Example sentences of "[no cls] [noun] be [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time gloves were being made , hands were er hats were being made , scarves were getting made , all on hand knit . |
| 2 | Their performances are being timed , and on Sunday morning the pick of the bunch will compete for the title of Britain 's most agile dog . |
| 3 | You know , I mean a , a springboard for running for er president is being being governor . |
| 4 | Composite motion four er reference is being sought . |
| 5 | It was er potatoes were being used oh bags and bags of potatoes were used in I do n't know . |
| 6 | Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely . |
| 7 | Er and I remember er er a a very vivid occasion of being on Road , which is close by the er Hucknall Colliery about three o'clock time , when er a couple of these er er people were being escorted back towards the centre of the town , after they 'd done er a day 's work and there were lots and lots of er er er people about , men and women , who were shouting and jeering , at er at er at these at these people , who had been er who had er er violated the union decision and gone to work . |
| 8 | Erm cos I I think Mr Mr Potter and others have already referred to the fact that it there 's no evidence as yet that er demand is being siphoned off from from West Yorkshire to Selby . |
| 9 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 10 | The difficulty with standard significance tests is that their valid and effective use usually depends on the way the data are approached — for example whether the research has been designed with a specific hypothesis in mind or a less focused post hoc analysis is being carried out with a view to revealing underlying patterns . |
| 11 | He claims that by the latter half of the eighteenth century the fading ‘ monarchical law ’ of the ancien régime was being confronted by two different alternatives : the programme of the ‘ reforming jurists ’ ( classical criminology ) and that of the advocates of the prison : |
| 12 | Interactive says there is a lot of interest , and that ports of the technology for Sun Sparc and IBM RS/6000 systems are being proposed . |
| 13 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 14 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 15 | A post mortem examination is being carried out to find the cause of death and forensic officers have searched the surrounding area . |
| 16 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 17 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 18 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday on Skye . |
| 19 | Post mortem examinations were being carried out , but no details have yet been released . |
| 20 | In the case of a sale the transaction will normally go through three stages : — ( 1 ) an agreement ( which , particularly if a block of shares conferring de facto or de jure control is being sold , may be a complicated one ) ( 2 ) delivery of the signed transfer and the certificate by the seller and payment of the price by the buyer and ( 3 ) lodgment of the transfer for registration by the company . |
| 21 | Where the superannuation fund remains unconsolidated , then a fund/proprietary view is being taken : the fund is not owned by the community , therefore it is not included with the community 's accounts . |
| 22 | But when it comes to saying , ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun the evaporation/solar-flares analogy is being advanced , not in order to justify an answer to a question of fact that arises within the language-game , but in order to justify an extension of the language-game we have on Earth to the Sun . |
| 23 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 24 | BRITISH sub-aqua divers are being warned not to desecrate what the Japanese say are their biggest war graves in the South Pacific . |
| 25 | He had already advised Donleavy in his bi-weekly reports that Hurley 's security arrangements were derisory , that all sorts of people with no clear allegiance were wandering in and out of NARCOG , ostensibly selling information but just as likely collecting it ; that agents and bona fide informants were being put at risk because of this , and that future DEA or inter-agency operations might well be fatally compromised from the start . |
| 26 | At that time , the B52 bombers were being introduced in large numbers and they needed air crews for them so we 'd be crossing the Atlantic with enough crews on one ship to man almost 1,000 aircraft . ’ |
| 27 | In particular , the UITF disliked the way the goodwill debit in the p&l account was being presented separately from the profit or loss on disposal . |
| 28 | A devaluation of the rial by 23 per cent in February 1990 was initially reported as the introduction of a preferential rate in an effort to increase the remittances of foreign currency by North Yemenis working abroad ; however , by March 1990 this new rate of approximately US$1.00=12 rials was being cited as the official rate . |
| 29 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |