Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can result from underclaiming of tax reliefs against taxable income , but it is more likely to be due to tax being stopped on some income but not reclaimed . |
| 2 | Excellent study days and short courses on ward teaching are now being arranged in some Schools of Nursing . |
| 3 | It condemned " the hostile campaign being waged in some quarters to harm the credibility and legitimacy of the PLO 's representation of the Palestinian people " . |
| 4 | Subject to a special fee being prescribed for some applications , the plaint fee includes all other interlocutory applications ( see Appendix II to County Court Fees Order 1982 as amended — at back of book ) . |
| 5 | He was reaching the point where he might be tempted to hurt the boy out of frustration or because he thought he was being tricked in some way . |
| 6 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
| 7 | ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this . |
| 8 | Not when — if , perchance , Labour Members were in that position in 20 years ' time , would they be prepared to have the whole system of assessing and adjudicating upon genuine claims destroyed by the campaigns that are being organised in some parts of this country ? |
| 9 | What it was like was being anointed by some slave girl . |
| 10 | You 'd see them being sucked into some kind of centre and disappearing … ’ |
| 11 | When they inspected the wicket , they found it being rolled by some prisoners from the local jail , one of whom looked familiar to Boycott . |
| 12 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 13 | He is already being blamed by some sections of the party for the redistributive tax plans which , it is said , lost Labour potential support . |
| 14 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 15 | Despite the positive results achieved by the mixed professional/ paraprofessional social service teams to which we have referred and the efforts being made in some countries to promote that model of service provision , little is being done in schools of social work to provide professional social workers with the type of skills needed for that kind of practice . |
| 16 | By the late 1970s the quality improvement process began to gain credence in the USA and is now being applied by some businesses in Europe . |
| 17 | The term is being applied by some zealots to any change . |
| 18 | Market research is being applied in some sectors which lists the priorities customers expect and also where a business is falling short . |
| 19 | To assist in getting a good fit the Aqua-Pak is also being developed in special sizes to fit ladies and juniors , a welcome trend being adopted by some equipment manufacturers . |
| 20 | How are you enjoying being turned into some blobs of pink and mauve on a canvas ? ’ |
| 21 | It is being said with some conviction that Labour inflicted a serious blow on itself with that Sheffield monster rally . |
| 22 | This development is quite new in British higher education ( and there are signs that it is being incorporated in some universities ) . |
| 23 | In most other Boards , however , the off-peak rate was pitched high and the selling effort was minimal , off-peak supplies being offered in some Boards only from 1955 , under pressure from both the Central Authority and the Ministry . |
| 24 | The report also drew attention to the state aid being offered by some countries to larger industries , estimating that the total had reached ECU83,300 million in 1990 , or 2.8 per cent of the EC 's total economy . |
| 25 | Maternity benefits and an increase in maternity leave are also being offered by some companies . |
| 26 | What had influenced Hollywood , thought Moley , was the ample evidence that ‘ the generality of the public takes its movies seriously and is adversely responsive to any effort which offers the least suspicion that they are being used for some purpose other than entertainment ’ and that in particular ‘ nothing hurts a picture 's chance of success more than the whisper that it contains propaganda ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's shocking the way we are being used by some clubs to further their own ends . |
| 28 | It is ironic that the expensive.incremental optical encoder — often cited as the reason for avoiding closed-loop — is being used by some designers to check that open-loop systems are operating correctly ! |
| 29 | Being equipped with some kind of understanding as to how other creatures are put together gives us an excellent handle for comprehending how and why they behave as they do . |
| 30 | Crocodiles are being preserved in some parts of the world by farming them , because that means that it is not so worthwhile to go out and kill the wild ones . |