Example sentences of "being [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This oast-house conversion is rather unusual in that four kilns or ‘ roundels ’ are attached to the central storage shed , a pair being placed on both sides of this building , giving a symmetrical composition . |
| 2 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 3 | This can result from underclaiming of tax reliefs against taxable income , but it is more likely to be due to tax being stopped on some income but not reclaimed . |
| 4 | It is known from occupational medicine , that exposure to two chemicals at once can be far more damaging than being exposed to each chemical individually . |
| 5 | The official statistics reveal only a relatively small amount of such violence , yet most women are sufficiently convinced of its prevalence to organize their lives quite carefully in order to protect themselves from being exposed to such violence . |
| 6 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 7 | With different rolls being exposed to several subjects of different contrasts this is still possible with APE 100 and Rodinal if the developer is used at different dilutions . |
| 8 | There would be no " blanket de-collectivization " , and profitable collective and state farms would be allowed to continue in the context of equal opportunities being given to all forms of farm ownership . |
| 9 | When you have noted the overall length you need to produce , divide this length into suitable proportions for your argument , so that not only will you not run out of space but the essay will have a " balance " as it develops , with worked-out proportions being given to each stage . |
| 10 | Reorganization is fitted into a model which already exists without sufficient attention always being given to those parts which do not fit very well . |
| 11 | So far as state education is concerned , increasingly free rein is being given to this power . |
| 12 | Both linesmen and the referee had poor games with bad off-sides decisions being given against both sides . |
| 13 | The 5th company of the PDF , apparently surprised by the American move , slowly organised a counter-attack and gunfire was still being heard from this area yesterday morning . |
| 14 | After the Bulgarian game he was being likened to such legends as Rivera , Mazzola , Zico and even Maradona . |
| 15 | While there are signs that the situation is changing , the reasons for the subject being pervaded by such conservatism and isolationism lie in the history of its development . |
| 16 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |
| 17 | The traditional forest cultivators are now being joined in many parts of the world by subsistence peasants , new arrivals , pushing further and further into the forest , often along paths or tracks cut by lumbermen . |
| 18 | Nearly half those who killed themselves were suffering from mental illness , most of those were being treated for those problems when they died . |
| 19 | But it has to be remembered that he was now being treated by many people with extreme deference , mixed , with not a little nervousness , and it is very difficult to behave normally in such circumstances . |
| 20 | He is not being treated in any way that need worry you . |
| 21 | More patients are being treated in more specialities and with more up-to-date methods than ever before — a reflection of the hard work and high levels of professionalism of the staff who serve the people of Darlington and Teesdale . ’ |
| 22 | More patients are being treated in more specialities and with more up-to-date methods than ever before a reflection of the hard work and high levels of professionalism of the staff who serve the people of Darlington and Teesdale . ’ |
| 23 | Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen . |
| 24 | A new committee , the Joint Hospitality Industry Congress , is being formed for this purpose by the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association ( BHRCA ) , see page 8 . |
| 25 | E. P. Thompson is no doubt right to insist that a distinctive working-class culture was being formed at this period . |
| 26 | Repeated presentation of a given stimulus , therefore , will allow a network of links to be established among the elements that go to make it up ( particularly strong links being formed among those elements that tend to be sampled frequently ) . |
| 27 | Conditions of employment , accommodation , training and the relations between foreign and local workers are also being examined in this study of early labour history in the oil industry . |
| 28 | Ten practices are being examined in this study , and they collectively involve practices with a variety of software programmes on their computer systems as well as practices still utilising traditional manual procedures of control . |
| 29 | The rule is that EC competition law takes precedence over UK law , though this has not prevented merger cases being examined by both jurisdictions ( e.g. British Airways/British Caledonian , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Excellent study days and short courses on ward teaching are now being arranged in some Schools of Nursing . |