Example sentences of "being [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of archers stood ankle-deep in the slush , practising at the butts , whilst others were being mercilessly drilled by the serjeants . |
| 2 | The inspectorate 's recommendations are now being vigorously addressed under the leadership of the present director of social services , Mr. Brian Waller . |
| 3 | He ca n't help being rather touched by the young man 's enthusiasm about it all . |
| 4 | The Abbot of the Abbey of St Mary , John Blake , built two fulling mills in the town during the 16th century , these being duly noted by the much-travelled Leland who , in 1535 , describes them as ‘ being wonderfully necessary by cause the town standith all by clothing ’ . |
| 5 | He strongly denied the suggestion that the militias were unruly , and said they were being slowly incorporated into the regular army . |
| 6 | Because she was being slowly smothered by the Melanisms ? |
| 7 | Today , it is being slowly eroded on the south face by the sea . |
| 8 | Masklin felt himself being slowly lowered towards the ground . |
| 9 | A particularly adventurous one with large quivering antennae was being slowly buried in the rancid margarine . |
| 10 | He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county . |
| 11 | The fire was caused through the carelessness of one of the workmen in blowing out a bench lamp he had been using , and putting it in his drawer at 5.30 pm the previous night , without the fire being properly extinguished on the cotton wick . |
| 12 | I wish to make it clear that I have no intention of using that power at present , but I would be prepared to use it if it emerged that individuals ' interests were not being properly protected by the scheme in practice . |
| 13 | That land you obviously regard as being properly included within the inset ? |
| 14 | The local density in our galaxy could be a million times higher than this figure if primordial black holes were concentrated in the ‘ halo ’ of galaxies — the thin cloud of rapidly moving stars in which each galaxy is embedded — rather than being uniformly distributed throughout the universe . |
| 15 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |
| 16 | She has had skin grafts since being badly burned in the Siberian train disaster . |
| 17 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 18 | According to this latter explanation , whether it be a matter of dialect ( Labov , 1970 ) or sociolinguistic code ( Bernstein , 1971 ) , the disadvantage experienced by many lower-class children is said to be in their being inadequately prepared for the linguistic demands of the classroom by having learned a different model of language in use from their parents and the other members of their immediate language community . |
| 19 | THE Middlesex batsman , Mark Ramprakash , will be considered for the summer series against Australia after being effectively suspended for the current tour to India and Sri Lanka . |
| 20 | Medicine and money from the public health budget are being unofficially transferred to the military health services and at least five regional hospitals and a number of smaller health centres have been taken over for use by the military . |
| 21 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
| 22 | European Community laws on the environment are being widely ignored throughout the 12 member states , a House of Lords committee reported yesterday . |
| 23 | Five years later , its repercussions were still being widely aired in the media , with conflicts over the sources and use of money available to the NUM 's elected officers during the strike period ( Lightman , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | Nursing care based upon the nursing process is being widely implemented in the United Kingdom , and one of the main skills that nurses need to develop is the ability to be able to communicate effectively with the patient and his family , in order to be able to define the patient 's problems . |
| 25 | By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here . |
| 26 | Hope returned of a new life beyond the slaughter which was being widely predicted for the March election . |
| 27 | ‘ We know that as an issue animal welfare is being widely discussed in the UK , ’ he said at a Danish Bacon and Meat Council ( DBMC ) trade event . |
| 28 | The best chance of making this plan work comes from a new idea now being secretly floated in the electronics industry . |
| 29 | It 's also very rare , being only found on the clay belt between Oxford and Peterborough . |
| 30 | In the " Pac-Man " computer games the maze and dots were deemed to be idea , being necessarily dictated by the program function , but the " Pac-Man " and " ghost monsters " characters were considered to be expression as different graphical representations could have been used . |