Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can result from underclaiming of tax reliefs against taxable income , but it is more likely to be due to tax being stopped on some income but not reclaimed . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've explained it to him and it 's not fair on him being exposed to some of our defending in recent weeks . ’ |
| 3 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 4 | I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material . |
| 5 | By the end of 1988 it has become obvious that Adobe 's proprietary font encoding system and hinting technologies ( these give good results at low resolutions ) were being broken by some of the other font foundries . |
| 6 | Excellent study days and short courses on ward teaching are now being arranged in some Schools of Nursing . |
| 7 | It condemned " the hostile campaign being waged in some quarters to harm the credibility and legitimacy of the PLO 's representation of the Palestinian people " . |
| 8 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 9 | Subject to a special fee being prescribed for some applications , the plaint fee includes all other interlocutory applications ( see Appendix II to County Court Fees Order 1982 as amended — at back of book ) . |
| 10 | He was reaching the point where he might be tempted to hurt the boy out of frustration or because he thought he was being tricked in some way . |
| 11 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 12 | One idea , being mooted by some of the Russian representatives at the United Nations , is that the UN 'S trusteeship council , set up to look after colonies en route to independence , be converted into a trusteeship council for the planet . |
| 13 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
| 14 | ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this . |
| 15 | The narrowness of the jets indicates that the dust flow is being confined by some other effect probably gas evaporating from the surrounding areas , according to Whipple , who points out that broad , unconfined fan-shaped jets are rare . |
| 16 | Not when — if , perchance , Labour Members were in that position in 20 years ' time , would they be prepared to have the whole system of assessing and adjudicating upon genuine claims destroyed by the campaigns that are being organised in some parts of this country ? |
| 17 | What it was like was being anointed by some slave girl . |
| 18 | You 'd see them being sucked into some kind of centre and disappearing … ’ |
| 19 | When they inspected the wicket , they found it being rolled by some prisoners from the local jail , one of whom looked familiar to Boycott . |
| 20 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 21 | He is already being blamed by some sections of the party for the redistributive tax plans which , it is said , lost Labour potential support . |
| 22 | Urgent government action is needed to stop proposed wind farms being built on some of Britain 's most beautiful countryside , according to a report from the Council for National Parks ( CNP ) . |
| 23 | This means that the higher rents are being imposed on some of the poorest members of the community , including a high proportion of elderly and unemployed people and a preponderance of semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers . |
| 24 | One day a German officer came in to the camp to supervise work that was being done on some primitive drains by Polish forced labour . |
| 25 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 26 | Until the experiment is over , neither the subject nor the doctor knows which is being administered in any particular case , the random allocation of patients to D or P being made at some remote centre . |
| 27 | Despite the positive results achieved by the mixed professional/ paraprofessional social service teams to which we have referred and the efforts being made in some countries to promote that model of service provision , little is being done in schools of social work to provide professional social workers with the type of skills needed for that kind of practice . |
| 28 | Submissions are being made by some of the Crucible team to continue making the programme using Central 's facilities . |
| 29 | In this text , which is aimed at senior undergraduate students of engineering , the subject of matrices is described and developed before being applied to some of the problems of engineering dynamics . |
| 30 | For similar reasons , forms of current cost accounting are being applied to some of the newly-privatized ( regulated ) industries , such as the water industry . |