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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
formes verbales
séquences passives
beauxiliaire + being + verbeau participe passé (+ by + N)
valeur énonciative : emphase, alarme
‘Children are being used as a football’: Hilary Cass on her review of gender identity services
‘Children are being failed’: why more English parents are home educating
A pensioner and his wife were being questioned by detectives last night for allegedly buying an Albanian boy whose father had traded him for a colour TV set.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/30/
Teenager dies after stabbing outside party
Monday 8
September 2008
A teenager was stabbed to death in Sheffield after a group of up to 40 people, some armed with baseball bats and knives, fought outside a 16-year-old girl's birthday party. Emergency services were called to Rokeby Drive, Parson Cross, just after 11pm on Saturday. Witnesses said they saw the victim staggering in the street before he collapsed. The 18-year-old, named yesterday as Dale Robertson, was taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries, South Yorkshire police said. A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old were last night being held on suspicion of murder. Part of the street remained cordoned off as officers searched gardens and alleyways close to the murder scene. The police called for witnesses. A group of tearful youths arrived to place flowers at the scene yesterday afternoon. One said a fight had begun in the street and had been between rival gangs. "It all started after a bit of banter and name-calling between the two gangs. One of them walked off to go home and then they all started fighting. - some were carrying baseball bats and knives. It lasted for about 10 minutes. At one point two cars came screeching up the street and you could hear them being trashed." He added that the victim had walked away before collapsing on the ground. It is understood members of one of the gangs were invited to the party, but that a rival group turned up without invitation. A pensioner who called the police said: "There was a tremendous noise and I saw a lot of men fighting. I didn't dare go out so I phoned the police. The next thing I hear, someone has been stabbed." Teenager dies after stabbing outside party,
A 15-year-old boy who died on Monday night in a privately run child jail was being physically restrained by three adult members of staff when he lost consciousness, the Guardian has learned. (...) is believed to be the youngest person in living memory to die not by their own hand in a British penal institution. The teenager, who had only arrived at the Rainsbrook secure training centre, Northamptonshire, run by Group 4, on Friday, to start his 12-month sentence, is believed to have been restrained by two men and a woman in his room. A full-scale investigation by Northamptonshire detectives has begun and will look at how Gareth "lost consciousness" following "an incident" at Rainsbrook. "It is too early to determine whether the death is suspicious or not, but this is a very serious matter and we will continue to investigate it thoroughly," a Northamptonshire police spokeswoman said. The three members of staff directly involved have been moved to other duties at Rainsbrook which do not involve daily contact with the 76 children held there. Last night Frances Crook, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, called for the suspension of the staff involved, and demanded that the privately run children's jail be closed pending a full investigation of the use of physical restraint. "This is a unique and shocking case," Ms Crook said. "There must be a full investigation into the use of physical restraint in all penal institutions for children, the prisons, local authority secure units and the private secure training centres." It is believed that an operations manager at Rainsbrook, who has been exonerated of previous allegations concerning bullying and coercion of children in his care, was not directly involved in the incident but gave Gareth first aid and also accompanied him to hospital. A statement by the Youth Justice Board this week said the exact cause of the "tragic death" was, as yet, unclear. The statement said: "It is reported that (...) lost consciousness. A duty nurse was called and attempted resuscitation while an ambulance was called. The ambulance arrived at 9.42pm and he was taken to Walsgrave hospital in Coventry where he was pronounced dead at 10.25pm." Jailed teenager died after being restrained: Three staff off care duties as death of boy, 15, is investigated, GI, p.7, 23.4.2004, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/23/ prisonsandprobation.ukcrime1
A pensioner and his wife were being questioned by detectives last night for allegedly buying an Albanian boy whose father had traded him for a colour TV set.
Pensioners 'bought' child
traded for TV set:
Up to 140,000 people are thought to have been killed when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. As many as 80,000 died when a second device exploded in the skies above Nagasaki three days later. It was the first time nuclear weapons had been used to kill people and for almost six decades since, physicists have been laboriously trying to piece together exactly what happened during and in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Weapons like the bomb used on Nagasaki were tested after the war, so scientists knew a fair amount about what must have happened there during the blast. But with Hiroshima things were more complex, partly because the bomb dropped there was a one-off - nothing like it was ever used again. Now, almost 58 years to the day after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped, scientists think they have all the answers they will ever get about events that day. Using recently discovered large-scale Japanese maps from the time, sophisticated computer models and new radiation measurements taken from old lightning rods and guttering, the scientists from Japan and America have completed a painstaking reconstruction of events in Hiroshima. This is more than mere scientific curiosity. The reconstruction is already being used to better estimate the doses of radiation received by the people who survived the attack. This information is used to set everything from their financial compensation from the Japanese government to safety limits on modern-day exposures to radiation. In a Japanese census in 1950, some 280,000 people said they had been exposed to radiation from one of the two atomic bombs. The crucial question was: how much? Human exposure to dangerous levels of radiation is extremely rare, so the atomic bomb survivors provide the best evidence of what the effects are. By comparing the radiation doses the survivors received with the illnesses they later developed, scientists try to work out how lower exposures to radiation may trigger cancer. Every time you have an x-ray, for example, the safety data used to set your dose of radiation can be directly traced back to the events at Hiroshima. Likewise for patients receiving radiotherapy and for those people working in nuclear power stations. The day the sky exploded: Scientists have finally pieced together exactly what happened when an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, G/G2, p. 13, 31.7.2003. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/31/ science.research
Young people in a child jail are being locked in their bedrooms in breach of Home Office rules as a way of controlling them, according to a government inspection report. Inmates excluded from education are locked alone in a bedroom for the duration of morning or afternoon lessons at the Medway Secure Training Centre, near Rochester. The report demands an immediate review of "single separation" which the social services inspection team found fell short of acceptable standards. The child jail is also criticised for failing to tackle criminal attitudes and antisocial behaviour. Staff are accused of using language that could be seen as offensive to teenagers from ethnic minority backgrounds. It highlights "coloured" and "half-caste" as words used to describe some young inmates. Although the report found the staff at the centre were less likely to resort to physical restraint in dealing with disruptive behaviour than in the past, single separation was being used as a means of control more widely than acceptable under national guidance and regulations. The Home Office contract stated that young people should be put in their bedrooms only at night between the hours of 9.30pm and 7.30am or exceptionally when necessary for their own safety, the safety of others or the security of the centre. The report also found that life at the centre, which is run by Rebound ECD, a subsidiary of Group 4, had been disrupted by management difficulties and high staff turnover. A social services inspectorate report in 1999 found that excessive force was used to keep order. Wrist and neck locks were used to control offenders aged 12 to 14 and physical restraint was used by staff 150 times a month.
Young offenders locked in bedrooms,
A credit card that tells you "Don't spend any more, you're far too drunk" is being developed by Tesco for those whose thrift is addled by alcohol.
Credit card that
tells you when you're drunk in charge,
Thousands of children are being smuggled into Europe from war-ravaged Somalia every year, with Britain the most popular destination, according to a UN report released yesterday.
Somali children in
exodus to Europe,
Doctors will be put on the alert tomorrow for new cases of TB amid fears that outbreaks of the deadly disease are being misdiagnosed.
Doctors put
on TB alert, O, p. 7,
La passivation peut aussi être purement linguistique, sans référence à un état passif - souffrir, subir - dans l'extralinguistique (la "réalité") :
'We want to play an old folks' home' The Noisettes are being called Britain's best live band. It's all about picking the right venues,
they
tell Leonie Cooper G, 16.1.2006,
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jan/16/
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