Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] and [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the average length of time patients spend in hospital was continually being shortened and staff dealt with more people in acute stages of mental illness . |
| 2 | Police switchboards were jammed with reports from the public of a detective being shot and hostages taken near the sleepy seaside village of Boulmer , Northumbria . |
| 3 | The evolutionary view is that the only explanation for certain practices being adopted and others discarded is that these practices enable the group which adopts them to survive and gain mastery over others . |
| 4 | The research will examine the ways in which Balinese society and culture are being reconstituted and tradition reworked as Balinese come increasingly to be defined by external agents as part of an ignorant Indonesian proletariat rather than as a viable and successful peasant society . |
| 5 | There was a sound of soft footsteps , of chains being loosened and bolts drawn back . |
| 6 | Then it was all over , and photographs were being taken and confetti thrown . |
| 7 | Most students went through their school life without being excluded and schools regarded this step as a last resort . |
| 8 | In this period of change and uncertainty I asked the Directorate how best to keep staff informed of the actions being initiated and decisions taken affecting staff in all Divisions . |