Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new BASI Constitution is being formulated and a new chief executive , Bob Kinnaird was recently appointed . |
| 2 | It was an inducement to sign and , to prevent the club 's wage structure being broken and a possible mutiny by higher-paid stars , the increment was included on his wage slips . |
| 3 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 4 | As an illustration of how it can occur , the field-worker was told of an incident in which a driver was asked to stop for failing to wear a seat-belt , upon which he sped off , necessitating a car chase , which eventually ended with two cars being wrecked and a policeman injured . |
| 5 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |
| 6 | They argue that this puts the researcher on a more equal footing with the people being interviewed and a flowed the interviewees ' own feelings to be expressed . |
| 7 | That is why 750 jobs are being shed and a whopping 32 per cent . |
| 8 | We heard him quietly talking to them , then a gun being cocked and a loud pop , followed by a moan . |
| 9 | Each complaint is being considered and an appropriate response is being considered . ’ |
| 10 | A long-running legal wrangle ensued with Gasco assets ultimately being frozen and a court undertaking secured from St Piran not to reduce its UK assets below £7m , sufficient to cover the SIB claim . |
| 11 | All date from the turn and early part of this century , two undergoing restoration , one being repaired and an interesting and varied collection of petrol and diesel locomotives , coaches and wagons . |
| 12 | Erm the Africa Inland Mission has many many missionaries there , there are a lot of American missionaries there erm and there are a lot of new churches being built and a lot of people are becoming christians in Kenya . |
| 13 | Witnesses are being sought and a reward is being offered . |
| 14 | It would therefore be very easy for the deadline to pass without the tax payment being made and an interest charge would therefore start to accumulate . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the kitchen was being gutted and an architect friend drew up an entirely new conception for the space , involving limed Spanish oak , wrought-iron brackets ( many bought at David de Spenceley 's antiques salvage warehouse in Fulham ) and 300-watt pinpoints of light hidden in the ceiling . |
| 16 | Blood tests are being offered and a special help line will be manned from today . |
| 17 | Overruns on the original budget should result in that budget being closed and a new one authorized to cover the estimated additional requirement in the next column . |
| 18 | Overruns on the original budget should result in that budget being closed and a new one authorized to cover the estimated additional requirement in the next column . |
| 19 | Part of this strategy involved local authorities being bypassed and a reliance on the regenerative power of private capital in the form of property developers . |
| 20 | After a very short time we all felt a horrible feeling of being watched and an intangible atmosphere of dread and doom . |
| 21 | Then , with a given volume of consumption goods being produced and a relatively stable demand by capitalists for consumer goods , the increased demand in the form of extra wages being paid in Dept 1 , will tend to push up the price of these consumer goods , produced by Dept . |
| 22 | A Draft Plan is being produced and a consultation programme is being put into operation . ’ |
| 23 | People from both sides of the south Armagh border are being invited and a special preacher will be Dr William Marshall , vice principal of the Church of Ireland Theological College , Dublin . |
| 24 | At the same time as these developments were being implemented , the new town corporations were being disbanded and a massive privatisation programme was well underway as industrial and domestic property in the new towns was sold . |
| 25 | Much more golf was being played and a 72 record entry was achieved for the Captain 's Prize . |
| 26 | But Gallacher said : ‘ I felt my jersey being pulled and a push in the back . |
| 27 | a new product is being introduced and a normal sales level has not yet been achieved ; |
| 28 | Instances of how some of these registers were destroyed may give us a pointer to the fate of our own ; in some cases rats and mice destroyed them , other instances of fire , damp , silver fish , some being stolen and a case where one vicar used the sheets to baste his goose . |
| 29 | In the sphere of juvenile justice , policy making is further complicated by more than one government department being involved and a wide range of statutory and voluntary services as well as the police and the penal system . |
| 30 | Their first move was to put together a leaflet containing a map of the areas being prospected and a list of concerns related to the effects of gold mining : this was distributed in June . |