Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] being [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than anything else , Simon 's report put an end to any immediate prospect of the acts being extended to civilian towns . |
| 2 | On arrival in New York , Detroit , or points west , the DEA ‘ mules ’ would be met by DEA agents in the baggage claim area and escorted through Customs , the loads being kept under continuous surveillance until deals were struck and the heroin changed hands . |
| 3 | He would have been better still , however , to have decided differently , and to have agreed to at least some of the cases being re-examined for possible pardon . |
| 4 | The skills being wasted on unwanted buildings should be used to prop up houses ? — . |
| 5 | General practitioners need assurance that control of expenditure will result in the savings being retained in local health care . |
| 6 | Wealthy families would while away their days at the baths being massaged with aromatic oils by the unfortunate eunuch slave whose sole function in life was to knead and pummel his master . |
| 7 | Present-opening sessions are generally unpredictable affairs , the pictures being shot with mobile camera on a catch-as-catch-can basis with the sound mostly consisting of the rustling of wrapping paper being undone and the excited squeaks of the recipients . |
| 8 | During the Second World War , the depot was requisitioned and used by R.A.F. Technical Training Command , the cars being dispersed to other depots or broken up . |
| 9 | By simply writing to the Mailing Preference Service , you can have your name deleted from almost all the lists being used by direct mail companies . |
| 10 | Lord Attlee 's memoirs , for example , as well as Sir John Wheeler Bennett 's biography of George VI described a number of views held by the King without the authors being accused of constitutional impropriety . |
| 11 | Part-time farming was confined to smallholdings on the outskirts of villages with the smallholders being employed in neighbouring towns as teachers , lecturers , etc . |
| 12 | West Germany had already decided to impose a duty on carbon dioxide emissions , with the proceeds being invested in energy-efficient technology . |
| 13 | We can , for example , examine the consequences of increasing a particular tax , with the proceeds being spent on current government expenditure , which does not affect savings decisions , there being no other change in government policy . |
| 14 | It is broad and low with wide , pointed , quadripartite stone vaulting , the vaults being supported on columned corbels with foliated capitals . |
| 15 | To buy and run the above mentioned Cavalier and Mercedes-Benz , the two drivers would have to earn an extra £4900 and £10,916 respectively ( the calculations being based on cost-per-mile figures from industry analysts ) . |
| 16 | Much of the planned research involves fieldwork based on samples of manufacturing plants in the countries to be compared , the plants being matched for industrial sector and size employment . |
| 17 | Until then I 'd never had any intimation of what was being done nowadays in the field of biblical research , or of the attacks being launched by competent historians . |
| 18 | As a result of the advances being made in veterinary medicine our dogs are healthier , live longer and are able to enjoy a more active life than their predecessors . |
| 19 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |
| 20 | Irish women cried as they heard from two Chilean women of the horrors being committed in post-Allende Chile . |
| 21 | As I said earlier , we are also able to look at the successes being achieved by other trust status hospitals elsewhere . |
| 22 | One objection that is bound to be raised by those who are conditioned to defending the status quo is to point to the current labour market and the difficulties being experienced by young people attempting to find work . |
| 23 | As chair of the London group of Labour Members of Parliament , I should like to consider the difficulties being experienced by other London boroughs . |
| 24 | The recession , education , health , taxation , etc. are all being hotly debated , but nobody mentions the problems being experienced by social services , so vital to disadvantaged people , the chronically sick and disabled people , and the mighty army of the elderly . |
| 25 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 26 | The internal and external threats faced by many countries " hardly justify the sums being spent on armed might " , and finance agencies were " entitled to ask whether it makes sense to help governments whose first priority is not to develop , but to add to , military strength " . |
| 27 | The prices being asked for vacant buildings in Manchester were quite high , being based on ‘ hope value ’ rather than use value . |
| 28 | In practical terms what was at stake was the need to close the price scissors , as Trotsky termed it , that is , the disparity between the high prices for industrially produced consumer goods and means of production , compared to the prevailing world market prices , and the prices being paid for agricultural produce . |
| 29 | During the reign of Elizabeth I , English seamen such as Drake , Hawkins , Grenville and Raleigh exasperated the Spanish by their expeditions to the Americas , and the Roman Catholic King Philip of Spain also considered Elizabeth I a heretic ; so he despatched a great fleet of galleons , in 1588 , named ‘ The Armada ’ , to sail up the English Channel and transport a Spanish army of invasion from the Netherlands , but the smaller British ships played havoc with the mighty ships during their journey and stormy weather drove the remnants of the Armada around the British Isles , most of the ships being wrecked at various points , including the Atlantic west coast of Ireland . |
| 30 | My focus here will be upon those issues which have arisen because of the challenges being made to pre-existing ideas about : |