Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [being] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raindrops against the window sounded like a handful of gravel being hurled at the glass by the strong wind . |
| 2 | There is another kind of experiment being performed at the electron-positron storage rings at DESY , the German particle-physics laboratory in Hamburg . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , however , in normal flight the wing ( or coupled wings ) moves in a path such that a point on its surface describes an irregular loop or an elongate figure-of-eight with respect to the wing-base , the long axis of the plane of vibration being inclined at an angle to the long axis of the insect ( Fig. 38 ) while the angle at which the surface of the wing is held changes throughout the cycle . |
| 4 | Inefficiency of this sort , which involves a given level of output being produced at a cost which is higher than the theoretical minimum , is termed X-inefficiency . |
| 5 | Sound had vanished as well : of the blows of a wood-axe and the shout of a drover , of children calling and the crow of a cock ; the beast-sounds from the byres and the fields ; the groan and clank of a winch at a well ; the clack of loom-shuttles and women 's voices chattering over them ; the brazen voice of a meat-cauldron being scoured and the squelch and fizz of cloth being pounded at the washing-stones in the side streams . |
| 6 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 7 | These are globally averaged values of altitude variations , the zero of altitude being taken at a pressure of 1 bar : see section 3.3.1 for the reasons for which a pressure value is an appropriate choice of zero for altitude . |
| 8 | It was the kind of notepaper being used at the Zoological Society at the time , and completely unlike anything ever used by Darwin . |