Example sentences of "[noun] are [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , many new nation states are being created in Eastern Europe , and alongside this process there is also the development , perhaps , of a new kind of ‘ European nationalism ’ , about which I shall have more to say in the next chapter . |
| 2 | The results of these investigations are being integrated with new geophysical data to produce a three-dimensional geological model of the area . |
| 3 | The perceptions and attitudes are being analysed at various levels ranging from intellectual appreciation to popular stereotypes . |
| 4 | Entities are being multiplied with incredible profusion . |
| 5 | For example , in education it is again pre-school nursery education that has been reduced ; community work projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments , and pioneering psychiatric rehabilitation services are being closed down . |
| 6 | The research examines to what extent this is the case and what , ( if any ) strategies are being adopted by British clothing manufacturers to restore or maintain international competitiveness . |
| 7 | Seven hundred and forty four women , patients at this surgery in Gateshead are being recalled for new smear tests . |
| 8 | Writing of the Salon des Indépendants of 1914 , Apollinaire saw another influence at work : ‘ This year Futurism has begun to invade the Salon , and whereas from the reproductions they publish , the Italian Futurists appear to be ever more strongly influenced by the innovators of Paris ( Picasso and Braque ) , it would seem that a certain number of Parisian artists are being influenced by Futurist theories . ’ |
| 9 | Manchester and Liverpool are doing the same , as more and more houses are being built on vast estates , with their own shopping centres and with factories which are built on industrial trading estates . |
| 10 | Stanley Powerlock measuring tapes and Steelmaster claw hammers are being promoted with free top-quality leather holsters . |
| 11 | How far Japanese marketing methods are being transferred to local staff in the UK will also be investigated . |
| 12 | Sometimes these first impressions are so strong that they stubbornly linger and defy revision even when different signals are being transmitted by subsequent visual behaviours . |
| 13 | But parents and pupils are suspicious of the new exam , and the early indications are that , in many places , AS-levels are being mis-used as trial-run A-levels . |
| 14 | Train drivers are being balloted on industrial action over the planned sell-off of BR , with officials of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen confident of a Yes vote when voting ends on 7 April . |
| 15 | Even within existing state bodies , the workings of legal or administrative imperatives are being complicated by commercial forces , which reflect the revolution in the bureaucratic culture of British institutions over the past decade . |
| 16 | Similar local developments and open entry are being negotiated at other IBM locations but Greenock was proud to be first . |
| 17 | AROUND 150 jobs in the forestry industry are being created in northern Scotland following the decision of four local enterprise companies to join forces and fund a £2.7 million wood processing factory extension near Inverness . |
| 18 | AS THE Labour leadership congratulates itself on a virtually unprecedented exhibition of unity and moderation , they should be aware that knives are being sharpened at Conservative Central Office . |
| 19 | Three other people including a woman , all believed to be from the one family who were arrested at the scene are now being questioned by police , while three rifles recovered in a follow up search are being examined by forensic experts . |
| 20 | In the case of the price elasticity of demand , since the products of the dominant firms and of the blenders are being treated as imperfect substitutes , it is interpreted as being the effect of an equiproportionate rise in the price of the two products on total fertilizer expenditure E. Therefore , letting and , where and are initial prices and P is the proportional change factor , the aggregate expenditure for fertilizers can be written as : |
| 21 | The idea of inspection started with national inspectors ( Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ) , but increasingly local inspectors are being used at local education authority ( LEA ) level . |
| 22 | Applications for grant aid are being made to various bodies , including The Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 23 | ‘ As a result , around three-quarters of all borrowers in serious arrears are being helped with new and more affordable repayment terms . ’ |
| 24 | Data are being gathered from published sources and from interviews with officials , private insurers and commercial bankers . |
| 25 | It is therefore not surprising that thousands of children in Cleveland 's schools are being taught in sub-standard conditions — which must have an effect on education standards . |
| 26 | This is a particular danger where candidates are being interviewed for high-ranking appointments , when incompetent interviewing may create a hostile reaction in the candidate who is being wooed . |
| 27 | Sites are being selected for final disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 28 | The sites are being redeveloped with Western-style shops stocked with fully branded BP and Unipart merchandise . ’ |
| 29 | Whilst the age of the theme pub may be over , more and more old pubs are being transformed into identical , pseudo-historical clones . |
| 30 | Specialist moulds for pâtisserie work are being imported from French company Matinox . |