Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village cross , in the Market Place , is believed to be the second cross , the current one being erected in 181 1 after the original was destroyed by workers on the Hull drainage scheme . |
| 2 | A minority approved , as did this departmental head , the greater emphasis being placed on factual information : ‘ I welcomed the national curriculum . |
| 3 | The programmes of regional type are research-oriented ; an increasing emphasis is being placed on environmental protection . |
| 4 | Among many intermediate positions would be the view that puritan ideals resulted in a higher value being placed on certain forms of science , notably those promising practical benefits , as in agricultural and medical reform . |
| 5 | In exhorting local authorities to ensure that there is sufficient land for housebuilding ( and that adequate consultations are maintained with the industry ) , emphasis is now being placed on five-year supply' periods . |
| 6 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 7 | Regular review sessions will be held to monitor progress in all aspects of the programme , with emphasis being placed on personal and social development . |
| 8 | With the emphasis being placed on long-run equilibrium , percentage changes in the rate of interest can be expected to be zero ( is a proxy for the return on a wide range of assets ) and the is the rate of change of output governed by real influences such as factor supplies and their productivities . |
| 9 | It is not as if the blame was being placed on Labour counties , for in only one case where a Conservative or hung district had a poll tax of over £400 ( Derby ) did Labour control the county . |
| 10 | Insufficient domestic savings results in greater reliance being placed on external finance from international banks , capital markets and international agencies . |
| 11 | A body wrapped in an Army blanket was being placed on one of the stretchers and a Commando with a bad face wound was being helped into the seat next to the driver . |
| 12 | We warmly welcome the duty being placed on local authorities to recognise the offshore impacts of coastal developments and vice versa . |
| 13 | This oast-house conversion is rather unusual in that four kilns or ‘ roundels ’ are attached to the central storage shed , a pair being placed on both sides of this building , giving a symmetrical composition . |
| 14 | New pullets will have the very valuable advantage of being placed on fresh land where there is little , of any , build-up of parasites and bacteria . |
| 15 | The work earmarked for the Alton plant also includes creating additional treatment capacity to cope with the waste from households in the out-lying villages who are now being placed on main drainage . |
| 16 | Increasingly emphasis is being placed on co-operative work and sharing of text files . |
| 17 | Additional orders are also being placed with other yarn spinners to keep pace . |
| 18 | The chapter first provides a critical overview of the standard ‘ referential communication task ’ , where a child 's skills are gauged when required to communicate with another about an array of objects or drawings , while speaker and hearer can not see one another , being placed behind opaque screens to encourage verbal and preclude non-verbal communication . |
| 19 | We can also , through being placed within complete physical limitations , discover our freedom to transcend these and attain knowledge unfettered by physical constraint . |
| 20 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 21 | Families have also suffered as a consequence of the freezing of child benefit for three years in succession and the greater emphasis being placed upon means-tested family credit . |
| 22 | Great emphasis is being placed upon local decision making thereby giving regional management much more direct control and financial responsibility for their business . |
| 23 | For older mentally handicapped children , it offers an excellent method by which they can develop independent domestic skills without being placed in total isolation . |
| 24 | Children — Custody rights — Breach — Mother granted interim custody by Ontario court — Defined access order in favour of father — Mother removing child from Canada without father 's consent — Whether removal unlawful — Whether custodial rights vested in Ontario court — Whether risk of child being placed in intolerable situation if returned to Canada — Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 ( c. 60 ) , Sch . |
| 25 | Under the gruff tones she could feel his sympathy for her at being placed in such an awkward situation , and she made an effort to summon up some anger at his being sorry for her , but she could n't . |
| 26 | The client must consent in writing to his money being placed in such an account after a proper opportunity to consider that information ; ( 8 ) If the firm has any ground ( other than the absence of an acknowledgement as described above ) for believing that client money held in a particular bank account outside the UK will not be protected as effectively as it would be if held in a free money bank account in the UK ; ( 9 ) If the firm proposes not to pay interest on client money in accordance with the client money regulations . |
| 27 | The two bodies are often at loggerheads , and there are constant disputes over methods : are the newcomers best served by direct absorption — being given money and subsidies for their first year and then left to cope on their own , or by being placed in one of the 38 Jewish Agency absorption centres . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Winston Scott has been transferred to Albany prison on the Isle of Wight , where he was on hunger strike for a week after being placed in solitary confinement . |
| 29 | Two refuse collectors were recently stabbed by hypodermic syringes which had been incorrectly disposed of by being placed in domestic waste . |
| 30 | A similar number ran away after being placed in local authority care . |