Example sentences of "being [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restrictive practices , which Clasper had fought so hard to introduce , were being discarded at a rate of knots in the quest to increase efficiency , output and earnings . |
| 2 | In this way there is less chance of being caught at a disadvantage or being ambushed by circumstances . |
| 3 | The club is having to play all its fixtures away from home for the second successive season because a new roof is being built at a cost of £1.3million . |
| 4 | I mean I do n't know what the the the the the standing is with our knowledge of information but I would like to think that if there is er erm not a hidden agenda but agreement being made at a level , that we could share the business . |
| 5 | Spanish onions bought at a wholesale market in Birmingham were being unloaded at a depot near Evesham in Worcestershire when a worker noticed a cardboard parcel stuffed between the bags . |
| 6 | Jane , because she was a mistress , rarely had an opportunity to attend the more elegant events of society , and she was not going to miss this chance of being seen at a duchess 's ball . |
| 7 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 8 | ‘ Warm-Hearted Weekends ’ are being offered at a selection of hotels for £22 or £26 B&B per night ( tel 021-780 4321 for further information ) . |
| 9 | It was made famous by being used at a remembrance service for Falklands dead . |
| 10 | Riding on the back of a tempestuous wind , this journey became an epic of its time , being accomplished at a speed which remained unequalled until surpassed by an aeroplane more than a century later . |
| 11 | But he is making no excuses for Taylor Woodrow 's stubborn perseverance with the American contracting business which lost £12m last year and is being closed at a cost of £24m . |
| 12 | This relatively low figure no doubt results from the programme being broadcast at a time that is inconvenient to many viewers . |
| 13 | Mike and I saw a a very young child being washed at a tube well , those guiding us round the site were very impressed by this , the child was rather perplexed and surprised as normally it was taken down to the river to be washed . |
| 14 | The shadow Environment Secretary , Mr Bryan Gould , maintained water was being sold at a loss . |
| 15 | The shadow Environment Secretary , Mr Bryan Gould , maintained water was being sold at a loss . |
| 16 | The videos were part of a number of fake goods which were being sold at a market in Tewkesbury . |
| 17 | Inefficiency of this sort , which involves a given level of output being produced at a cost which is higher than the theoretical minimum , is termed X-inefficiency . |
| 18 | Beinn Alligin is the third of the great Torridon giants and more amenable than its fellows , and more honest , the whole effort of climbing to the summit ridge , traversing it and descending at the far end to return down the corrie being assessed at a glance , although probably under-estimated . |
| 19 | His notion of a European intellectual and cultural order , for example , was being asserted at a time when political events began to destroy the illusion of a common European identity . |
| 20 | There are many cases which end up being settled at a figure considerably higher than that for which the case might have settled , say , 1–2 years previously . |
| 21 | Alcuin 's opinion in 796 , as expressed in a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard following the death of Offa , was that the unity of the Church in England had been destroyed not by reasonable consideration but by lust for power ; and in 803 , when Canterbury 's rights were being restored at a council at Clofesho , Aethelheard pronounced that ‘ tyrannical power ’ had presumed to diminish Canterbury 's honour , the pope having been deceived into granting a pallium to the bishop of Lichfield by deception and lies . |
| 22 | All those concerned need to believe that the targets are being set at a level which is achievable . |
| 23 | The height of the ridge is apparently related to the amount of sediment being moved into the adjacent subduction zone where lithosphere is being subducted at a rate of about 65 mm a- 1 . |
| 24 | Is not the real problem facing many TECs the fact that their funds are being cut at a time of recession and rapidly rising unemployment ? |
| 25 | These are globally averaged values of altitude variations , the zero of altitude being taken at a pressure of 1 bar : see section 3.3.1 for the reasons for which a pressure value is an appropriate choice of zero for altitude . |
| 26 | Twin sisters , Emma and Becky Harper , died shortly after being filmed at a family party in Cheltenham . |
| 27 | DOWN THE ROAD FROM The Pub From Hell , Paul Merton is being groomed at a photo studio and shot for THE FACE in the style of his big hero , silent movie star Buster Keaton . |
| 28 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 29 | We will not accept UK farmers being put at a disadvantage by EC laws being applied differently in other countries . |
| 30 | An Indian woman being torched at a bus-stop . |