Example sentences of "of [noun prp] be [being] " in BNC.

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1 By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) .
2 The financial year-end of Reed is being altered to a calendar basis from the old March year-end ; the company forecasts for calendar 1992 , which relate only to Reed International , are incorporated in Table 5 .
3 By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom .
4 According to Lord Elphinstone , the candidacy of Buchanan of Aucheneen was being pressed by Dundas of Lethem , one of Montrose 's friends , a gentleman who does not seem to have hesitated to make use of the duke 's name in the course of his canvass for Aucheneen .
5 The UK side of TVS is being run down but it has a pile of cash and what could be highly profitable operations in the US via MTM .
6 And the year when the industrial base of Germany was being systematically dismantled and shipped to the victors .
7 Independent bodies like Amnesty International began to focus on the conditions in which the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait was being conducted .
8 While the textile industry was growing , the port of Chester was being blocked by river mud .
9 That is the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Department of Transport , which shows that a government-recommended deep water route around the North-West coast of Scotland is being ignored by 80 per cent of loaded oil tankers .
10 Dicey thus felt that ‘ the law of England is being ‘ officialised ’ … by statutes passed under the influence of socialistic ideas ' .
11 At first their meeting places were simple , box-like structures but by the middle years of Victoria 's reign pompous new buildings in the Gothic style favoured by the Church of England were being built instead .
12 At Ludwigsburg Leopold suspected that his attempts to gain an audience with Karl Eugen , Duke of Wurtemberg were being thwarted by the intervention of Niccolò Jommelli ( court Kapellmeister at Stuttgart ) who was attempting to prevent Germans from appearing before the Duke .
13 The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities .
14 The nomadic Awa Guajá tribe of Brazil are being condemned to extinction because of government delays in demarcating their land , according to Survival International .
15 Control of MTS is being contested by Twigrealm , a company backed by the South African meat trader Freddy Hirsch and the British property entrepreneur Stephen Wingate , and by Alpha Gamma , the property group .
16 Still to come — the seaside resort of Bournemouth is being turned into a fortress as the Conservatives start arriving for their Conference .
17 Meanwhile , injured children evacuated from the Moslem town of Srebrenica are being treated in hospitals in neighbouring Tuzla .
18 Or was she relying on the unlikelihood of Tom 's being able to defend his own corner effectively ?
19 reminds the reader of that moment when the shadow falls ‘ Between the potency/ And the existence ’ , or of Tiresias 's being trapped unfulfilled in sexual desire , bearing witness to all the ritualistically patterned couplings of history , ‘ throbbing between two lives ’ .
20 The future of Friern was being addressed by the top of the office .
21 Slowly parts of Funchal are being given a facelift , partly with tourists in mind and partly just because many of the old buildings are in danger of crumbling away .
22 He did n't think it was a case of God 's being vindictive , more a case of rules being rules and God having to administer them , like a caning head , and where there was Adultery there was always a Death , that was the way it was .
23 Its centre lies in the recognition of what impedes the sight of love , whereas Scale 2 is occupied with facilitating recognition of the nature of God 's being — love — in man .
24 The power of the sacrament is attested to not just by stories of miracles in which the devout see Christ himself present in the Host , but in terms of inward experience " wherof we haue knowynge onely by beleue with ynneforthe " [ ynneforthe : inwardly ] and the meditation ends with a prayer for the experience of the healing presence of Christ : Such cultivation of an inner experience of the reality of Christ 's being by means of affective meditation on his life is a discipline taken for granted in the writings of all the mystics to be discussed , despite their differences in emphasis .
25 If these things are true , the character of Christ is being reproduced and the organisation will be reproducing itself .
26 The lessons of UDCs are being learned by local authorities and political parties .
27 When I asked the woman in Lima in charge of the government 's tourist agency FOPTUR what image of Peru was being promoted to attract a hoped for 780 million dollars worth of tourists within the next couple of years , she told me : ‘ I could say we have everything here — the three regions , mountains , coast and jungle ; beaches and adventure .
28 For Japanese to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin , despite Japan 's success in proving herself the military and political equal of other powers , implied the virtual impossibility of Japan 's being accepted as a full equal by the industrialized nations of the West .
29 Although the idea of the Palast appealed to Frau Nordern she was not too sure of the propriety of Karl 's being whizzed around anywhere , especially on a tourist bus .
30 Devlin Parnham was a scheming man and there was little chance of Richie 's being informed of Maggie 's exact mission to Spain .
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