Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high tensile fencing instructor thought it would allow him to show trainees types of fencing in addition to the one being erected during the course . |
| 2 | Our return to the Duomo is by way of Corso Vittorio Emanuele , a pedestrian-only street that is used as an outdoor art gallery , works by contemporary sculptors being erected at intervals along the length and changed regularly . |
| 3 | To eliminate the cartage of run-of-mine stuff to the Bonsor Mill adjacent to the Deep Level mouth , a second mill was being erected at Paddy End with the reception hoppers on a horizon with Grey Crag Level and Courteney 's Cross-cut . |
| 4 | One has , for example , cottage rows being erected at Winchester apparently by individuals , and shops being built by the city corporation at Exeter and by the abbey at Tewkesbury ( 90 , pp.67–8 ) . |
| 5 | There are , for example , already more than 300 local authority solar/ low energy council house schemes in the UK and the CEGB is embarking on a programme of windmill construction and assessment — with a 3MW unit being erected on the Orkneys and ten smaller machines being deployed in East Anglia , as well as test units at Carmarthen Bay in Wales . |
| 6 | Mr. Jonathan Thomas Carr felt offended by what he considered was the ugly and tasteless housing being erected in the London suburbs , so he produced a scheme to create a garden suburb of Houses without basements , and of character within reach of people with moderate means , yet at the same time , retaining existing trees wherever possible . |
| 7 | Once assembled , the details were passed through a multiple drum-sanding machine and sent for staining and polishing before being erected in the carriage . |
| 8 | The village cross , in the Market Place , is believed to be the second cross , the current one being erected in 181 1 after the original was destroyed by workers on the Hull drainage scheme . |
| 9 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 10 | In Czechoslovakia Romanesque structures were being erected from the early tenth century , in the form of castles and churches . |
| 11 | The scuffles broke out when more than 60 protesters began tearing down a fence while it was being erected by council contractors around the trees on a strip of land at Stafford Park . |
| 12 | However , it is interesting to note that in a City History of 1830 , reference is made to ‘ the ideal dwellings for the working class now being erected by Mr. Penniston . ’ |
| 13 | AN heroic team of firefighters is being saluted for saving three people including a mother and baby son from their blazing home . |
| 14 | I loosened my shirt collar and watched a couple of generals being saluted by their chauffeurs . |
| 15 | There is no bass clarinet in A. The bass clarinet forms a solid bass for the woodwind group , often being placed below the bassoons . |
| 16 | The church was founded to guard the Romanesque bridge across the Vltava , chains being placed across the route . |
| 17 | ‘ The Waterside especially soon became en fete , festoons of evergreens , flags and flowers being placed across the street . ’ |
| 18 | The body rests upon a bed of the finest ash , a coating of india rubber , three quarters of an inch in thickness , being placed between , which has the effect of almost destroying the vibration generally attendant on the railway carriages . |
| 19 | The felt layers should be lapped by at least 150mm ( 6in ) , the upper felt being placed over the lower felt so that there is a continuous fall towards the eaves gutter . |
| 20 | The more common form shows the hands in an attitude of prayer , centre-chest height , with the fingertips touching and , occasionally , the thumbs crossed ; the second position involves the crossing of the arms with fingertips at centre chest , the right arm being placed over the left and the fingers of both hands remaining closed but outstretched ; finally , there is the attitude of total repose , legs slightly parted at the knees , the shoulders down and the hands placed over the groin , again with the right hand over the left and the fingers together yet unclasped . |
| 21 | ANGRY organisers of the International Air Show at Eglinton Airport in Londonderry , today advised people that the show would go on , despite bogus ‘ cancelled ’ stickers being placed over posters advertising the air extravaganza . |
| 22 | The only requirements are that cardboard boxes are flattened before being placed into cages and that only cardboard is deposited , unless otherwise specified . ’ |
| 23 | The boys all liked him , too — and some of them resented being placed under my care because of the fun they knew they could be having next door . |
| 24 | West Germany was to be the poor relation , with all its military units being placed under the integrated command structure . |
| 25 | A brief review of the appearance of the disease in goats was given : the six premises on which cases were thought to have occurred have been given a choice , after being placed under restriction , of slaughtering their stock receiving ex gratia payments , or remaining restricted . |
| 26 | How can he explain the position in Surrey and in St. Albans , where consultants are being placed under pressure by managers to give priority to GP fund holders because they bring extra money ? |
| 27 | Some 750,000 black peasant farmers shared 15,000,000 hectares of largely poor quality " communal " land which was being placed under ever increasing pressure by Zimbabwe 's 3.5 per cent annual population growth . |
| 28 | Fewer babies available for adoption due to changing social attitudes and access to contraceptives and abortions has led to older children being placed for adoption . |
| 29 | Secondly , the third-floor accommodation , lit only by the small clerestory windows of the nave ( composed of shallower paired lancets ) , managed to obtain the necessary amount of daylight from the glazing being placed at the rear of the original traceried stonework where the splayed internal window-revels generate an area exposed to daylight which is larger than the window area seen from outside ( Fig 46 ) . |
| 30 | By 300 the West added the birth of Jesus integrated into a solar calendar by being placed at the winter solstice . |