Example sentences of "[noun sg] [being] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yesterday Taoiseach Albert Reynolds did not rule out the possibility of the contest being held in the province , but 24 hours later RTE chief John Sorohan said Dublin would be the most likely venue . |
| 2 | For diehard election party-poopers , however , there is still time to book into the election-free break being offered on Lundy Island , the National Trust 's island in the Bristol Channel . |
| 3 | LAST week we protested about the 25-day Christmas break being taken by Members of Parliament . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The presence of a fringing reef and a barrier reef on an island would seem to be best explained by glacial control , the barrier reef being formed with the Post-glacial rise of sea level and the fringing reef by the more stable modern sea level . |
| 6 | It is now clear , even if little else is to the layman , that a vote for amendment 27 will be a vote to prevent the social chapter being administered . |
| 7 | So a vote for amendment 27 will be a vote to prevent the social chapter being administered . |
| 8 | I 'm delighted to welcome you I 'm sure you 'll be at home with one accord being sung on Sunday night . |
| 9 | The chairmen of Chase Manhattan and Manufacturers Hanover said that the July debt-reduction accord being hammered out with Mexico [ see p. 36812 ] had signalled the need to bolster reserves . |
| 10 | The type and nature of digestion is similar in both , but the frequency of digestion is higher in the latter , with every single tooth being digested ( Table 3.13 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Of the Godfather of All ? ’ whispered Yeremi , haunted by the memory of Yakobi being forced towards the heat sink . |
| 12 | There is a problem here with the eyes , with the musician being chained to the printed page in front of him . |
| 13 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 14 | Even when a benefice was in effect being inherited , it was accepted that the king 's right should be acknowledged at the moment of succession . |
| 15 | Slovenia 's President Milan Kucan told the meeting that in accordance with the results of that referendum Slovenia was already committed to becoming an independent state , a proclamation to that effect being scheduled for June 26 . |
| 16 | The simplest form of microscope is the convex lens , the magnifying effect being caused by the curvature of the lens . |
| 17 | Commenting on ( 167a ) and ( 167b ) , he observes that only oblige can be followed by a " resultative structure " , whereas make " supposes a concomitance between causation and the actualization of the effect being caused , which forces the latter to refer to the operation itself rather than to the state which results from it " . |
| 18 | The trouble is that having er agreed to a er more flexible approach to the size of the police authority , the Government has not taken the opportunity despite many effective speeches from the Conservative benches at second reading to er ret to return to the tripartite system of policing in this country which was er the e the essential element of the nineteen sixty four Act which is now in effect being replaced . |
| 19 | Even the 2 per cent figure obscured the reality : Britain was in effect being charged 1.62 per cent since repayment would not begin until December 1951 . |
| 20 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 21 | The optimal tariff increases welfare only marginally , its main effect being to redistribute welfare from farmers to government . |
| 22 | This is a wide definition and would include leasing of business equipment and vehicles ( see Chapter 13 ) , the general effect being to equate consumer hiring with instalment sales and hire purchase agreements ( see below ) . |
| 23 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 24 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 25 | One popular nineteenth century patterning was ‘ tree calf ’ , a delicate arboreal effect being produced by the interaction of chemicals . |
| 26 | The dock is provided with end gates which may be opened and closed for admission and egress of the vessel by a rising and falling sliding or pivotal motion in a vertical plane or swung on hinges as ordinary lock gates , suitable grooves or chambers being provided for the gates to work in a suitable means of making a water-tight closure being provided . |
| 27 | The prospect of a civilisation being overturned by an allowed evil getting control is a real fear for Spenser . |
| 28 | That mesh of electrofibres will stimulate excruciating pain signals in all the nerves in your flesh without any physical harm being caused to that flesh . |
| 29 | Journalists themselves as well as the party seemed almost oblivious of the harm being wrought . |
| 30 | we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . |