Example sentences of "[being] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 2 | This I had seen happen in the lives of others , resulting in the despairing situation of looking on hopelessly at all the work and tender loving care lavished on a place being relentlessly returned to rampaging nature , and unable to muster the physical strength and mental resolve to do anything about it . |
| 3 | The worst atrocities took place in the corridors running off the hall where he had been horrified to see " a man lying on the floor , obviously powerless and done for , being mercilessly kicked and horribly handled by a group of Blackshirts " . |
| 4 | A number of archers stood ankle-deep in the slush , practising at the butts , whilst others were being mercilessly drilled by the serjeants . |
| 5 | It was bad enough being mercilessly teased and tantalized , without having to listen to this sort of humbug . |
| 6 | Instead of his Report being vigorously opposed at that Committee ( remember the Committee 's constitution was of 2:1 bondholders in the majority ) , it was accepted 9:2 ! |
| 7 | This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine . |
| 8 | Any vines that dare to lean against this tree risk being vigorously chewed . |
| 9 | The inspectorate 's recommendations are now being vigorously addressed under the leadership of the present director of social services , Mr. Brian Waller . |
| 10 | Early trials of the new drug took place at a time when the transplantation of kidneys and other organs was being vigorously investigated . |
| 11 | The use of sunlight to generate electricity is being vigorously pursued — a great deal of money is being invested in the improvement of photovoltaic cell technology . |
| 12 | There was still no news of Alex Household though police investigations were being vigorously pursued . |
| 13 | reported that overdue subscriptions were being vigorously pursued . |
| 14 | Eysenck claims that criminals tend to rate highly on two personality characteristics — extroversion and neuroticism — both of which he sees as being predominantly inherited . |
| 15 | Ally Donaldson , to his credit , gave the impression of being grimly determined to answer those who say he does n't tackle but he was not the naturally punitive defender who was so badly needed in view of the back row 's shortcomings . |
| 16 | He ca n't help being rather touched by the young man 's enthusiasm about it all . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) ) , and a board is not entitled to refuse his application without hearing him or his representative unless he does not attend after being duly cited ( subs . |
| 18 | The Abbot of the Abbey of St Mary , John Blake , built two fulling mills in the town during the 16th century , these being duly noted by the much-travelled Leland who , in 1535 , describes them as ‘ being wonderfully necessary by cause the town standith all by clothing ’ . |
| 19 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 20 | My apartment was cosy and compact — hall , sitting-room , two bedrooms , the one at the back being rarely used , kitchen and bathroom — all in good decorative order . |
| 21 | This has important consequences for the delivery of legal services , which are only now being slowly realized . |
| 22 | More and more after these scenes he felt worn out , drained — as if his life were being slowly refined down to a point . |
| 23 | She felt the merest of touches on her hair and then she was being slowly turned around . |
| 24 | He strongly denied the suggestion that the militias were unruly , and said they were being slowly incorporated into the regular army . |
| 25 | In clear skies sulphur was being slowly oxidised and deposited . |
| 26 | Better ( > ) cold air or being slowly fanned , better ( > ) once discharge has started . |
| 27 | The place is apparently being slowly abraded by a fine , stinging dust blown across Patagonia by the unceasing gales . |
| 28 | He says that the recession caused major problems for some businesses — he thinks they are now being slowly resolved . |
| 29 | In Brazil the forests are being indiscriminately destroyed and many indigenous peoples , like the Yanomami Indians , are being slowly wiped out as gold prospectors and others invade their lands , poison their rivers , and bring disease and death in their wake . |
| 30 | Horsley was being slowly crippled by a rare type of paralysis spreading from his ankle , which meant that he now had to walk with a stick , and which it was feared would eventually put him in a wheelchair . |