Example sentences of "being [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst atrocities took place in the corridors running off the hall where he had been horrified to see " a man lying on the floor , obviously powerless and done for , being mercilessly kicked and horribly handled by a group of Blackshirts " . |
| 2 | It was bad enough being mercilessly teased and tantalized , without having to listen to this sort of humbug . |
| 3 | In clear skies sulphur was being slowly oxidised and deposited . |
| 4 | They enact a transaction , one that is constantly being made , broken , and remade , coming under doubt and suspicion , collapsing with proof of infidelity or betrayal by either side , being slowly rebuilt as doubt gives way to confirmation . |
| 5 | Polluters are going unpunished and factories not being properly inspected because of a serious shortage of staff at Her Majesty 's Pollution Inspectorate , according to a report from the National Audit Office ( NAO ) . |
| 6 | A recent policy statement from the AUT , Investing in the future : research and development in the universities , says that the overhead costs of research projects funded by government departments , research councils , industry and other bodies , are not being properly met and so these projects are eating up funds allocated by the Universities Funding Council . |
| 7 | Both in terms of social contact and er and also just in erm in literal terms , being properly fed and you know keeping warm over the Winter . |
| 8 | Section 36 enables a local education authority to apply for an education supervision order when a child is not being properly educated and Sched 3 , Part III explains how such orders operate . |
| 9 | These would be used without being properly vetted and were likely to contain inaccuracies . |
| 10 | All experienced hillwalkers are well aware of the dangers of venturing onto the hills without being properly equipped and prepared . |
| 11 | Remarkably , it is commonly the sufferer himself or herself who breaks off social relationships and activities because of a feeling of not being properly appreciated or understood . |
| 12 | The majority of housing is provided for this group-housing schemes for single people being rare , and the few that exist being blatantly restricted and cut at the present time . |
| 13 | The SCREAM of a cat in agony is unmistakable and is similar to the scream of many other animals when being badly hurt or terrorized . |
| 14 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 15 | It is also easier to defeat procedural motions rather than substantive ones , the Scotland and Wales ( Devolution ) Bill being effectively halted when the timetable motion ( guillotine ) was defeated by twenty-nine in February 1977 . |
| 16 | The report shows that forestry management practices are not being effectively enforced and that timber resources are being mismanaged . |
| 17 | The codification of knowledge into computer software , does however , suggest an intriguing new source for the future that is not yet being effectively captured and archived . |
| 18 | Again , commercialism may lead to the pursuit of indicators , such as current balance sheet results , chosen more to convince the government that commercial goals are being successfully achieved than for their relevance to the economic objectives of the enterprise . |
| 19 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 20 | In this way of thinking war was seen as an attempt to pursue a ‘ reasonable ’ claim which was being forcibly threatened or attacked , which implied not merely the use of force but the means of persuasion ( propaganda ) and discussion ( negotiation ) as well . |
| 21 | ( Such a theory involved denying the claims of James 's son , but doubts had been raised as to whether the Queen had really conceived the child , it being widely believed that the baby had been smuggled into the bed-chamber in a warming-pan . ) |
| 22 | It was in that year that female suffrage was being widely advocated and the militant suffragettes made their appearance . |
| 23 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 24 | They were also admired for their military prowess , it being widely assumed that before the arrival of the British the Masai had been paramount among the tribes of East Africa ; they were ‘ aristocrats and formerly conquered east central Africa ’ . |
| 25 | Criminal law appears to be regarded in legal education as something of a Cinderella subject , being widely regarded as suitable for beginners in the study of law to cut their teeth on before tackling the real business of legal study , viz. contract , tort , trusts and land law . |
| 26 | Workplace stress is on the increase , and ironically it 's now being widely recognized that companies own efforts to cut staff and become leaner and fitter , must take part of the blame . |
| 27 | Whatever action is taken on the final report of the Buea project ( and I have fears that the heavy reliance on expatriate experts in the project and in drawing up the report may not contribute to its being widely read and followed in Cameroon ) there can be no question that the project marks an important landmark in curriculum planning in Africa . |
| 28 | In its first annual report the Central Land Board ‘ noted with concern some weeks after the Act came into operation that despite the liability for development charge land was still being widely offered and , still worse , taken at prices including the full development value ’ . |
| 29 | However , the corporation that owned the plant regarded it as being inefficiently run and took steps to introduce a regime of tighter discipline . |
| 30 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |