Example sentences of "[noun pl] being [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no chance of survivors being found in other parts of the collapsed building . |
| 2 | A 500-foot high volcanic plug which was a tribal centre for over 1,000 years , with series of defensive outworks being added by successive occupants . |
| 3 | Ferries , loaded to the gunwales , went from bank to bank : a cluster of buffaloes being washed by small boys lay contentedly in the shallows . |
| 4 | FUNDS BEING TRANSFERRED FROM SPECIAL SERVICES DEPT . |
| 5 | So far as property rights were concerned the Vice-Chancellor held that words being transmitted by electrical impulses could not in themselves be the subject-matter of property rights . |
| 6 | Yet other problems arise from familiar sound , structures or words being used in unfamiliar combinations , or for unfamiliar purposes . |
| 7 | During the Second World War , the depot was requisitioned and used by R.A.F. Technical Training Command , the cars being dispersed to other depots or broken up . |
| 8 | Ends such as these are reserved by the home fans solely for their own use — visiting fans being relegated to other areas of the ground . |
| 9 | Present-opening sessions are generally unpredictable affairs , the pictures being shot with mobile camera on a catch-as-catch-can basis with the sound mostly consisting of the rustling of wrapping paper being undone and the excited squeaks of the recipients . |
| 10 | He foresees truck-mounted accelerator X-ray units being driven to contaminated sites . |
| 11 | However , the real difficulty , leading to the eventual scuttling of the Bill , was that the scheme proposed different remedies being offered in different circumstances against different defendants . |
| 12 | Wealthy families would while away their days at the baths being massaged with aromatic oils by the unfortunate eunuch slave whose sole function in life was to knead and pummel his master . |
| 13 | That such high quality was possible was due in part to experienced craftsmen being imported from other Habsburg lands but even more important was the nucleus of craftsmen already based in the Italian quarter , from the period of Rudolf II . |
| 14 | But when non-performing songwriters became successful , with their songs being recorded by major artists , and used in films or as TV commercials , then the need for a manager often becomes more pressing . |
| 15 | In practice a combination of teaching methods and media can be expected to provide the best basis for programmes of library user education , different methods being adapted to different parts of the programme and to the teachers and students concerned . |
| 16 | There are also examples of Compacts being established outside Urban Programme Areas . |
| 17 | Are lists being kept by other big cities ? |
| 18 | By simply writing to the Mailing Preference Service , you can have your name deleted from almost all the lists being used by direct mail companies . |
| 19 | All planning authorities are now drawing up rules to prevent new homes being built in surrounding countryside , so what will happen in Swindon when existing sites are exhausted ? |
| 20 | Cost-justification of DIP systems is now easier than ever , with component prices falling fast and large cost savings being achieved through improved productivity and reduced staff numbers . |
| 21 | General practitioners need assurance that control of expenditure will result in the savings being retained in local health care . |
| 22 | Lord Attlee 's memoirs , for example , as well as Sir John Wheeler Bennett 's biography of George VI described a number of views held by the King without the authors being accused of constitutional impropriety . |
| 23 | Many of their colleagues are off work sick for long periods being treated for nervous disorders . |
| 24 | This can lead to duties being allocated without due regard for the needs of patients . |
| 25 | Llandrinio , near Welshpool , Powys , is on a short-list of two sites being considered by New Zealand-based Fortex Group . |
| 26 | They tend to be mainly on sites being recycled from existing industrial activities er which are no longer appropriate in the city centre , things like motor traders and that kind of ac activity . |
| 27 | If you are so concerned with the kindly nurture of infants , I suggest you turn your journalistic — conscience — to those children begotten by inadequate stupid parents being reared in appalling conditions in slums all over the country . |
| 28 | It is broad and low with wide , pointed , quadripartite stone vaulting , the vaults being supported on columned corbels with foliated capitals . |
| 29 | The first sighting of Filden I by Venturous was in a position six miles off Dunkirk from where she was shadowed at a discreet distance with radio reports of her movements being sent at regular intervals by Venturous to the shore watchers in the vicinity of North Foreland . |
| 30 | A more sinister problem was that of hackers being approached by serious criminals , he said . |