Example sentences of "[noun pl] [being] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also a reduction in the number of elderly bus passenger casualties which may have resulted in a fall in the number of trips being made following the introduction of fares for concessionary travel . |
| 2 | He followed the bomber down until it dived into the sea off Filfla , three survivors being seen in the water . |
| 3 | Movement of the system thus results in a number of parallel images being produced for the second model at each event . |
| 4 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
| 5 | Work was started on the restoration of the bombed church in 1956 , substantial funds being raised by the RAF , Commonwealth and Allied Air Forces , as well as from civilian benefactors . |
| 6 | The court found , by a narrow margin of seven votes to six , that Papandreou was not the " moral instigator " of the scandal of public funds being directed into the Bank of Crete . |
| 7 | Without the help of the S.D.S. the project seems doomed as the Region are unwilling to help and few of the local people would consent to council funds being used for the setting up of a permanent site or the renting of a plot of land as a short-term site until a permanent site can be found away from the town . |
| 8 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 9 | At the end of the season , three clubs would be relegated from the Premier Division , with only the championship winners being promoted from the First Division . |
| 10 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 11 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 12 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 13 | For dynamic recognition , processing may proceed from left to right through the text with subject codes of new words being compared to a ’ running profile ’ of subject codes taken from previous words . |
| 14 | Some people may remember those words being splashed across the front page of the Sun on the eve of last April 's general election . |
| 15 | Have you heard any of these words being used for the side of things by the , the tinkers ? |
| 16 | Yet the interest lies in seeing the distinction between direct and precatory words being used as a test . |
| 17 | More than this , such transactions involve the production and movement of parts , for example gear-boxes from one country will be imported for cars being assembled in the same company 's factory in another country . |
| 18 | She was still in her night things , and somehow did n't seem able to make the simplest connections in her mind ; right hand hugging her left elbow , she 'd been rocking herself gently ever since she 'd been wakened by the sounds of garage doors opening and cars being started in the mews outside her window . |
| 19 | With nine petrol cars being sold to every one diesel , scarcity keeps resale prices up . |
| 20 | Clearly intended to curb the activities of nationalist guerrilla groups operating in the Transcaucasian and Central Asian republics ( particularly Armenia ) , the decree appeared designed for use equally to prevent militia units being formed in the Baltic republics as an alternative to the Soviet police and armed forces . |
| 21 | They did however eventually see World War Two service , initially with the 412th Fighter Group and its 29th , 31st and 445th Fighter Squadrons , all units being assigned to the 4th Air Force and stationed in the western United States . |
| 22 | West Germany was to be the poor relation , with all its military units being placed under the integrated command structure . |
| 23 | Plant down , with natural blood as an adhesive , is often used to form the design ; or ochre ( blood of the earth ) which has always been intimately associated with ceremonies of fertility , the invocation of rain , etc. , by tribal people in most countries , who , like the Aborigines , regard the earth as a living , breathing entity , its underground watercourses being seen in a similar light to the human arterial system . |
| 24 | In certain species this can be shut tight as a further protection , with the head and legs being drawn behind the barrier . |
| 25 | The NRA attributed the downward trend in major incidents mainly to its tough and rigorous pollution prevention and control measures and the strong signals being sent by the courts through massive increases in the size of fines imposed on convicted offenders . |
| 26 | And , speaking just hours before the Budget , he warned that confusion in the signals being given by the Chancellor in his handling of economic policy would damage the ‘ fragile confidence ’ now emerging . |
| 27 | In a given situation , more than one of these may be used — for example , fax signals being passed along a telephone line or telephone messages being sent using radio techniques as in a car telephone , cordless telephone or ship-to-shore link . |
| 28 | This signal can be compared to the signals being produced by the phase sequence generator as a check that the motor is operating correctly . |
| 29 | The success of two trial Training Courses held in June and October at Birmingham and York confirmed the belief that the wider demands being placed on the Honorary Welfare Officers meant that some formal training was essential . |
| 30 | A new framework is needed , say the NRA , because many consents are no longer relevant to the increasing demands being placed on the waterways . |