Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look at the way some of the slums are being cleared and council houses being built in Norris Green and Huyton and other places , ’ he argued . |
| 2 | Instead of all the new controls being policed by the National Rivers Authority some of the responsibility was being handed over to Her Majesty 's Inpsector of Pollution , with decisions being taken by the Department of Environment . |
| 3 | But no I mean as I say some of the content was was was very interesting and er the concept is er well it 's something that excites me . |
| 4 | Some of the ladies were being helped indoors to the restaurant by the waiters . |
| 5 | Anna Capaldi , who headed the Touche Ross study , acknowledged yesterday that some of the figures were being revised but she understood that these would still fall within the ‘ sensitivity testing ’ ranges given in the report . |
| 6 | Some of the modules are being specially designed to take an activity approach . |
| 7 | Much of the work is being carried out at IBM 's UK Labs in Hursley Park , Hampshire . |
| 8 | Much of the work is being funded by British-backed groups such as International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations Family Planning Association , he alleged . |
| 9 | The emphasis was now on the proliferation of high-capacity small-scale computers capable of greater versatility than the older machines , lending themselves to the formation of networks , and many of them deliberately designed for easy access , so that much of the mystique was being dispelled . |
| 10 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 11 | They should show , for example , how many home helps per thousand of the population are being provided . |
| 12 | When news of the accident got out the hospital where sixteen of the children were being treated was flooded with calls from anxious parents . |
| 13 | Mr Wilson added : ‘ When many of the developments were being built tenants associations and public representatives pointed out that publicly-owned areas were prone to vandalism but it was never envisaged they would be subject to such official neglect . |
| 14 | Many of the pubs were being auctioned because their previous owners had run into financial difficulties . |
| 15 | At present , too many of the sacrifices are being borne by those who , for the sake of posterity , should least be called upon to make them . |
| 16 | A meeting of those at RBGE involved with the Course is being organised for late September . |
| 17 | A woman driving the other car involved in the accident is being treated for face and chest injuries . |
| 18 | Incinerators all across the country are being kept busy burning BSE infected cattle as the disease has now reached it 's peak , with 500 cattle a week being slaughtered . |
| 19 | to introduce to introduce one or two patients who ar who are happy with the drug is is irrelevant as you should know |
| 20 | He thought that preferable to the child 's being in an institution or with foster parents . |
| 21 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |
| 22 | If the show is n't happy and one of the artists is being a pain it spreads , particularly if it 's a principle artist . |
| 23 | Otherwise only one of the parties is being restored to his former position . |
| 24 | Thus , some 400 of the 914 residential places available in the community were being substantially supported from such sources by mid-1988 compared with a maximum of forty-seven such places in January 1982 . |
| 25 | There were also fears that the same trends of homelessness among mentally ill people as had become apparent in the USA were being repeated in Britain . |
| 26 | When millions around the world are being killed in war , dying from starvation or living below the poverty line ? |
| 27 | ( 2 ) The Council may ( in order to ascertain whether or not any of these Rules or other rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of these Rules or section 9 of the Act are being complied with ) at any time by written notice require a recognised body or an officer or member of the body to submit to the Council any report , certificate , audit or other documentation or information which the Council may require and the recognised body or the officer or member as the case may be shall submit such item to the Council within such period as may be reasonably determined by the Council . |
| 28 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 29 | Of course I wo n't go climbing hills , ’ Beth assured her with a light peck on the cheek to show that she was not annoyed at the girl 's being so forward . |
| 30 | Two of the men were being held and bound ; their wrists and ankles taped together . |