Example sentences of "being [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 2 | By 300 the West added the birth of Jesus integrated into a solar calendar by being placed at the winter solstice . |
| 3 | Secondly , the third-floor accommodation , lit only by the small clerestory windows of the nave ( composed of shallower paired lancets ) , managed to obtain the necessary amount of daylight from the glazing being placed at the rear of the original traceried stonework where the splayed internal window-revels generate an area exposed to daylight which is larger than the window area seen from outside ( Fig 46 ) . |
| 4 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 5 | But that same summer thermo-nuclear war was the subject of a remarkable series of lectures being given at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study by the futurologist , Herman Kahn , which showed how far human values had been changed during the years Fuchs had been in prison . |
| 6 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 7 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |
| 8 | Police were investigating reports of windows being broken at the pub . |
| 9 | After being enrolled at the university at the age of seventeen , Freud studied physiology , biology and anatomy . |
| 10 | At the time of my retirement in 1983 the new scheme was being fully implemented with our officers being enrolled at the Warsash school of Navigation . |
| 11 | Now she 's the first patient being treated at the hospital 's new dermatology building . |
| 12 | Diane Wright , of The Greenway , Dovecote , Liverpool , was being treated at the hospital for anorexia . |
| 13 | Last night she was still being treated at the Countess of Chester hospital and under sedation . |
| 14 | Diane Brewer is finally being treated at the Eldene Health Clinic , where Health officials have been forced to hire in a dentist for half a day a week . |
| 15 | If both , in what combination ? etc. — we shall refer to a pseudo policy rule , of which the simplest example is , is the unemployment rate which is expected to prevail in period t , this expectation being formed at the end of period t - 1 with the aid of a knowledge of . |
| 16 | A spokesman said a substantial amount of Derv was spilled while a rail tanker was being filled at the North Tees road and rail terminal . |
| 17 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 18 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 19 | Winter gear is being readied at the moment , but it will be hard , all the same , travelling in such weather . ’ |
| 20 | This activity , along with the History of Ageing ( see C below ) is being undertaken at the Group by the Rank Xerox Unit of ageing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The following information was collected : patient 's age and gender ; time and place of accident ; activity being undertaken at the time ; and type of accident and injury sustained . |
| 23 | During a visit to Spain yesterday , the Prime Minister declared he will not allow the French to stop the deal being ratified at the EC 's Edinburgh summit later this month . |
| 24 | Bifano claimed that Cetia is playing a key role in validating PowerPC microprocessor designs still being developed at the Somerset Center in Austin , Texas . |
| 25 | The experimental GROPE system , which gives tactile feedback , is being developed at the University of North Carolina . |
| 26 | To make the process as uniform as possible the professionals will use standardised methods covering a range of possible problems , such as those included in the Camberwell assessment of need , which is being developed at the Institute of Psychiatry ( box 4 ) . |
| 27 | Hunterston storekeeper David Frew noticed the number of cans of soft drinks being consumed at the power station , particularly during the outage . |
| 28 | I was being crushed at the sides but my feet felt they were being pulled . ’ |
| 29 | in respect of self-employed persons , in receipt of National Insurance Unemployment Benefit or in the absence of the entitlement to such benefit provides satisfactory evidence of being registered at the Department of Employment ( DHSS in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 30 | This is showing you that the sentence or command line is a comment or reminder , and is not being implicated at the moment . |