgagee at the mortgagee 's last known address AND PROVIDED FURTHER that if the Tenant ( being an individual ) becomes bankrupt or ( being a company ) enters into liquidation ( whether compulsory or voluntary save for the purposes of amalgamation or reconstruction of a solvent company ) or has a receiver appointed the Landlord shall not exercise the right of re-entry by virtue of such bankruptcy liquidation or receivership unless neither the Tenant nor its mortgagee shall pay the rent hereinbefore reserved on the days and in the manner provided or there shall be any breach or non-performance or non-observance of any of the other covenants or agreements on the part of the Tenant herein contained |
| 6 | These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks . |
| 7 | He did at least take two more wickets himself , emerging as a five-wicket demon in the match , the standard of England 's slip catching being restored at the hands of Hick and Atherton . |
| 8 | The document is actually being printed at the taxpayers ' expense on the two photocopiers next to my desk in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | Hess did not appreciate the significance of these strip reversals , but Vine and Matthews did , and they suggested that while the ‘ sea-floor spreading ’ concept was basically right , it could be refined and that instead of the simple kind of gigantic conveyor belt that Hess had conceived , with oceanic crust being generated at the ridges and moving away in opposite directions , the situation was much more like that of a conveyor belt-cum-tape recorder . |
| 10 | Mittal asserted that he had been abducted from outside his home and later beaten and tortured with electric shocks before being left at a police station . |
| 11 | A man is being questioned at a police station in London . |
| 12 | He was being questioned at a police station in Bradford where the investigation is based . |
| 13 | He was being questioned at a police station in Bradford where the investigation , which is being headed by Detective Superintendent Trevor Wilkinson , is based . |
| 14 | A lawyer and former oilfield worker , he was head of government for nine years in the 1950s and 1960s under British colonial rule before being beaten at the polls by a charismatic rival , Mr Eric Gairy . |
| 15 | Egyptians have recent memories of being beaten at the hands of western-backed armies . |
| 16 | Sound had vanished as well : of the blows of a wood-axe and the shout of a drover , of children calling and the crow of a cock ; the beast-sounds from the byres and the fields ; the groan and clank of a winch at a well ; the clack of loom-shuttles and women 's voices chattering over them ; the brazen voice of a meat-cauldron being scoured and the squelch and fizz of cloth being pounded at the washing-stones in the side streams . |
| 17 | Johnson is now being held at a police station in London . |
| 18 | One of the speakers at the conference , being held at the Police Staff College , Bramshill , Hampshire , is a Canadian expert on Hell 's Angels and other gangs . |