Example sentences of "a [noun] being [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our view such developments will only be attracted to an area if there is a clear prospect of of a site being made available as an exception to normal blank policies to meet those very specific requirements . |
| 2 | This means that enquiry is now possible under authors ( ALL authors ) , corporate authors , titles , series , subject headings ( from a thesaurus being compiled on-line ) , and class-marks . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) Until a trustee is appointed , the official receiver shall be the trustee for the purposes of this Act , and , immediately on a debtor being adjudged bankrupt , the property of the bankrupt shall vest in the trustee . |
| 4 | This group , and indeed the others who chose an ( a ) ending , argued that this developed an image of a coffin being nailed shut , thereby providing a symbolic analogue to the death of the cabinet ministers . |
| 5 | A door being pulled open . |
| 6 | Miss Ying Chueng 's departure followed complaints from a guest conductor , Gunter Herbig , and members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra , that her moans of appreciation were spoiling a performance being broadcast live on Radio 3 . |
| 7 | The survival of international banking and the euro-credit market depends on adequate money market funds in each currency , the alternative for a bank being to purchase foreign exchange with domestic currency and thus incur a potential foreign exchange risk or lend its own domestic currency to overseas borrowers , e.g. Albion Bank lends sterling to overseas customers . |
| 8 | Its purpose is to prevent the enforcement of a judgment being rendered impossible , and so justice defeated , by the dissipation of assets which would be available to satisfy the judgment . |