Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seemed quite tranquil as they walked in the sunshine through the crowded cathedral square where spectator stands were being erected ready for the Easter celebrations . |
| 2 | In the despatch area new racking is about to be erected , meeting the demand for more warehouse space and nearby the returns areas has been shifted with two inspection floors being placed adjacent to one another in a new location . |
| 3 | We are more or less aware of all this , even though it might come as a surprise to most viewers to discover how far news material is already being treated prior to transmission . |
| 4 | Investigations into the extent of the problem raised by differences in national laws are being undertaken prior to the Governing Council deciding whether the project should proceed . |
| 5 | But then what is Wonderland if not a celebration of special effects from white roses being painted red to Cheshire Cats dismantling before your eyes ? |
| 6 | And now there is Christopher Taylor who is currently being taught Berber by Professor Neil Smith and Dr Ianthi Tsimpli of London University . |
| 7 | At the time of writing the aircraft is based at Toluca , Mexico , and is being overhauled prior to its ferry flight to Galveston . |
| 8 | The period of consciousness , while the victims were being crushed prior to their death , lasted some 30 minutes at most . |
| 9 | I whimpered and pathetically tried to move the little finger of my left hand , currently being squeezed bloodless by the lattice work of fingers he had somehow contrived along the handle . |
| 10 | An initial experimental model was constructed early in 1896 , which , upon being reported satisfactory by Stone-Wigg , the chairman , was followed by a larger one built at Bulbourne near to Tring . |
| 11 | It can end in silence , this being considered preferable to choosing an incorrect word or phrase , and this is clearly nonsense . |
| 12 | Alford was none the less made a deputy lieutenant of Sussex in 1627 , his services being considered essential to the defence of the county . |
| 13 | Tampons were not allowed , being considered unsuitable for unmarried girls . |
| 14 | Others , by contrast , stress the virtues of maintaining the distinctiveness , ideas , and integrity of the individual , such virtues being considered superior to those of compromise and cooperation . |
| 15 | However , shrouded children had to wait until 1467 before being considered worthy of commemoration , and their introduction is a dramatic one on the 1467 Astley brass at Standon in Hertfordshire where ten swathed infants , four girls and six boys , are shown . |
| 16 | This is to avoid the possibility of an important notice not being considered important by a local shop manager . |
| 17 | The accident at the graphite moderated , light-water-cooled pressure tube reactor at Chernobyl occurred on 26 April 1986 when an explosion produced an uncontrollable fire which lasted several days and led to vast quantities of radionuclides being lifted high into the atmosphere . |
| 18 | After twenty five minutes Milton 's centre half , Wayne Morton took a bad knock which left him with a chest injury , and this resulted in him being substituted late in the second half . |
| 19 | reminds the reader of that moment when the shadow falls ‘ Between the potency/ And the existence ’ , or of Tiresias 's being trapped unfulfilled in sexual desire , bearing witness to all the ritualistically patterned couplings of history , ‘ throbbing between two lives ’ . |
| 20 | Support was supposed to have come from the labelmates Thrill Kill Kult , but they pulled out following an incident in Germany , when Kult singer Frantic had had his leg broken in three places after being attacked onstage by ‘ neo-nazi ’ thugs in the audience . |
| 21 | Support was supposed to have come from the labelmates Thrill Kill Kult , but they pulled out following an incident in Germany , when Kult singer Frantic had had his leg broken in three places after being attacked onstage by ‘ neo-nazi ’ thugs in the audience . |
| 22 | We heard that the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire stations lost far more men and aircraft than we did , and there was also a horrible story going around of an unfortunate rear gunner trapped in his turret as his plane landed , unable to get out and being roasted alive in full view of the ground crew , until a Wing Commander whipped out his revolver and shot him . |
| 23 | He said officers were being let loose on the roads after three-hour assessments which were little better than the ordinary driving test . |
| 24 | Here , he scored 20 in a tense hour before being caught high at mid-off by Allen off Verity . |
| 25 | It had been an horrific triple crash that had left two drivers dead , and the newsreel of that dreadful moment had shown a blazing object being catapulted clear of the wreckage . |
| 26 | By an application dated 18 March 1992 the father applied ex parte for a prohibited steps order preventing the mother from removing the four children from the care and control of the father , a specific issue order directing the mother to return A. to the father 's care and control and not to remove him therefrom and a residence order directing that the four children live with the father and that the mother return A. to the former matrimonial home and into the father 's care , all such orders being sought pursuant to section 8 of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 27 | The work on the Spanish built cars is being done free of charge . |
| 28 | He quotes the example of hard red winter wheat which has already considerably expanded northward and northwestward since 1920 — being made possible by plant-breeding programmes of more cold-hardy strains and by the introduction of new technological advances and dry land-management practices such as summer fallow and stubble mulching . |
| 29 | There is much concern in schools and local education authorities for the speed of implementation of the programme , about the need to protect the educational entitlement of all young people during the period of implementation and for the level of resources being made available during the period of change . |
| 30 | More accurate figures are being made available with improved central bank supervision of external money markets . |