Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each level a comparison is being made of performance between the pre-protection ( 1924-31 ) and post-protection ( 1931-37 ) period . |
| 2 | Note in the last example there was a similar situation except that in that case the car was being used exclusively for the business and in our answer we classified it as a business asset . |
| 3 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 4 | Indeed today in the High Court a petition is being presented for the compulsory winding up of the company . |
| 5 | I have the impression that in some quarters no thought is being given to what discoveries might be round the corner and in others no provision is being made to take advantage of them . |
| 6 | For the rest of this book an attempt is being made to explore some metaphysical questions so perhaps we are entitled to stumble . |
| 7 | Blanche 's antennae were very sensitive at gauging the progress of an investigation but she relied on Dexter to hoover up male gossip that was beyond her reach , idle chatter in the canteen or the gents ' toilet that sometimes hardened into hostility or resentment at some way a case was being handled . |
| 8 | In this way a loss is being experienced , the return on money being forgone . |
| 9 | This year the competition is being extended to customers ‘ children and young relatives . |
| 10 | By this time the cutters were being kept in commission throughout the year , the practice of laying them in winter had been abandoned so that more crews were needed to maintain continuity . |
| 11 | According to the Commission for Racial Equality , one similar instance a week is being referred to them . |
| 12 | Outside Parliament the pressure is being stepped up . |
| 13 | The company , which has a major share stake in Sky 's rival British Satellite Broadcasting but which rents receiver equipment for Rupert Murdoch 's operation , said around 30,000 dishes a month are being sold or rented . |
| 14 | Around 200,000 hectares a year are being lost , equivalent to an annual depletion rate of 0.5 per cent — one of the highest in the world . |
| 15 | By the middle of the eighteenth century about 70,000 slaves a year were being taken across the Atlantic , half of them in British ships . |
| 16 | In virtually all cases the work is being done as joint ventures between eastern and western telecommunications companies ; the World Bank is providing funding for some projects . |
| 17 | ‘ Needless to say , no reviews of The Hooded Owl have appeared in the papers today , but from all accounts the play was being very well received when the tragedy occurred . |
| 18 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 20 | On the village green in front of the Chinese Buddhist temple a fair-ground was being erected . |
| 21 | On one occasion the group were being asked about their thoughts on the question of how pupils who disrupt lessons by walking out should be disciplined . |
| 22 | But now for the first time the diocese was being consulted — informally , quietly , but systematically . |
| 23 | In fact , it was n't too difficult because that same week the symphony was being prepared by a man called Pergament-Parmet with the Stockholm Philharmonic and I was able to attend his rehearsals . |
| 24 | But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence . |
| 25 | At the same time the bar is being pushed inland by the sea , which erodes material from the outside of the bar and , in times of storm , flings it over the bar on to the marsh . |
| 26 | In other words the jurist is being asked to treat the words addressed to one daughter as indirectly establishing a trust in favour of the other . |