Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 2 | Every log , as it is picked up , can be examined as an individual work of art — shape , grain , colour , weight — before being placed carefully on the fire in the correct position , to give its own artistic display of pyrotechnics . |
| 3 | Original intentions to replace large-scale institutions with statutory services provided in the community have increasingly been modified , with a growing emphasis being placed instead on the role of families , friends and neighbours as the main providers of ‘ community care ’ . |
| 4 | Lighting was provided by a main bulb in a brass-rimmed glass bowl in the centre of the ceiling , with other bulbs along the edge , one being placed conveniently near the bulkhead to illuminate the tail lamp bullseye . |
| 5 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 7 | They 've changed it again as well , now , now instead of the er , the white ball being placed anywhere in the anywhere behind the black line at the top . |
| 8 | He 's being posted out to the West Indies and he 's asked her to marry him and go with him . |
| 9 | There will usually follow some negotiations with the promoters and these may lead to an amendment to the order , to the insertion of a protective clause to meet the various objections , or , quite frequently , to an undertaking being given apart from the order in consideration of the withdrawal of the petition . |
| 10 | And owning two British cars is quite good at a time when our motor industry is being given away to the Japanese , along with assorted golf courses . |
| 11 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 12 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 13 | It was in fact a large room divided in two , one half being given over to the mistress 's wardrobe and dressing stool , with the pier-glass in the corner , the other providing a small chamber with room only for a cot bed . |
| 14 | Parking was horrendously difficult , the off-street parking being given over to the Volvos , Rovers and BMWs of the conference-goers . |
| 15 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 16 | A member of staff from Finance contacted the team concerned that her name was being given out on the radio . |
| 17 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 18 | The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box . |
| 19 | It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster — and there used to be a large car park there . |
| 20 | ‘ The hearing into the eviction order is being heard ahead of the other action , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But of fat fairies bearing hot sweet tea there was never a sign and the fingers of the station clock jerked away the minutes with maddening languor , the tedium of their watch being broken only by the intermittent arrivals and departure of train . |
| 22 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 23 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 24 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 25 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 26 | Bob Geldof 's initiative resulted in the biggest ever sum of money being wrung out of the haves on behalf of the have-nots ; in itself and in isolation an admirable achievement . |
| 27 | So Scotland is being treated well under the measures . |
| 28 | The problem with this argument is , of course , that market forces may sometimes fail , owing to the fact that the customer may not be in a position from which to tell whether he is being treated fairly by the financial conglomerate . |
| 29 | Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad . |
| 30 | Replacement equipment was being flown out to the rig from the helicopter 's base at Aberdeen . |