Example sentences of "[adv] being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste . |
| 2 | We are apparently being drawn to the end of time , to an apocalypse ( which will happen on 21/12/2012 ) at which point some of us will achieve a mystical transformation to a more enlightened realm of being . |
| 3 | Was enough being done about the vegetation ? |
| 4 | It is , therefore , a phase of male sexuality which is purportedly being portrayed with the result that female readers are frequently belittled and diminished as they read about girls who are at one and the same time both the object of male disgust and the arousers of male sexual interest . |
| 5 | As of February 1991 it was only being fitted to the 4,000 MW Drax station in Yorkshire , although applications to fit FGD equipment to two other stations had been presented by PowerGen . |
| 6 | A one-way system down Tubwell Row for buses only being fed from the south-west down Blackwellgate with a dropping off point at the top of Horsemarket . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the library services are then not only being promoted to the wider community but also genuinely reflecting and recognising that Britain is a multiracial society ’ ( * ) . |
| 8 | On the table was part of an extensive collection of mammalia and birds , brought over by Mr Darwin , who accompanied the Beagle in its late surveying expedition in the capacity of Naturalist , and at his own expense , a free passage only being allowed by the Government . |
| 9 | We continued on our way and reached Coldstream Priory just after dark , only being admitted within the convent walls after a great deal of shouting and argument . |
| 10 | Professor Glennerster said that it was clear that the benefits won by GP fund holders were swiftly being transferred to the patients of other GPs , which is what we said would happen . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings . |
| 14 | Huge mounds of raw flintstones , imported from Kent and Norfolk , are constantly being fed into the giant automatic milling unit for calcination and grinding . |
| 15 | As the project will last for so many years , temporary improvements are constantly being made to the estate . |
| 16 | As in much self-conscious fiction , we are constantly being reminded of the fictionality of the novel , but Verbivore makes it clear that this fictionality also applies to the ‘ simulations ’ of the media which its ‘ fictions ’ purportedly replace . |
| 17 | Petty-bourgeois and peasant elements were constantly being drawn into the proletariat , bringing with them innumerable illusions . |
| 18 | According to this scenario , the maintenance of oppositional structures is constantly being protected by the masculine aspect , while its feminine counterpart strives to undermine them , and even to undermine this constitutive definition itself by the use of reversible structures echoed in the novel 's metaphoric construction . |
| 19 | The margin of the overriding plate is constantly being modified by the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath it ; volcanic material is added , sediments accumulate and the margin may be broken by strike-slip faults . |
| 20 | Their various facets are constantly being adapted in the light of changing circumstances and requirements . |
| 21 | It would be unwise to come to any firm conclusion , remembering that the majority of those we know about are amongst the sandhills which are constantly being eroded by the winds which expose them , that the eastern part of the island down to Kildalton is largely deer forest which is rarely visited except by stalkers , that there are probably many more cists to be discovered . |
| 22 | The nutter , in contrast , is constantly being caught by the police because part of being ‘ nutty ’ is absence of any real form of self-preservation . |
| 23 | But it seems we 're constantly being informed of the amazing abilities of this remarkable 22 year-old or that incredible kid just turned 21 . |
| 24 | From this steady stream of data , the number of television and radio broadcasts of every registered song , tune , or any other piece of music , is constantly being counted by the PRS . |
| 25 | She knew where the landing aircraft ought to be , her mental picture of the aerodrome traffic constantly being updated by the radio calls from other aircraft . |
| 26 | He had two persuasive arguments to support this : not only would the BEF 's line of communications to their bases in England be shortened , but the British troops , constantly being ferried across the Channel , could be concentrated in one area . |
| 27 | Unfortunately this only proves that the total costed each month to the various cost centres is correct , but does not overcome the problem of invoices or other documentation inadvertently being costed to the wrong project . |
| 28 | And finally , was she perhaps being judged by the inherent quality of the coat-hanger itself out of which her creation was made ; and if so why should she be judged by the quality of the coat-hangers on which garments are returned by the laundry her parents patronize — since that 's their responsibility should n't they share her grade ? |
| 29 | Her imagination was obviously being fed by the school and by the books . |
| 30 | 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 . |