Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must clearly relate to the areas of study and competences for which credit/entry is being sought . |
| 2 | The press gave the impression that governors were going through a series of complicated changes and that new puzzles and ambiguities about their powers were being constantly revealed . |
| 3 | The bulk of our assistance is being directed through the European Community technical and emergency assistance pro-grammes . |
| 4 | A working party under has produced a report reviewing the ACE fee collection system , as a result of which ACE is being encouraged to extend and deepen the support service which it offers to chambers . |
| 5 | ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’ |
| 6 | When would the fourth pall-bearer arrive , because , although the labouring side of his assignment was being carried out , he was the first to be called by Alan to say a few words , and also why was the organist playing in such a muted fashion ? |
| 7 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 8 | Will the right hon. Gentleman arrange for the Secretary of State for Defence to make a statement about the way in which contractors are paid £10 an hour for security guards at some of our vital establishments when security guards in my constituency are being paid £1.80 an hour ? |
| 9 | They came up with a mock chat show programme in which Williams was being interviewed by Clement Freud , as lugubrious-looking then as now . |
| 10 | The speed at which staff are being trained to use the system is also very slow . |
| 11 | It is difficult for an authority to pursue its priorities and plan to meet the needs of its population , whilst part of its resources are being used to pay for outward flows which may not figure in those priorities . |
| 12 | I find myself rather like the old shell man having to look both ways at once , because part of my division is is town and part of it is country and they have very different views about the by-pass erm |
| 13 | He knows that part of my beauty is being alive , but it 's the dead me he wants . |
| 14 | She liked the reflected glory of her daughter 's being with such a famous star , and thought it could do nothing but good for the girl 's future in the theatre . |
| 15 | Even in Catholic churches people are complaining that statues of Our Lady are being discarded . |
| 16 | One of the most beautiful experiences of my life was being able to play the Tenth Symphony for Shostakovich when we last visited Moscow . |
| 17 | Most of the problems with s13 relate not to the question of which goods are being sold but rather what they are . |
| 18 | Most of his respondents were radically opposed to national socialism , but he established that a generally left-wing outlook amongst his samples was being dissipated by underlying personality traits , in particular their susceptibility to follow father-like authoritarian leaders . |
| 19 | Last time we talked I mentioned work in artificial intelligence , and this is one of the areas in which work is being done . |
| 20 | It is not the intention here to go into great detail on the subject of nutrition , but rather to give a simple guide that may be useful to those who want to make sure that the elderly parent in their care is being properly nourished . |
| 21 | First , there was an assumption of an integrating culture informing the student 's experience and studies , which ran across subjects and institutions ; it was a common inheritance in which students were being invited to share . |
| 22 | In July 1988 , Stefan Dactu , one of the Romanian architectural planners , insisted on the uniformity of internal designs for the pre-fabricated blocks in which people were being rehoused throughout the country : ‘ The designing of [ internal ] spaces is in keeping with a unitary legislation . |
| 23 | The Deputy Governor of Kordofan state in central Sudan , Umar Sulayman Adam , on March 12 denied allegations that the Nuba people of the Nuba mountains in his state were being subjected to official repression . |
| 24 | The appearance of History and Class Consciousness at the height of the Modernist movement suggests the degree to which history was being totalized by Lukács at the very moment when the process of detotalization had already begun — even in the aporetic possibilities of his own writings . |
| 25 | One of the key issues was how parents ' messages about their needs were being heard , and here the researchers were able to shed some light . |
| 26 | The very fact that the process about which expectations are being formed has altered should , under the rational expectations model , alter the response of consumption to . |
| 27 | The possibility exists then to discriminate between the two models if there is a break in the process determining Y t ; that is , if there is what is called a regime break , a break in the process about which expectations are being formed . |
| 28 | The point is that we can compute out of sequences of utterances , taken together with background assumptions about language usage , highly detailed inferences about the nature of the assumptions participants are making , and the purposes for which utterances are being used . |
| 29 | By the end of yesterday , having had half of the region 's press beating a path to her cage door in deepest East Cowton ( and a simultaneous announcement of her existence was being made in New York ) , she was feeling distinctly tired but kept her pecker up by chewing on a favourite piece of banana . |
| 30 | They were concerned about the implications of what influences were being exerted in their island society . |