Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just two years ago , the MP for Henley was being talked of as the next Prime Minister . |
| 2 | EVIDENCE of widespread insider dealing ahead of yesterday 's £480million bid for Dixons was being investigated by Stock Exchange officials last night . |
| 3 | The supreme irony for Hill was being part of the first South West team to win the ADT Divisional Championship two weeks ago . |
| 4 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 5 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 6 | The financial year-end of Reed is being altered to a calendar basis from the old March year-end ; the company forecasts for calendar 1992 , which relate only to Reed International , are incorporated in Table 5 . |
| 7 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |
| 8 | According to Lord Elphinstone , the candidacy of Buchanan of Aucheneen was being pressed by Dundas of Lethem , one of Montrose 's friends , a gentleman who does not seem to have hesitated to make use of the duke 's name in the course of his canvass for Aucheneen . |
| 9 | The UK side of TVS is being run down but it has a pile of cash and what could be highly profitable operations in the US via MTM . |
| 10 | And the year when the industrial base of Germany was being systematically dismantled and shipped to the victors . |
| 11 | Independent bodies like Amnesty International began to focus on the conditions in which the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait was being conducted . |
| 12 | While the textile industry was growing , the port of Chester was being blocked by river mud . |
| 13 | That is the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Department of Transport , which shows that a government-recommended deep water route around the North-West coast of Scotland is being ignored by 80 per cent of loaded oil tankers . |
| 14 | Dicey thus felt that ‘ the law of England is being ‘ officialised ’ … by statutes passed under the influence of socialistic ideas ' . |
| 15 | At first their meeting places were simple , box-like structures but by the middle years of Victoria 's reign pompous new buildings in the Gothic style favoured by the Church of England were being built instead . |
| 16 | At Ludwigsburg Leopold suspected that his attempts to gain an audience with Karl Eugen , Duke of Wurtemberg were being thwarted by the intervention of Niccolò Jommelli ( court Kapellmeister at Stuttgart ) who was attempting to prevent Germans from appearing before the Duke . |
| 17 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 18 | The nomadic Awa Guajá tribe of Brazil are being condemned to extinction because of government delays in demarcating their land , according to Survival International . |
| 19 | Control of MTS is being contested by Twigrealm , a company backed by the South African meat trader Freddy Hirsch and the British property entrepreneur Stephen Wingate , and by Alpha Gamma , the property group . |
| 20 | Still to come — the seaside resort of Bournemouth is being turned into a fortress as the Conservatives start arriving for their Conference . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , injured children evacuated from the Moslem town of Srebrenica are being treated in hospitals in neighbouring Tuzla . |
| 22 | Or was she relying on the unlikelihood of Tom 's being able to defend his own corner effectively ? |
| 23 | reminds the reader of that moment when the shadow falls ‘ Between the potency/ And the existence ’ , or of Tiresias 's being trapped unfulfilled in sexual desire , bearing witness to all the ritualistically patterned couplings of history , ‘ throbbing between two lives ’ . |
| 24 | The future of Friern was being addressed by the top of the office . |
| 25 | Slowly parts of Funchal are being given a facelift , partly with tourists in mind and partly just because many of the old buildings are in danger of crumbling away . |
| 26 | He did n't think it was a case of God 's being vindictive , more a case of rules being rules and God having to administer them , like a caning head , and where there was Adultery there was always a Death , that was the way it was . |
| 27 | Its centre lies in the recognition of what impedes the sight of love , whereas Scale 2 is occupied with facilitating recognition of the nature of God 's being — love — in man . |
| 28 | The power of the sacrament is attested to not just by stories of miracles in which the devout see Christ himself present in the Host , but in terms of inward experience " wherof we haue knowynge onely by beleue with ynneforthe " [ ynneforthe : inwardly ] and the meditation ends with a prayer for the experience of the healing presence of Christ : Such cultivation of an inner experience of the reality of Christ 's being by means of affective meditation on his life is a discipline taken for granted in the writings of all the mystics to be discussed , despite their differences in emphasis . |
| 29 | If these things are true , the character of Christ is being reproduced and the organisation will be reproducing itself . |
| 30 | The lessons of UDCs are being learned by local authorities and political parties . |