Example sentences of "being [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time schools are being placed in the front line of accountability by the proposal to give headteachers and governors direct control of budgets and the opportunity to opt out of LEA control . |
| 2 | Progressive versus non-progressive disorders — The diagnostic groups were broadly classified into progressive and non-progressive disorders ( table II ) , stroke patients being placed in the second group for analysis . |
| 3 | Last year he took part in the London race along with 27,000 others , being placed in the top six per cent at number 1,442 . |
| 4 | No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money . |
| 5 | When the second national curriculum was being formulated in the 1980s , this tradition was in retreat . |
| 6 | Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 . |
| 7 | In a cumbersome way it seems to have done this fairly effectively , for it was difficult for an official to embezzle royal money without being exposed in the long run , although the run was often so long that he was dead before it finished . |
| 8 | He would not , of course , be alone in being exposed in the General Prologue and enhancing the adverse view of himself by his own Prologue — consider , for instance , the Pardoner — but he would be alone in then telling a tale which clinches the destruction of any claim to a good character he might have ; a tale without any redeeming features , which the tales of even the worst of the corrupt clerics , the Friar and the Pardoner , have . |
| 9 | The French government was being criticized in the French media for its traditionally paternalistic relationship with former colonies , with the implication that it was content to support repressive African regimes . |
| 10 | For a new and welcome sound is being heard in the little Fermanagh community on the eastern shore of lovely Lough Melvin , the jewel in its many splendoured crown . |
| 11 | There is , however , some American authority which suggests that if this case were being heard in the American courts the answer would be likely to be in favour of granting a declaration in these circumstances : see In re A.C. ( 1990 ) 573 A.2d 1235 , 1240 , 1246–1248 , 1252 . |
| 12 | Increasing numbers of patients , however , are being diagnosed in the elderly . |
| 13 | It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines . |
| 14 | The injured boy is being treated in the spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 15 | In experiments using the within-subjects designs of fig. 5.3 or of Table 5.1 ( e.g. Grice 1965 ; Reese 1972 ; Honey and Hall 1989c experiment 3 ) , initial training involves three stimuli , two , A and B , being treated in the same way and the third , C , being associated with a different outcome . |
| 16 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
| 17 | Pakistan have failed badly when overseas , being walloped in the Caribbean and losing badly down under , even after beating all comers in Sharjah only weeks before . |
| 18 | Mr Lamont knows he must produce a confident up-beat budget if he is to avoid being sacked in the next Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 19 | Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ by the Serbs . |
| 20 | Just as the 2lst century requires a more diffused and safer balance of interest in what needs to be an increasingly multilateral global village , there is a risk of economic , institutional and political power being centralised in the European Community , and that a new bout of economic empire-building may occur . |
| 21 | Andras Hegedus , the Hungarian social scientist and former prime minister , has written of the campaign against bureaucracy being waged in the socialist countries , a campaign which is largely unaware of the root cause of bureaucratism — the separation of administration from the ‘ ultimate guarantor of power , i.e. society ’ , and the lack of social control . |
| 22 | The eventual cost of the conversion was £238,000 and the reconstruction period extended to fifteen months , the work being completed in the last quarter of 1980 . |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend believe that the public are satisfied that motorway repairs are being undertaken in the shortest possible time ? |
| 24 | The move from Greek Street — where at one stage he had had 60 boys being taught in the old Headmaster 's house — to Buxton Road had gone smoothly , and Daniel 's most illustrious pupil , Edge , had just become a Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 25 | Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms . |
| 26 | The Nelson Estate was also being developed in the late 1960s . |
| 27 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 28 | ‘ The receivers , who still own the building , are open to offers , and we are now very hopeful of a firm proposal being received in the next few days , ’ said Mr Souness . |
| 29 | The different techniques of pouch construction reflect the surgical developments on the unit with the totally stapled J-pouch-anal anastomosis being favoured in the latter part of the survey . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the fact that the youth problem was being redefined in the early 1900s , led to the advocacy of new remedies which meant that the voluntary sector found itself regarded as only one part of the solution , rather than the whole solution . |