Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another member , after referring to the particular reference in the Financial Secretary 's statement to airline and railway employees , asked whether the same distinction applied to services provided by hotel companies to their employees — that is , to rooms which are freely available for the general public in hotels being offered at a concessionary rate to employees of the hotel group . |
| 2 | Larger families around us were being rehoused at a steady rate , but we were doomed to wait for ever . |
| 3 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 4 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 5 | The rainforests are being destroyed at a frightening rate , by burning , logging , flooding , mining and pollution . |
| 6 | SIX YEARS ago San Diego 's police were being killed at a higher rate than the police in any other big American city . |