Example sentences of "being [vb pp] by the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same force majeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market . |
| 2 | The study will be linked with a follow-up survey of minibuses in Britain , being undertaken by the same researchers on behalf of the Transport & Road Research Laboratory . |
| 3 | Both gain from being surrounded by the same protective shell , though they diverge from one another in the precise thickness of shell that they ‘ prefer ’ . |
| 4 | In Allen v. Flood a dispute arose between the ironworkers ' union and woodworkers , the former objecting to certain work being done by the latter . |
| 5 | Water levels are coming up at exactly the same speed , and Chew and Blagdon are even being visited by the same migrant wildfowl . |
| 6 | Additionally dancing , yoga , keep-fit-to-music and relaxation classes are readily available through most local authorities as well as being offered by the many specialist bodies listed in both the Health and Leisure Activities chapters . |
| 7 | This , and other intimate details of the lives of the people of Central Asia , are now being researched by the many Turkish companies that are excited by the prospect of 10% green-eyed , 12% hazel-eyed and 100% starry-eyed potential customers longing to lose their material innocence . |
| 8 | They have to erm , first of all ask er R S P C A funding it , which is very much against anyway because I , I hate being humiliated by the this way . |
| 9 | One may truly get the sense of the Reeve 's Tale being played by the same company with the same costumes on the same stage as the Miller 's Tale : Absolon 's red hose for the " " halyday " " ( 3319 – 40 ) re-appear early on ( 3952 – 5 ) , and the daughter has the same grey eyes as the delicate Absolon ( 3317 , 3974 ) . |
| 10 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 11 | Coding was carried out by three coders , each child 's home and school observations being coded by the same person . |
| 12 | Lord Griffiths , committee chairman , said : ‘ The major step is that clients should have the choice of being represented by the same lawyer throughout . |
| 13 | PLANS to build a golf course near Tom King 's Wiltshire home are being opposed by the former Defence Secretary . |
| 14 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 15 | We might say that the narrator is being fucked by the same in the position of the other — a formulation intentionally ambiguous as to who exactly is in the position of the other , since it is both : the narrator is in the position of the woman being fucked by the other of woman ( man ) . |
| 16 | There was also a mobile canteen , whose function was to supply urns of tea and light snacks , rolls , etc , at snap time , a snap or tea break being allowed by the same wartime act . |
| 17 | Stand out track is ‘ Jam To It Again ’ , which mixes well with ‘ Thunder ’ from RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE 's recent ‘ In Dub ’ LP , both tracks being haunted by the latter 's ‘ Phantom ’ groove . |
| 18 | Stand out track is ‘ Jam To It Again ’ , which mixes well with ‘ Thunder ’ from RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE 's recent ‘ In Dub ’ LP , both tracks being haunted by the latter 's ‘ Phantom ’ groove . |
| 19 | Our data are consistent with gonadal sex being determined by the same gene in all mammals and , together with the evidence for a marsupial Y-borne homologue of the mouse Ubely , provide support for a monophyletic origin of the mammalian Y chromosome . |
| 20 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |