Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the book to be very readable , with each subject being given just the right amount of coverage , considering the intended readership . |
| 2 | Well , and then I went on to Rome to look at a Goldoni production and I had to see the Pope , but I tell you — I hope you 're not Catholic — the sight of the old pullet being cheered up the aisle of St. Peter 's … |
| 3 | Databases are being taught how the world works , and thus becoming more than mere filing cabinets |
| 4 | In five other cases a client was at home but admission to an old people 's home was already being organised so the development officer was unable to intervene ( though in three of these cases she said she would have been able to provide home support ) . |
| 5 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 6 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 7 | By nineteen ninety-one sixty-one per cent was being carried on the roads with just seven per cent going by rail — part of the continuing trend of freight away from rail to road . |
| 8 | Ebenezer was dimly aware that he was being carried up the narrow staircase . |
| 9 | I watched Tafari 's son , Asfa Wossen , being carried up the Legation steps in a red cradle hung round the neck of his servant , while a large escort of armed retainers dispersed down the drive . |
| 10 | Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb . |
| 11 | During dynamic operation if the load is being accelerated then the applied torque is proportional to the angular acceleration and load inertia : At the motor the torque required is : since . |
| 12 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 13 | The iconography necessarily shows rather small numbers of dancers ; generally the seals and rings only allow space for three or four figures , but we should assume that we are being shown only the nucleus of a larger religious ceremony . |
| 14 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 15 | The seas swamped their boats , and all three boatcrews perished in the waters , their lifeless bodies being washed ashore the next morning . |
| 16 | agree to it being handed in the next day as opposed to the next lesson ? |
| 17 | Lee was being dragged down the bank . |
| 18 | Her despair at this belated realisation had rendered her only half aware of being dragged down the gallery stairs and across a hall humming with surprised murmurs . |
| 19 | I was appalled to note in Peter Jones 's report today of the Scottish Labour conference that in opposing the proposal to give the Scottish party greater autonomy the North Aberdeen MP , Bob Hughes , could warn delegates against the danger of ‘ being dragged down the back alleys of silly little constitutional issues ’ . |
| 20 | The Economics Minister , Juergen Moelleman , has called for Western states to provide urgent aid to make ex-Soviet plants safe , with the priority being to shut down the RBMKs . |
| 21 | ‘ I was only young at the time , but I can still recall the funeral , and the flat cart with his coffin being pulled up the field by his horse . |
| 22 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 23 | Now new presssure is being brought on the government . |
| 24 | A block of stone being brought up the slide from an underground quarry at Herston . |
| 25 | Launching the document , Bill Brett , general secretary of IPMS , said ‘ already the UK is being driven down the league table of industrially developed countries . |
| 26 | Having secured seats on the saloon deck we went to look about us , and saw another large flock of sheep being driven down the quay towards our steamer . |
| 27 | If two initially rather different cues are made to adhere to the same name or to closely similar names , then rather than being stretched apart the two cues might be forced closer together . |
| 28 | Only Phil Aldrich had seemed as placid as ever , even after being interrupted in the middle of his lunch , and thereafter being seated in the Lancaster Room , writing busily on the hotel notepaper ; and being interrupted just the once , and then only briefly , by Janet Roscoe — the latter intent , it appeared , on fomenting further dissatisfaction whenever possible . |
| 29 | William and Joe were busily employed , hands in pockets , watching the Francis Forbes Barton being winched up the slipway by the old capstan after a practice launch . |
| 30 | The injured man 's canoe was rescued by a speedboat after being swept up the Maisemore channel of the river and was hauled undamaged up the 15 ft high bank . |