Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK polytechnics have performed a signal service to higher education by showing how professional education can be developed , with practice being placed firmly in a framework of systematic intellectual exploration . |
| 2 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 3 | In 1990 , a cluster of increased incidences of leukaemia in young children around Sellafield nuclear power plant in north-west England was explained as being due to reproductive cells in fathers being exposed occupationally to a radiation total dose of over 100 mSv ( Gardner et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | In the first case , each text is given its own header , with any material common to all texts being factored out to an overall corpus header . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Catholic worship continued in many great houses ; Sir Thomas Leedes at Thorne House , Steyning , was only one of a number who kept a priest 's hole against the chance of being given away by an informer . |
| 6 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 7 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 8 | The seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys , in one of his less endearing passages , describes witnessing the chilling effects of this toxin being given experimentally to a hapless dog in a London gentleman 's club . |
| 9 | Consequently herbs were simply not part of the garden scene , being tucked away in an odd corner of the vegetable garden , or grown half-heartedly in pots or window-boxes , where they became aphid-ridden and dusty . |
| 10 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 11 | And the reason for those is the iron in the blood is being oxidized by various substances in the body , it 's being broken down into a form in which the body can reabsorb that iron , and during the process you go through all these colour changes because of the different forms of iron oxide being produced . |
| 12 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
| 13 | When my right hon. Friend next visits the duchy , will he point out that under our NHS reforms a record number of patients are being treated there by a record number of doctors and nurses , and that waiting lists are falling ? |
| 14 | The examination committee records in London show that the majority of students were examined after nine or 18 months ' instruction , and even then they stood a chance of being referred back for a further period of study . |
| 15 | The rest of Johanna 's clothes , including her underwear , tights and black trainers , were still being examined yesterday at a Home Office laboratory in Huntingdon , Cambs . |
| 16 | It 's only 18 months to two years since he was being bandied about as a possible England boss . |
| 17 | Research was commissioned , with data being gathered principally from a 10% sample of all grammar schools , whose headmasters supplied details of the ‘ background , school record and potentialities ’ of the 1946 intake . |
| 18 | Should my hon. Friend happen to be in the Cleveland area , I strongly urge her to go to the South Cleveland hospital to see the excellent work being undertaken there with a bone densitometer . |
| 19 | Ask a hundred people what their least favourite part of the Spectrum is and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of the keyboard being pointed out as a prime culprit . |
| 20 | There is a real risk of it being regarded not as a mate but a meal . |
| 21 | SunSoft Inc 's all-important solution for running Microsoft Corp Windows applications on its watershed Solaris 2.0-on-Intel operating system is reportedly being developed outside by a little-known 10-person firm called Praxsys Technologies Inc in Norwood , Massachusetts . |
| 22 | Indeed , an article at this length will frequently avoid mentioning any work of art by name , being limited instead to a generalised description of an artist 's work . |
| 23 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 24 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 25 | If you are black you find yourself being addressed directly as an object — and potential subject — of verbal and physical attack . |
| 26 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 27 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 28 | He could be photographed using the concept keyboard ( and outgrowing the available programmes ) , being squeezed half-way into a hotel loo ( as part of the Access Group ) or simply having a laugh with friends on the scheme who treat him as an equal . |
| 29 | And she insisted on being chauffeured round in a Daimler — just like the Queen . |
| 30 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |