Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that no attempt was being made to arrive at an analysis of our situation based on the specificity of our experience as lesbians and gays . |
| 2 | Some effort is being made to look at general issues such as the effect of industrial organisation and firm size on standards and the form and value of published statistics . |
| 3 | Small businesses were , however , specially protected from the effects of the squeeze , the domestic banks being instructed to reserve at least 20 per cent of their available credit for smaller commercial borrowers , with particular favour to be shown to those in eastern Indonesia . |
| 4 | In 1912 the Palace Girls were selected to represent all Tiller Girls when they were greatly honoured by being invited to perform at the very first Royal Command Performance . |
| 5 | Four black men armed with AK47 rifles killed the white man , Tony Concer , as he was being driven to work at a steel mill by a friend . |
| 6 | The homeless are being asked to gather at the Commonwealth Hall . |
| 7 | Wrexham 's FA Cup first round match at Crewe on Saturday week is not an all ticket affair with spectators from both clubs being asked to pay at the turnstiles . |
| 8 | Peter Williams had the sort of nice neat blazer that everyone can remember being forced to wear at some traumatic stage in their lives , while the commentators and summarisers , who all sounded about 70 , had a comfortingly narrow command of the English language . |
| 9 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 10 | Isolation is seen from the outside as a result of women not speaking English , or of their being forced to stay at home for cultural reasons . |
| 11 | Hundreds of children are being forced to stay at home because its feared high winds could damage their school buildings . |
| 12 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 13 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 14 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 15 | The starving animals were found shivering after being left to die at the side of a road at Staverton in Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | From that time until Henry 's death he printed all statutes and proclamations with exemplary skill and efficiency , on at least one occasion being required to work at night and set the type himself ( Letters & Papers Henry VIII , 7 , no. 1415 ) . |