Example sentences of "[num] [noun] being [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that do n't accept terms by June 30 risk being declared surplus and laid off . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of the people I spoke to said they saw six people being shot dead near the US embassy compounds , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ Most of the people I spoke to said they saw six people being shot dead near the US embassy compounds , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Instead of the difference between one person being kept busy and ten people being kept busy , you have the difference between one person with nothing to do and one person with a lot to do . |
| 5 | On March 22-23 protest meetings and marches condemning the murder were reported to have taken place across the country , with one soldier being reported killed and several people wounded in the Policarpa slum district of Bogotá . |
| 6 | The UK Queen 's Awards for Industry system has been extended this year to include an environmental category , with twelve companies being judged worthy of recognition for a " significant advance " offering " major benefits in environmental terms compared to existing products , technology or processes " . |
| 7 | Instead of the difference between one person being kept busy and ten people being kept busy , you have the difference between one person with nothing to do and one person with a lot to do . |
| 8 | On Dec. 13 a clash between ethnic Georgian police officers and Ossete militants resulted in three of the Georgians and one Ossete being shot dead in the regional capital , Tskhinvali , whereupon the Georgian Supreme Soviet immediately introduced a state of emergency in Tskhinvali and South Ossetia 's second town of Dzhava . |
| 9 | Slumping domestic sales and high interest rates meant that key industrial activity fell by 11 per cent in 1990 , with over 1,000,000 people being made unemployed . |
| 10 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |