Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Damems a building to the profile of the original station is being erected thus replacing the previous ‘ hutmonts ’ from Manchester Central — I hope the splendid Leeds ‘ Niagara ’ Water Closet from the former buildings will be reinstated here ! |
| 2 | Is a house being erected only a building when its roof is on ? |
| 3 | The conflict is between an essentially moral stance which prizes consistency and uniformity in the application of standards ( similar discharges should be similarly controlled in degree and kind ) and a utilitarian approach concerned with effect on water quality , regardless ( again , in theory , at least ) of the means of the discharger or the demands fortuitously being placed unequally on similar dischargers ( see generally Ackemman et al , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 5 | The UK polytechnics have performed a signal service to higher education by showing how professional education can be developed , with practice being placed firmly in a framework of systematic intellectual exploration . |
| 6 | She was unable to see the thick , penis-shaped dildo being fitted to the piston rod , or the big machine being placed strategically by her rear end . |
| 7 | Every log , as it is picked up , can be examined as an individual work of art — shape , grain , colour , weight — before being placed carefully on the fire in the correct position , to give its own artistic display of pyrotechnics . |
| 8 | Original intentions to replace large-scale institutions with statutory services provided in the community have increasingly been modified , with a growing emphasis being placed instead on the role of families , friends and neighbours as the main providers of ‘ community care ’ . |
| 9 | Lighting was provided by a main bulb in a brass-rimmed glass bowl in the centre of the ceiling , with other bulbs along the edge , one being placed conveniently near the bulkhead to illuminate the tail lamp bullseye . |
| 10 | And Galashiels being placed where it was on the between four counties , th you had Berwickshire , Peebleshire , Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire all having a part . |
| 11 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 13 | Indiscriminate enthusiasm for dovetailing may also sometimes lead to the 1st horn being placed too high . |
| 14 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 15 | Demolition charges had also been carefully set on machinery in the fish meal and other factories ; these small charges of gun cotton being placed so that they destroyed equipment without the risk of causing needless casualties . |
| 16 | They 've changed it again as well , now , now instead of the er , the white ball being placed anywhere in the anywhere behind the black line at the top . |
| 17 | The importance of this Sunday is being realised more and more as the Churches face the sharp edge of unemployment . |
| 18 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 19 | George frowned sharply , irritated at being stopped just as he was getting well into his stride . |
| 20 | That 's being stopped though |
| 21 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 22 | Even when only historic costs are being recognized there are still subjective judgements which have to be made to produce balance sheets and income statements : how much depreciation to charge ; how to calculate the closing stock figure ; what provision to make for doubtful debts , etc . |
| 23 | Of importance in all of this was the CNAA , and it ‘ is steadily being recognized how significant an innovation this was in education ’ . |
| 24 | From the gallery the main staircase leads up to a first-floor open-plan living/dining-room/kitchen area , the hefty roof timbers of the old barn being exposed overhead . |
| 25 | A better solution is to split the take into two shots , the first ( pre-tilt ) one being exposed normally , and the second ( tilted ) one being given the correction . |
| 26 | After reading a report of his Relief Inspector , Trevelyan sympathised with his being exposed daily to : |
| 27 | In 1990 , a cluster of increased incidences of leukaemia in young children around Sellafield nuclear power plant in north-west England was explained as being due to reproductive cells in fathers being exposed occupationally to a radiation total dose of over 100 mSv ( Gardner et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | In the first case , each text is given its own header , with any material common to all texts being factored out to an overall corpus header . |
| 29 | Twelfth seed Ros Nideffer went out 4–6 6–2 10–8 to US qualifier Katrina Adams in a second round match resumed after being halted overnight at 5–5 in the final set . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |