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Example sentences for "being done"

  • If the braising is being done by a coal fire the lid of the stewpan may be reversed and some hot coals placed in it; these will want renewing f rom time to time.

  • I shall, therefore, give his account of what is being done in the old country; and next condense from his remarks the substance of what has taken place in New South Wales with regard to this vital matter.

  • Under this heading I propose to describe briefly what is being done in connection with Cookery Instruction in the places mentioned.

  • You will give the necessary care to the security of that coast and land, keeping me informed of what is being done and of the coast which the said galizabras or vessels appointed for that purpose will guard.

  • You will notify me of what is being done in this matter.

  • You will inform me of all that is being done.

  • Our American railroad executives are not as a rule particularly alert to what is being done in transport in other lands.

  • No, no, Harry, that is not the way that it is being done nowadays," said he.

  • That has been done before in California; it is being done to-day and most successfully.

  • Yet everything possible is being done to feed them.

  • But really accurately we know nothing very much of what is being done.

  • There is favouritism and incompetency in everything that is being done.

  • But not only is there order within these Japanese lines; attempts are being made to find out what is going on beyond--that is, to discover what is being done in this deserted corner of the city, which is abandoned to the European.

  • While the major emphasis in reforestation work is placed upon planting, considerable seeding is being done, but it is confined to the most favorable localities and sites.

  • Until only a few years ago larger areas were direct seeded each year than were planted to nursery stock, but at the present time more planting is being done.

  • I heard other firing at the same time, which, I believe, has been testified to by others as being done by policemen.

  • If anything is being done to master it, I don't know it.

  • About the time of which I speak certain facts came to my knowledge about the work that was being done by Frederick Nicholas Charrington, Honorary Superintendent of the Tower Hamlets Mission.

  • If only this book awakens some of those so abundantly blessed with riches to what has been done, and is being done, by Mr. Charrington, then its publication will indeed be blessed.

  • The place was too small for the enormous work which was now being done, and of which it was the centre, so that a more important site became imperative.

  • Hence, if a person is forced at the point of a revolver to help in robbing his own guests, he knows very well what is being done, but he certainly does not approve of it.

  • For the acts prescribed by different laws are either capable or incapable of being done at the same time.

  • Passive participation is had when one merely looks on at the administration of a Sacrament or sacramental by a non-Catholic minister, without signs of approval or union in what is being done.

  • At present, there's little more to be done than what is being done!

  • I want to know exactly what's being done, and what's going to be done, about my brother!

  • It is essentially necessary that you should know what is being done," said the Dean to his son-in-law.

  • Of course I want to know what is being done in the county.

  • If you tell me that you are advised this way or that, I should not, without very strong ground, put myself in opposition to that advice; but I do expect that you will let me know what is being done.

  • For these reasons I think that the best work for Liberalism is being done where the best work for science is being done--where the best work for man is being accomplished.

  • The work is being done by the church members themselves.

  • The fact is, there seems to be a general lull along the entire line, and just at present very little is being done by the orthodox people to keep their fellow-citizens out of hell.

  • Yes, we have not the slightest idea of what is being done to these unfortunate beings.

  • Just as if a problem had been set to find the best, the surest means of depraving the greatest number of persons," thought Nekhludoff, while investigating the deeds that were being done in the prisons and halting stations.

  • I shall be able to learn from him at any rate whether anything is being done.

  • Mason," he said, "you have heard of this that is being done at The Cleeve?

  • What a blessed woman would Lady Staveley have been had she known what was being done in Harley Street at this moment!

  • History of the yellow fever epidemics, its geographical distribution, and the work that is being done to control it.

  • Work that is being done in Panama to control the mosquitoes.

  • The very fact that in many shops she is not allowed to sit down is conducive to idleness--idleness of the worst kind, the idleness of pretending to do something while in reality nothing is being done.

  • I should not have minded so much if I could have been standing there to see the brave deeds that were being done.

  • I have done services to knights and nobles of one party as well as the other, and shall be able to learn what is being done in both camps.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being done" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being able; being affected; being appointed; being concerned; being delivered; being destitute; being discovered; being duly; being free; being generally; being haunted; being introduced; being joined; being mixed; being reconciled; being shot; being suspended; being sworn; being taken; being then; being unable; being under; being very; being wounded; endemic species; judicial proceedings