Example sentences of "being [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scuffles broke out when more than 60 protesters began tearing down a fence while it was being erected by council contractors around the trees on a strip of land at Stafford Park . |
| 2 | How can he explain the position in Surrey and in St. Albans , where consultants are being placed under pressure by managers to give priority to GP fund holders because they bring extra money ? |
| 3 | A brief review of the appearance of the disease in goats was given : the six premises on which cases were thought to have occurred have been given a choice , after being placed under restriction , of slaughtering their stock receiving ex gratia payments , or remaining restricted . |
| 4 | Fewer babies available for adoption due to changing social attitudes and access to contraceptives and abortions has led to older children being placed for adoption . |
| 5 | Residents also fear that people using the only regularly served bus stop in the village — up on the A31 bypass bridge — are being placed at risk . |
| 6 | Whereas conventional criminals lack the wherewithal to pay for being placed on probation , no such inability is true for corporations . |
| 7 | The survey is perhaps also significant for the total absence of any importance being placed on welfare law work . |
| 8 | Is my right hon. Friend aware of the immense burden that is being placed on education authorities in the current year because of the increase in the numbers entitled to free school meals ? |
| 9 | This , according to Customer Systems manager of finance sector marketing Bernard Uzzell , leads to pressure being placed on computer departments at a business level as they try to co-ordinate strategies on a limited budget . |
| 10 | The festival is n't music based , say the organisers , with lots of emphasis being placed on family events . |
| 11 | Energy conservation and environmental pressures are rightly being placed on oil and gas producers in the North sea . |
| 12 | A second smaller Perspex Workshop located in the old building on Y floor produces perspex cradles and stands for material being placed on exhibition to ensure the items are safely supported . |
| 13 | We will end the neglect that has allowed some former patients to end up sleeping rough and led to others being placed on remand . |
| 14 | Such an approach is vital with the increasing demands being placed on health professionals to detect and treat disease before it is clinically apparent . |
| 15 | It is a team which has grown since last year , reflecting the important emphasis being placed on Export sales , which have shown almost a 25% increase by value in the last two years . |
| 16 | But Christian soon made it clear that his plans had nothing to do with the fire at the manor , although he admitted that Tom being placed in charge of the manor farm did affect what he had in mind . |
| 17 | After being placed in quicklime to dry , they were steamed for twelve hours — a process that was repeated several times . |
| 18 | One can accept that it is a complex and difficult issue as to which target language is acceptable , but clearly deaf people 's abilities are not being realised in contact with the hearing community . |
| 19 | ‘ Acquisition ’ is often used in the context of innate , non-specific forms of understanding — for example , knowledge of linguistic universals , being realised in respect of specific linguistic categories or rules . |
| 20 | Part delivery to the buyer does not prevent the remainder being stopped in transit unless the part delivery is made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to give up possession of the whole of the goods . |
| 21 | Some 19 million people are being exposed to air whose quality is on the verge of falling below recommended EC safety levels . |
| 22 | By 1673 , he thought that too many of his supporters were being exposed to danger by his presence so he went off to Ireland for a cooling-down period . |
| 23 | ‘ As a farmer whose children have grown up on a busy farm , I am very aware of the risks and the work pressures that all too easily lead to children being exposed to danger . |
| 24 | Separate aliquots of the same mucosal homogenates were assayed for peptic activity after being exposed to pH 8.0 by alkalinisation using 1N NaOH . |
| 25 | The National Toxics Campaign Fund , a US-based charity says the unexplained illnesses of hundreds of Gulf war veterans may be due to being exposed to radiation from weapons tipped with depleted uranium . |
| 26 | A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . ’ |
| 27 | ( p100 ) This is now given statutory effect by s13(3) of SGA 1979 which provides that : A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , the goods being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . |
| 28 | The Chief Superintendent is being posted to division after heading the department for some 2 years . |
| 29 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 30 | He/she sits down with you and compiles a list of the situations and circumstances which make them angry ( being criticized at school , being called names , and so on ) . |