Example sentences of "being [verb] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 2 | Resellers are being given rebates of $1,000 to $4,000 a hit depending on the System 3000 configuration . |
| 3 | ‘ He is being given rations of hay which will slowly be increased and hopefully we can cut down on the drugs . |
| 4 | I was being given lists of telephone numbers , people were coming up to me in the Comedy Store and saying , ‘ Eh , are you the bloke who 's doing these odd photos . |
| 5 | An exploration well is being drilled West of Shetland following the outstanding success of the recent 3D seismic survey over the area . |
| 6 | In a move to freeze about two-thirds of all the money in circulation , short-term seven-day banking deposits worth about $2,000 million were frozen on Jan. 1 , and the amount which investors could withdraw in cash was limited to 1,000,000 australs , the option being to accept repayment of savings in 10-year dollar bonds . |
| 7 | On Sept. 9 Gamsakhurdia announced the formation of a republican Defence Ministry ( Dzhoni Pirtskhalaishvili being named Minister of Defence on Sept. 19 ) , and ordered rebel elements of the Georgian National Guard to return to barracks . |
| 8 | The ferrets were allowed to acclimatise in the cages over 10 days , being fed pieces of prairie dog . |
| 9 | It 's our credibility as well you know we 're being told quality of service etc etc and I think it ought to be a department meeting we all ought to have the opportunity to put forward what we 're doing and where we 're going . |
| 10 | Cooke found no mention of living animals being found north of Notre Dame Bay in Newfoundland ( SON ) whilst Bousfield ( 1960 ) simply says " Southern Labrador " . |
| 11 | A dimension added to the APU framework for the purpose of this project was that of " Level " ; one of the principal aims of the research being to determine features of tasks which are associated with levels of difficulty . |
| 12 | He stayed at St Harmon little more than a year , being appointed vicar of Bredwardine , Herefordshire , at the end of 1877 . |
| 13 | Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 . |
| 14 | A noted soldier and astronomer , he served in the army under the Duke of Wellington before being appointed Governor of New South Wales . |
| 15 | In January 1989 Bernard Quinn ceased to be editor on being appointed Director of Information Services . |
| 16 | He took his account of the little balance as well as some research on centres of gravity and travelled to Rome to impress a couple of eminent intellectuals , and he succeeded , being appointed professor of mathematics at Pisa when he was 25 , though he had never had a university degree . |
| 17 | Well as you heard in that report , there 's has been strong criticism of the inquest system , which has led to deaths being investigated thouands of miles from where they happened . |
| 18 | Are not consumers still being denied freedom of choice , resulting in delays in the introduction of more humane systems of husbandry ? |
| 19 | At a time of radical change in Hungary , Nick Dallman relives his experiences at the hands of the secret and often brutal state now being dismantled State of fear . |
| 20 | In the afternoon , according to 78 Div War Diary [ KP 248 ] McCreery toured camps where DPs and surrendered personnel were being held west of Hlagenfurt . |