Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A block of stone being brought up the slide from an underground quarry at Herston . |
| 32 | Launching the document , Bill Brett , general secretary of IPMS , said ‘ already the UK is being driven down the league table of industrially developed countries . |
| 33 | Having secured seats on the saloon deck we went to look about us , and saw another large flock of sheep being driven down the quay towards our steamer . |
| 34 | A lady in a black straw hat , who was being weighed out a Pound of grits by the grocer 's assistant , overheard . |
| 35 | But she lapsed into unconsciousness after being dumped down a 15ft embankment on the M50 where she suffered a series of blows , one of which broke her jaw , Dr Peter Acland , a Home Office pathologist , told Shrewsbury Crown Court . |
| 36 | William and Joe were busily employed , hands in pockets , watching the Francis Forbes Barton being winched up the slipway by the old capstan after a practice launch . |
| 37 | The injured man 's canoe was rescued by a speedboat after being swept up the Maisemore channel of the river and was hauled undamaged up the 15 ft high bank . |
| 38 | After that I would shower them away , and peering over my side — all in my mind — would watch them being swept down a hillside in a cleansing torrent of water . |
| 39 | As the tale came to us , my lord , the boy was seen bound and muffled , being led up the slopes from Severn into Parfois . |
| 40 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
| 41 | But while it was being chopped down the Collector and his men had emptied their guns into the hacking sepoys , and the door had become tightly jammed with the dead , many of whom still had bayonets wedged in their lifeless hands . |
| 42 | As I 've already said , being a few seconds late will not be a severe disadvantage , but being early or being forced down the line will stop you from tacking when you want to . |
| 43 | He described being taken over the years to see his sick , and finally dying and almost certainly innocent father in another prison . |
| 44 | CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 45 | There was nothing Karen had liked better than being taken on a guided tour of three or four climaxes . |
| 46 | Once they came upon Acorn , who was evidently being taken on a tour of the same kind . |
| 47 | HUNDREDS of fascinating items from Glasgow Museums are being taken on a two year tour of Britain — thanks to a sponsorship deal with the Royal Bank . |
| 48 | The 80-strong party were given a briefing on Sullom Voe 's environmental care programme at the Fraser Peterson Centre before being taken on a tour of the terminal site . |
| 49 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 50 | The second reading of the Finance Bill follows and from 1969 the bill has then been divided , clauses and schedules which involve issues of principle being taken on the floor of the House while the more detailed clauses are sent upstairs to a standing committee . |
| 51 | Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 52 | At Lough Carra , most of the fish are being taken on the dap , but wetfly was also producing some sport for Jim Stafford , who landed a nice brace at 4lb 8ozs . |
| 53 | Karen Anderson ( LibDem ) is 20/1 and no bets are being taken on the Green candidate Steven Kenwright . |
| 54 | The holes for the cold feeds must be at least 30mm above the base of the cistern to prevent any dirt or debris in the bottom of the cistern being taken down the pipes . |
| 55 | A simple way to appreciate what it means is to visualise the Spectra line being passed down a hollow tube ( the ‘ sleeve ’ ) until it appears at the other end . |
| 56 | The buck of decision is being passed down the chain of consequence . |
| 57 | That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918 . |
| 58 | He could not bear the thought of it being thrown down the well , however dangerous the alternative . |
| 59 | But a much higher premium than usual is being put on a speedy transaction . |
| 60 | We had a good write-up in the Southampton Echo , I remember we nearly drowned the reporter as he insisted on being put on a large mooring buoy in Southampton Water in order to get a photograph of Valiant at speed . |