Example sentences of "being keep [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This swap-out , however , which the spokeswoman attributed to the processor being kept separate from the I/O , would depend on AST developing one of its Cupid upgrade modules to handle it , according to sources close to the company . |
| 2 | The crew is being kept separate from the migrants at Kwajalein base , a missile test range leased from the Marshall Islands government . |
| 3 | While similar region versus district confrontations elsewhere in Scotland are deliberately being kept low-key , particularly in Labour-dominated areas , there are signs of open warfare in Highland , where the political parties have only limited influence . |
| 4 | Newcomen got round this difficulty by fitting a leather skirt on top of the piston , this being kept supple by filling it up with water . |
| 5 | Those of Gide 's travel journals published as Amyntas are even more revealing of this process whereby loss of self becomes a discovery of self ; both selves , the centred and the dispersed , being kept alive , both being necessary for the lyrical , unorthodox Western narrative which Gide maps on to the African landscape and his own illicit sexuality within it . |
| 6 | now possible to deprive many a patient of a fulfilment of the wish to have a death of one 's own , the scene Dr. Rynearson ( whose work he is discussing ) describes is one of patients with an ‘ untreatable ’ disease being kept alive indefinitely by means of tubes inserted into their stomachs , or into their veins , or into their bladders , or into their rectums — and the whole sad scene thus created encompassed within a cocoon of oxygen which is the next thing to a shroud . |
| 7 | As Jane Gordon mentioned in her article , there can be no doubt that Marion , fatally injured in a car crash but being kept alive by a machine , wanted her child . |
| 8 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 9 | Boy did n't complain about being kept awake in this way . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope Father is not being kept awake by his arthritic troubles . ’ |
| 11 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 12 | ‘ I was upset at being kept awake by people snoring , ’ said Fintan , but after a moment he got up and went off to the buttery himself , ‘ because we need to know if the parsley butter is ready , ’ he said rather defiantly . |
| 13 | Neighbours were being kept awake by the noise . |
| 14 | This seems fairly remarkable and it can only be assumed they are being kept awake by ghost stories and surveys about what people do in bed . |
| 15 | When her husband returns , she first pretends that the cat has taken them , but when he does not believe this reassures him that the birds are being kept hot and that he should fetch his knife to cut them . |
| 16 | I ca n't see it being kept quiet from the press for too long . |
| 17 | She was born with a blockage in her nose which hindered breathing , so an airway is being kept open by a small tube . |
| 18 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 19 | However , the Department supports the right to seek a late appeal being kept open . |
| 20 | The magazine 's loss of circulation was dramatic , and Lord Denning thought that Goldsmith 's tactics were oppressive : " The freedom of the press " he stated " depends on the channels of distribution being kept open " . |
| 21 | The Labour party in this county , values the role of small rural schools , but we are not prepared to see urban schools suffer to make sure that urb , rural schools are kept open for the sake of being kept open . |
| 22 | In the programme , hosted by Sue Lawley , the three will answer the questions separately , at a London venue being kept secret for security reasons . |
| 23 | Mr Ken Hipwood of Anglian Water said that the costs of dealing with the nitrate problem had been calculated but they were being kept secret . ’ |
| 24 | Staff have reported a massive response to the ‘ January sale ’ , but exact numbers are being kept secret . |
| 25 | The identity of the soldier was being kept secret last night . |
| 26 | The Sicilian pensioner , whose identity is being kept secret , was inseminated using the frozen sperm of her husband , who died a year ago , and a donated egg . |
| 27 | Details are being kept secret . |
| 28 | No one knows how big the contribution was and the price paid for the electricity is being kept secret . |
| 29 | The Independent of Aug. 19 reported that a second country was known to be developing the missile with Israel , but that its identity was being kept secret . |
| 30 | The coal is then combined with various chemicals ( details of which are being kept secret ) which , during combustion , react with the organic sulphur and turn it into ash , thereby preventing its escape into the atmosphere . |