Example sentences of "[adv] being [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste . |
| 2 | The cereals grown would have formed the staple of the diet , with wheat , barley , oats and rye all being represented in the archaeological and historical records . |
| 3 | Faulkner 's local History mentions trout , pike , carp , roach , dace , perch , chub , barbel , smelt , flounder , shad , lamprey and eel all being caught in the river off Chelsea and also records nine salmon weighing 171½ lbs . |
| 4 | Their various facets are constantly being adapted in the light of changing circumstances and requirements . |
| 5 | The bed is made of a fine dense material and coarse light material , so that , after disturbance in backwashing , the former settles first and the latter afterwards , the bed thus being re-formed in the correct order . |
| 6 | It can be clipped to formal shapes so that the flowers are prevented from developing , the plant thus being covered in the delicate , lace-like foliage . |
| 7 | Based on SAP 's wide ranging R/2 management information and financial software for mainframes , R/3 is already being piloted in the UK and on the continent . |
| 8 | The event is already being advertised in the press and 90,000 tickets have gone on sale . |
| 9 | These last questions were already being raised in the heyday of Liberal Theology itself , as we shall find later in this chapter , and with devastating effect . |
| 10 | It will be interesting to see if the same thing will happen in Japan ; the Japanese manufacturers belief in the preference of the client for service over a cheaper product is already being tested in the marketplace — to their chagrin , according to contacts within the Japanese manufacturers . |
| 11 | Doubts of the sincerity of her much-advertised desire for reform were already being voiced in the early years of her reign . |
| 12 | She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows . |
| 13 | Added to the heat already being generated in the kitchen , the lack of ventilation can easily put undue strain on the system 's ability to cope . |
| 14 | The beginnings of such a growth are already being recognised in the vastly increased membership of CND , conservation groups , the Women 's Movement , and the emergence of professional lobbyists . |
| 15 | The largest scale intervention was the VISTA programme , which consisted of women scientists and technologists visiting schools to talk to children about an aspect of their jobs already being covered in the school science syllabus . |
| 16 | They worked out that the dots and dashes of the Morse code ( which were already being used in the telegraph system ) could be used by flashing lights at night and waving flags or arms during the day . |
| 17 | This interpretation was already being undermined in the 1830s as new evidence showed that the geographical provinces did indeed extend some way back into the past . |
| 18 | A number of papers covering various transport areas will be read by a panel of invited distinguished speakers but great interest is already being shown in the two Saturday , November 7th talks presented by the two local history societies . |
| 19 | ‘ This is already being reflected in the strong advance in sales and reservations we have experienced in recent weeks , ’ said Bellway 's chairman , Kenneth Bell . |
| 20 | His words , already being quoted in the pulpit , were also being used on Madison Avenue : an Esso advertisement in 1948 had had as its message " Time future contained in time past " . |
| 21 | When Murphy is shot to pieces by the sadistic Clarence Botticker ( Kurtwood Smith ) and his gang , he loses a hand and then an arm before finally being shot in the head . |
| 22 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 23 | They were afraid that if the Russian workers proved by demonstration that they were quite capable of managing their own affairs the workers of other countries would ask why their countries were not being governed in the same way … |
| 24 | If plants have anything wrong with them it may have already been there when they were obtained , or it is a sign that they are not being grown in the right conditions . |
| 25 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 26 | We did not want to be the cause of friction ; but as we were unable to ascertain what the Club had in mind by way of arrangements , we proposed tea or dinner , or , if he were not being entertained in the evening , both . |
| 27 | I became a story-teller : painting my face , filching a gaudily embroidered robe and , not being versed in the French tongue , pretending I was a traveller lately returned from seeing the fables of India and Persia . |
| 28 | The two are not being played in the First XV at the moment because they will not be available for the league matches , as they will be in Australia and Fiji with the national squad . |
| 29 | The knights of the eleventh century , not being socialised in the ‘ literate mentality ’ of these later historians , knew well enough that such institutions were not simply a ‘ neutral ’ bureaucracy guaranteeing the ‘ objectivity ’ of written documents , and they knew well enough , too , how these documents were untrustworthy . |
| 30 | To answer this question we need to know what is and is not being done in the primary visual cortex and here ow understanding has been greatly advanced by the computational approach to vision . |