Example sentences of "being [vb pp] every " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Building societies were legally recognized in 1812 , and the first Act of Parliament to regulate them was passed in 1836 , when some 150 societies were being formed every year . |
| 2 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 3 | Under the new regulation , which was to become effective in October 1990 , the Commissioner would have the sole authority to examine , and if necessary to veto , any merger where the joint world-wide turnover of the merging companies already exceeded 5,000 million ECU per annum , of which 250,000,000 ECU from each company came from the EC , which threshold being revised every four years . |
| 4 | I 'm the one in the middle , the one that 's being squeezed every day . |
| 5 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 6 | Since this Act came into effect , deportations have increased threefold to a rate where over 300 Black people are being deported every month . |
| 7 | I 've just seen a tape of the BBC 's The Gospels , produced by Jack Emery , which is being shown every day during Easter week . |
| 8 | Taught in universities and colleges around the country , ‘ C ’ is here to stay and is being used every day to produce Windows programs and the like . |
| 9 | With over 50,000 children being helped every year the ravages of the recession have left the NSPCC with a £2.2m deficit . |
| 10 | Four million hectares of Siberian forest are being logged every year . |
| 11 | The dog was ‘ conditioned ’ by a bell being sounded every time it was fed . |
| 12 | Most of the 244 members of the Rajya Sabha are indirectly elected by the state assemblies ( one-third being replaced every two years ) while all but two of the 544-members of the Lok Sabha are directly elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 13 | Most of the 244 members of the Rajya Sabha are indirectly elected by the state assemblies ( one-third being replaced every two years ) while all but two of the 545-members of the Lok Sabha are directly elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 14 | Lunch league : Officials at the Oak Leaf Sports Complex at Newton Aycliffe have announced that they will be organising a lunchtime five-a-side league with matches being played every Tuesday from February 18 . |
| 15 | Here in Liverpool , elderly people are being hurt every day . |
| 16 | We have a huge increase in long-term unemployed , and more job losses are being announced every week . |
| 17 | If I 'm actually being charged every time I use my credit card I would n't use it . |
| 18 | The good dealer was something of a social worker as well as a salesman , developing a very intensive relationship with clients who did n't mind being churned every day . |
| 19 | In fact , railway bills were being passed every session which made a grosser interference , but that was not the point . |
| 20 | ENOUGH electricity to light Basingstoke is being wasted every night by people too lazy to switch off their remote control televisions at the mains . |
| 21 | She kept her eye on things generally , such as : tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid ( caught out bypassing Lizzie 's careful instructions ) that pos were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed , as well as being emptied every morning . |
| 22 | Estimates that 11 million hectares of forest are being lost every year have recently been revised upwards to 17 million . |
| 23 | With 6,000 manufacturing jobs being lost every week and 1,000 businesses a week going under , what action does he intend to take before more of our industrial capacity is lost altogether ? |
| 24 | on last year , we now have one of the lowest growths in manufactured output in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries , and 3,000 manufacturing jobs are being lost every day , why did the Government fail yesterday to take any action to bring about a recovery in wealth-creating manufacturing industry ? |
| 25 | We see jobs being lost every week as our employers cut back to try and outbid each other not in the interests of defence of this country but purely because of political dogma . |
| 26 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive , headed by a President elected for four years , the legislative branch , Congress , which comprises the Senate ( with 100 members who sit for six years , one-third being elected every two years ) and the House of Representatives ( with 435 members elected every two years ) , and the judicial branch , headed by the Supreme Court . |
| 27 | New trilobites are being discovered every year , and there is always the possibility of finding one with its legs preserved ! |
| 28 | And there are new techniques being discovered every day — why , the Great War alone brought us many new methods of surgery and medicine . " |
| 29 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 30 | Most varieties benefit from being divided every couple of years , indeed many of the doubles will fade away without regular division ; immediately after flowering is the best time . |