Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] being [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt very strongly about animals being exported live to the continent for slaughter , horses or cattle . |
| 2 | Tournaments such as Wimbledon may boast larger fields , but for some it is too costly , or inconvenient because of extensive queuing , or the possibility of play being scratched due to rain . |
| 3 | I mean yes of course we should live harmoniously together er who would y'know , sector of those people who have taken advantage of the right to buy and and so on and so forth but we talking about housing management in about housing management costs and if you have an estate of y'know being repaired similar houses which a lot of our estates are , it makes sense that they 're managed as it were centrally er and because that 's the most efficient way of doing it erm if you have a variety of different landlords in er one estate or one street and all the houses are similar , when it comes to things like modernisation and so forth it it 's duplicated a great deal of er er er of work and it is not cost efficient and it does n't make any common sense at all . |
| 4 | According to UK market researcher Romtec , the number of units being sold direct as a percentage of the total market has increased from 12 per cent in 1990 to 39 per cent in 1992 . |
| 5 | This interesting and varied collection reflects the numbers of aircraft being made available as Russia strives to get hard currency . |
| 6 | BARCLAYS Bank has spent more than £5m equipping its 1,500 sales staff with laptop computers it claims will limit the likelihood of clients being given unsuitable advice . |
| 7 | The emphasis throughout the novena was on prayer , and the talks focused on the real and imminent threat of euthanasia being given legal approval in our country . |
| 8 | The magazine 's loss of circulation was dramatic , and Lord Denning thought that Goldsmith 's tactics were oppressive : " The freedom of the press " he stated " depends on the channels of distribution being kept open " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The terms of reference for this review stated very clearly that the extent of resources being made available for community care was not being questioned . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding these drawbacks a large proportion of international trade is conducted on an open account basis with the documents of title being sent direct to the importer . |
| 13 | There were two days of clashes on June 9-10 with the National Guard over bus fare increases in Acarigua , Portuguesa state , in the Andean town of Valera and in Ocumaré del Tuy , dozens of people being reported injured and nearly 200 being arrested . |
| 14 | By the mid-1950s , the actual level of demand being experienced averaged 8 per cent more than the compromise estimate which had been adopted in determining the forward programmes . |
| 15 | It is so grave , because , on any view , the putting to death of a human being by the society to which he belongs is an appalling act , calculated in itself rather to familiarise that society with the taking of life than to heighten the sense of life being held sacred . |
| 16 | Uneven allocation of notation to subjects with the same size of literature , ( or the same number of subdivisions being allocated different notational space ) will cause notation for some subjects to be exceptionally long . |
| 17 | These included the rationalization of the State Intelligence Secretariat ( SIDE ) , with one-third of employees being made redundant and buildings and vehicles auctioned off ( the SIDE chief , Juan Bautista Yofre , announcing his resignation at the end of the month and being succeeded by Hugo Anzorreguí ) , and the creation of a central body to supervise the finances of public-sector companies due for privatization . |
| 18 | I am always fascinated to hear Liberals going on about resources being made available for defence , when they are committed to cutting them by 50 per cent . |
| 19 | In a buoyant market , with deals being done left , right and centre , chartered surveyors were too often seen as ‘ brokers ’ . |
| 20 | Many people will be concerned at my suggestion that drawing should be taught in our schools , perhaps fearing that it will take us back to the kind of dull lesson I have described , with children being taught unimaginative and stereotyped ways of drawing . |
| 21 | The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space . |
| 22 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 23 | But in the very early 1970s the dangers of infantile obesity and dehydration were well publicized and the rate of tiny babies in Sheffield being fed unmodified milk powder dropped from 90 per cent to 0 per cent . |
| 24 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 25 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 26 | Most of the argument has related to the divided profession 's respective rights of audience discussed above , with much of the argument centring on solicitors being granted full rights of audience before the higher courts , especially the Crown Court . |
| 27 | Figure 4.11 ( cont. ) ( b ) Same data as Figure 4.11(a) but with countries without data being left blank . |
| 28 | It wanted newspapers and the radio to be able to report where things went wrong , especially if this led to matters being put right . |
| 29 | I wondered what would count as an adequate educational response to individuals being labelled deviant , a response which would not simply take for granted that certain acts were or were not deviant but would look at the whole context of the interaction . |
| 30 | The cuts will hit managers , clerical and computer staff and could lead to workers being made redundant before Christmas , said the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union . |