Example sentences of "[noun] [be] being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , de Groot 's fears , expressed in 1983 , have been reiterated by Emory in 1988 who states that in 1986 some 26023 tourists visited the islands and that the problems of environmental protection are being exacerbated by the influx of mainland Ecuadoreans seeking wealth in the tourist trade . |
| 2 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 3 | Sir , — We are all well aware that the harsh effects of the present recession are being felt by the accountancy profession to a degree that is certainly unprecedented in my memory . |
| 4 | While some aspects of education provision are being centralised in the course of reform , the management of staff is being decentralised . |
| 5 | More than half the British troops in Germany are being withdrawn over the next four years , which will inevitably put more pressure on UK training areas , making the removal of the MoD from national parks even less likely . |
| 6 | Habermas calls action oriented to success ‘ instrumental ’ when it can be understood as following technical rules , and can be evaluated in terms of efficiency ( typically when operations are being performed on the physical world ) . |
| 7 | Wildlife control operations are being co-ordinated with the army , police and customs , since the animals trade is part of a wider underground market in drugs , arms and stolen cars . |
| 8 | For example , skills in non-destructive testing and inspection are being applied in the nuclear , oil and gas and aerospace industries . |
| 9 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 10 | To capitalise on the award , adverts are being taken in the main trade magazines , and leaflets are being distributed to the sales force , both of which will inform carpet retailers throughout the country that Lafayette has ‘ outstanding sales potential . ’ |
| 11 | At present a number of research projects are being undertaken within the school including the editing of the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection , a collection of 3,000 texts and tunes of traditional songs from North-East Scotland . |
| 12 | Other fund raising activities are being planned for the winter months . |
| 13 | A small group ( two bulls and six heifers ) was exported to an English agricultural college in 1988 on an experimental basis , and here it was described as looking rather like a South Devon or a beefy Jersey ; the bulls are being used on the college 's Friesian dairy herd to produce beef calves . |
| 14 | In Finland local authorities are being turned into the purchasing agents — with a range of powers and responsibilities that look remarkably similar to those being assigned to the district health authorities under the Tory reforms . |
| 15 | May I first say that I am sorry in fact that local authorities and police authorities are being separated in the way clause two proposes . |
| 16 | General admin : Preferred Working Hours are being updated for the Division : yours I 've not changed but I have put Astrid 's at 9.30 to 5.30 with 1 hour lunch . |
| 17 | The British Government have a special responsibility in this matter , because British manufacture cluster bombs are being used by the Yugoslav air force , which is de facto a Serbian air force , to attack civilian targets . |
| 18 | MEMBERS of Parliament are being canvassed by the New Statesman , the weekly left-wing magazine , to find which books have influenced them . |
| 19 | Fifteen projects designed to restore areas of native woodland in the Highlands are being financed by the North West Region of Scottish natural Heritage . |
| 20 | Solicitors are being advised by the chairman of the Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre that all office systems should be reviewed . |
| 21 | " A woman worker " wrote to the Despatch in late August , claiming that " persistent attempts are being made by the men to work on the motives of selfishness and self-interest of the women " . |
| 22 | Sheep are being introduced on the coastal slopes around Shrinkle Haven Youth Hostel to stop encroaching scrub and bracken further smothering the traditional vegetation of the area and damaging feeding grounds for coastal birds . |
| 23 | With both visual estimation and point counting techniques it must be remembered that values are being computed from the two dimensions of the thin section into the three dimensions of a sediment for modal composition . |
| 24 | I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline . |
| 25 | A drive is now to raise the sums given by regular churchgoers and plans are being directed towards the launch of a £100,000 restoration fund appeal . |
| 26 | It is not necessarily the case that similar patterns are being repeated in the quite different social context of the UK . |
| 27 | It is clear from the above that the rules are being bent to the benefit of some . |
| 28 | Contracts are being signed with the builders and the arrival of materials is imminent . |
| 29 | Attention is focused on the strategic metals where substitution programmes are being promoted by the EEC . |
| 30 | Improvements are being made to the NHS cervical screening services . |