Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The model being erected was that made for the Olympia Aero Show in 1929 . |
| 2 | But mud slung in such quantities and with so much acrimony is bound to stick somewhere , and the overall impression being given is that while the law may be an ass , the profession of psychology is an even bigger one . |
| 3 | The reason being given is that in retaining the project for itself , Silicon Graphics ' goal of portraying the MIPS architecture as vendor-neutral would be compromised . |
| 4 | Although I rate El Tel very highly I think one of the reasons he is being picked is that no money will have to change hands . |
| 5 | The biggest single reason for refusal of certification being recommended is that the subject assessor is unable to see evidence of student performance . |
| 6 | When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government . |
| 7 | We are , of course , assuming that we are using an ideal switch which does n't exist in real life , but the point being made is that a switching system will be a lot more efficient than any resistive control element where dissipation is invariably relatively large . |
| 8 | following on from that er that the point that I think is being made is that a contribution does not have to be put forward in a shape of a question to be er a useful contribution to the debate and and your erm pressure upon er the lady who spoke er a while ago was er insisting that she she |
| 9 | The point that is being made is that in this situation none of the profit figures are a guide to the future . |
| 10 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 11 | Thus , it may be that the only undertaking being made is that the sample was honestly and properly taken from the bulk , as was the case in Gardiner v Gray ( 1815 ) 4 Camp 144 . |
| 12 | Yeah , because the point that 's being made is that it 's only the flower of the rose which has all these properties , it 's not the whole bush itself , presumably . |
| 13 | The point being made is that although it is ultimately envisaged that the EC will be similar to the USA with each member country being akin to a state and it even being billed as the ‘ United States of Europe ’ , is it a reality when one considers differences in attitude , culture , language and even religion ? |
| 14 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 15 | What is being said is that God 's love makes its home in human beings and that it seeks to be replicated and brought to completion within them . |
| 16 | If a homosexual union is to be accepted as a marriage and yet denied the right to raise children , what is really being said is that the state has an interest in sheltering and protecting children from a homosexual environment . |
| 17 | It is tautological if all that is being said is that where there is no industrial capitalism , there are no industrial capitalists , and vice versa ; and it is fallacious if it is intended as a substantial proposition meaning that the limited growth in some Third World economies is due to the absence of innovators , intermediaries , risk-takers and the like . |
| 18 | What is being said is that the recipient of confidential information can not use the information as a shortcut to side-step the work which other members of the public would have to do . |
| 19 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |
| 20 | She guessed that what was being said was that Piphros was the control , the experiment running alongside the real one , that indicated the result that could be expected with a known norm . |
| 21 | The most simple reason for something being buried is that people have buried it , and domestic waste is probably the most common example of deliberate burial . |
| 22 | There are many arguments as to which strategy is best ( de Nevers et al. , 1977 ; Wall , 1976b ) but increasingly the conclusion being reached is that it is possible to make use of the advantages of two or more strategies . |
| 23 | That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that . |
| 24 | What is being suggested is that dreams in themselves have no absolute meaning or import — so that the idea of analysing them in terms of standard sets of criteria becomes a nonsense — but that the reaction of the dreamer to his or her dream can be very significant . |
| 25 | This assumption of improved supervision is put forward as a great strength of the proposals , but in fact what is being suggested is that the first year house officers would receive supervision from second year staff who are not yet fully registered . |
| 26 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 27 | A reason cited as to why he was being released was that there are/were potential problems with renewing his work permit . |
| 28 | For what is being implied is that graduates should be able to internalize the whole universe of knowledge , because in theory all knowledge is interconnected and critique can draw upon any domain of knowledge in the act of placing or evaluating a discipline . |
| 29 | Another possibility being mentioned was that GM could begin Jaguar production in the US — the company 's biggest market . |