Example sentences of "[noun pl] being [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 2 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 3 | Some people may remember those words being splashed across the front page of the Sun on the eve of last April 's general election . |
| 4 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
| 5 | West Germany was to be the poor relation , with all its military units being placed under the integrated command structure . |
| 6 | Plant down , with natural blood as an adhesive , is often used to form the design ; or ochre ( blood of the earth ) which has always been intimately associated with ceremonies of fertility , the invocation of rain , etc. , by tribal people in most countries , who , like the Aborigines , regard the earth as a living , breathing entity , its underground watercourses being seen in a similar light to the human arterial system . |
| 7 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 8 | Leonard 's circumcision took place , in accordance with Jewish law , on the morning of the eighth day after his birth ; several prayers of blessings being recited before the actual ceremony , at which Nathan his father offered the solemn prayer : |
| 9 | To delineate the dimensions of the problems of effectively integrating system development teams within the software production process and to examine the solutions being sought by the commercial software company which is providing research access . |
| 10 | Pakistan manager Khalid Mahmood 's suggestion of ‘ home ’ umpires being selected by the visiting team may have some merit , but only as long as the visitors have sufficient knowledge of all those on the umpires ' panel — ED . |
| 11 | Although such legal standards result in pollution concentrations being reduced to an acceptable level in a ‘ polluted ’ area , pollution in a ‘ clean ’ area is allowed to increase up to the standard . |
| 12 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |
| 13 | In 1971 , only 19.8% of the inhabitants of Wales could speak the Welsh language ( down from 27.5% in 1951 ) and only 1.7% of Scots could speak Gaelic , most of the Gaelic speakers being concentrated in the Scottish highlands and islands . |
| 14 | There is a 65-member Chamber of Deputies , most recently elected for a term of five years in April 1987 [ see p. 35180 ] , all candidates being elected from a single list put forward by the Popular Rally for Progress ( Rassemblement populaire pour le progrès — RPP ) , since October 1981 the sole legal party . |
| 15 | Spoken to a satisfactory minimum number of candidates being presented at an appropriate fee , SEFIC examinations can be carried out anywhere in the world , on any suitable premises and at any time of the year ( with at least a month 's notice ) . |
| 16 | A system of rotation was used for this crop , with coppices being taken from a different part of the wood each year . |
| 17 | The tremendous increase in oil consumption which accompanied the great burst of accumulation threatened to deplete reserves : by the early seventies considerable disquiet was expressed about the possibility of the ‘ depletion horizon ’ of known reserves being reduced below the conventional level of 25 years ' supply . |
| 18 | The Bank noted that the increase in the member-to-member movements in November and December 1986 reflected additional transactions being made through the inter-dealer brokers . |
| 19 | Ministry of Defence approval was gained many years ago and as such PAS have supplied much needed parts to the RAF 's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight , all transactions being made with the relevant release documentation . |
| 20 | There is no system in England of precepts being levied by the Central Government upon local authorities by other bodies . |
| 21 | Tuning heads are by Sperzel , the keys being finished in an attractive , satin-finished steel . |
| 22 | Korea had not just intensified the Cold War with , for example , analogies being drawn between the partitioned Korean peninsula and the divided nature of Germany ; it also placed an extra burden on American resources . |
| 23 | The Majuba boating lake area in Redcar is one of six sites being considered for a national maritime heritage centre . |
| 24 | The Doctor and Blake sat on the side of a hill watching the bones being carried from the archaeological dig to a large mechanical transporter . |
| 25 | Before the days of barbed wire and creosoted posts , all hedges were managed this way , any gaps being filled with the thorny prunings , known as dead hedge . ’ |
| 26 | The UDF claimed that the BCP was refusing to give the round table a valid role in political decision-making , including discussion of bills being submitted to the National Assembly . |
| 27 | In the consultative document , the DTI proposes two courses of action : monitoring registration of branches at Companies House to ensure that the law is not abused by companies being incorporated in a lax jurisdiction to take over a British business ; or requiring branch accounts from overseas companies which conduct all or a substantial part of their business in Great Britain . |
| 28 | It was a fundamental reorganisation , because fourteen private companies working in rivalry with one another is quite a different thing from fourteen companies being merged into a single corporation with a single objective . |
| 29 | The Commerce Minister P. Chidambaram resigned on July 9 after admitting that he and his wife had invested Rs250,000 ( about US$8,700 ) in Fairgrowth Financial Services , one of the companies being investigated in the recent securities scandal [ see pp. 38913 ; 38967 ] . |
| 30 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |