Example sentences of "[adj] [being] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief trade was in corn , pork , cattle and agricultural produce , on average £10 000 to £15 000 weekly being laid out in the purchase of grain . |
| 2 | Plagues by troubles with management , record companies and poor audience turn-outs — not to mention the agony of seeing their ‘ Breathing Fear ’ 45 being weighted out of the Top 75 by Gallup — band talk during the summer revolved around emigrating to the States and leaving ‘ them ’ all behind . |
| 3 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 4 | And this was all being shipped out of the dock ? |
| 5 | Compared with the billions being spent out of the road fund in England to make the motorways even wider , the cost would be chicken-feed . |
| 6 | These may be made from fencing stakes driven at an angle , the top of the first being windlassed back to the bottom of the second , and so on . |
| 7 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 8 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 9 | By the late twenties and early thirties , ‘ bus travel had taken over most of this lucrative Friday traffic ; Basfords of Towcester ran two ‘ buses and The Buckingham Orange did two return journeys from Buckingham with Jelley 's of Cosgrove , the latter two being taken over by the United Counties Bus Company in the mid-1930s . |
| 10 | And he did so with the support , not only of Hoare , who was his adjutant in all the talks with the Government , but also of Cunliffe-Lister , Hailsham , Eyres-Monsell and Davidson , the last being brought in as the best means of liaison with Baldwin . |