Example sentences of "being [vb pp] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His excuse that he did not realise what he was being given was laughed at . |
| 2 | When news of the accident got out the hospital where sixteen of the children were being treated was flooded with calls from anxious parents . |
| 3 | The previous year 1255 , the property belonging to the Bishopric of Rochester , had been valued as follows : The estates at Halling with its member of Holborough and Cuxton , contained 717 acres of arable land , that not being marled was valued at fourpence an acre , also 38 acres of meadow land worth sixpence an acre , and 20 acres of pasture at eightpence an acre , the Mill at Holborough being valued at twenty shillings and the Mill at Cuxton worth thirteen and fourpence , no value is put on the vineyard at Halling but it is mentioned . |
| 4 | This section applies whether or not insolvency proceedings of any kind have been taken , and it applies however long before the application to the court the transaction being impugned was entered into . |
| 5 | A close associate of Knighton said that one option being considered was to sell on part of his Isle of Man holding company , M K Trafford , through which the offer is being made . |
| 6 | The 1985 Report on Social Attitudes found that the most highly valued method of taking personal action against an unjust law being considered was to write to the local MP and , although the importance of contacting the media for this purpose has increased , the 1986 report found ‘ a widespread and growing self confidence on the part of the electorate to try to bring influence to bear on Parliament ’ . |
| 7 | The fingers en route and for the purpose of being chilled were placed in a packet of ice lollies ! |
| 8 | It is not pleasant to be shot at , and even the pleasure of being missed is spoilt by the mind 's habit of constructing alternative scenarios ; if the machine-gunner had been a bit quicker to react , or had led us with more skill , we would now be nothing but a heap of molten metal somewhere in the sea-grape . |
| 9 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 10 | An impressive overview of the context in which contemporary French theory is being thought is offered by Alice Jardine in Gynesis : Configurations of Women and Modernity ( 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Sometimes the business being sold is operated as a division of the vendor rather than as a separate subsidiary . |
| 12 | Property centre chairman George Clark said : ‘ The majority of the properties being sold are priced at £80,000 or less , in other words , appealing most to the first or second-time buyer . |
| 13 | The commands being executed are represented as a pattern of ‘ on ’ and ‘ off ’ switches in the central processor unit , so that a switch that is in the off state is carrying as much information as one that is on . |
| 14 | ] Therefore , the service which is being provided is expressed in general terms , the exact details being left until a later date [ … |
| 15 | The meeting with the HMI , and regular correspondence with Tom Bryce were a great morale boost as recognition of our work , and the time being spent was valued by the SED . |
| 16 | We also find another kind of variation : in the example just given above , the occurrence of the phonemes being discussed was determined by their phonological context , but sometimes the determining factor is lexical rather than phonological . |
| 17 | Drugs and other agents being investigated were added to the Krebs solution before its entry into the baths . |
| 18 | The level of shock being delivered was shown on the apparatus as being ‘ severe ’ , dangerous ' , and , at the top end of the scale , just ‘ xxx ’ . |
| 19 | A JUROR miffed that his £1.20 travelling expenses were not being paid was sacked from an Old Bailey case yesterday . |
| 20 | This very influential paper was succeeded by others , many also published as Professional Papers , and including exposition of the concept of entropy ( Leopold and Langbein , 1962 ) which is referred to later ( p. 159 ) although the emphasis upon contemporary environments which was being promulgated was reconciled to some extent with the more historical approaches by the time-scales devised by Schumm and Lichty ( 1965 ) as indicated at the beginning of chapter 8 ( p. 162 ) . |