Example sentences of "[adv] [being] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canisters , which may be from an officially charted dump midway between the Isle of Man and the Kintyre peninsula , floated to shore after apparently being set loose by recent storms . |
| 2 | The full results of the survey , which was carried out by Inform Corporation , are only being made available to the 587 firms which took part . |
| 3 | In 1419 the town suffered greatly because of the Hussite Wars , with many of the churches being destroyed and their contents damaged or the churches merely being left incomplete . |
| 4 | We are constantly being offered esoteric techniques of relaxation and meditation to counteract stress , yet choose to ignore what is naturally available or are ashamed to use it . |
| 5 | In any out-patient department patients are daily being given life-or-death judgements about their future . |
| 6 | Here he was , a civilian , suddenly being made privy to enormous affairs of state . |
| 7 | We are more or less aware of all this , even though it might come as a surprise to most viewers to discover how far news material is already being treated prior to transmission . |
| 8 | Blanche 's door was already being held open by the driver . |
| 9 | By March 1990 this programme was already being adjudged inadequate in the light of statistics showing dismal economic performance in January-February , and on March 11 the Council of Ministers had instructed Deputy Premier Leonid Abalkin to produce by May 1 draft measures to achieve a more rapid switch to a market economy . |
| 10 | The church began in late Saxon times and developed over a long period , finally being made redundant in the 1960s , when part of it collapsed . |
| 11 | It emerged on July 21 that a Pakistani video film , International Guerrillas , portraying the British novelist Salman Rushdie torturing and killing Moslems and finally being struck dead by lightning , had been refused distribution rights by the British Board of Film Classification . |
| 12 | This presupposes co-operation between services ( p 15 ) , yet workers in all but a handful of local authorities could attest to resources and personnel not being made available to effect the good working links advocated in official reports . |
| 13 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 14 | To prevent the proprietor sitting on his patent , deliberately failing to use it , section 48 of the Act allows any person to apply for a compulsory licence under the patent , after the expiry of three years if , for example , the patent is not being worked or some abuse is being made of the patent monopoly such as if the product is not being made available at reasonable terms . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope Father is not being kept awake by his arthritic troubles . ’ |
| 16 | Taking first the behaviour of individual Members , it seems that initially they were very conscious of the cameras when speaking and prepared their speeches accordingly , but the effect wore off , particularly when the House was not being covered live . |
| 17 | THE latest progress report from the Fair Employment Commission proves ‘ beyond doubt ’ that Catholics are not being given preferential treatment by employers , according to Bob Cooper . |
| 18 | And some voluntary bodies felt they were not being given adequate enough attention . |
| 19 | All of them carried an innate fear of not being offered fresh terms for the following season . ’ |
| 20 | This is to avoid the possibility of an important notice not being considered important by a local shop manager . |
| 21 | He had intended a painless death ; not being burned alive . |
| 22 | Announcing the changes in a Commons written answer , Lord James said that planned spending on legal aid would still rise by 40 per cent over the next three years , in spite of the changes , with more people than ever being granted legal aid . |
| 23 | I recently met a ‘ star ’ from the series , who explained that one of the difficulties for the actors was their not ever being made aware of where their character might be going in future episodes . |
| 24 | Had he known the facts of the attempts to reach him , the trapped man would have despaired of ever being rescued alive . |
| 25 | Some worried that they were gradually being made sterile by welding equipment or the ultra-violet and infra-red rays to which they were exposed . |
| 26 | On the other hand , nourished on the synthdiet they must exchange for their impure ingots , maybe the tribes were breeding fast enough to fend off being buried alive in swarf and shavings and other detritus . |
| 27 | In most earlier cases , the occupant of tied accommodation had not enjoyed full protection against eviction under the Rent Acts since no money was paid , the accommodation usually being provided rent-free as part of remuneration . |
| 28 | He could see now that she was placed in an almost similar position , for with Martin marrying , she was once more being cast adrift . |
| 29 | Even so , there are still more being made ready for the 1993 shutdown . |
| 30 | 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 . |