Example sentences of "[adj] [be] being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The genuinely needy are being helped by the welfare rights team , which plans eight new staff . |
| 2 | But what if some are being met in the private sector ? |
| 3 | The elderly and the unemployed are being hounded by the Government , and there is no end in sight . |
| 4 | DSM 's work has two purposes : to attempt to solve some of the practical difficulties associated with successful restoration , such as dampness and the type of pigments used in the paintings ; and to judge some the hypotheses put forward by art historians on their scientific merit ( this is being done with the plasterwork from St Servatius ) . |
| 5 | No , no , erm this is being done at the University of Surrey . |
| 6 | All this is being done in the name of free enterprise . |
| 7 | This is being undertaken under the auspices of Action in International Medicine , an organisation based in London which has the support of around 100 colleges and academies of medicine and allied health professions in over 30 countries ( for address see below ) . |
| 8 | Should this scenario happen , crucial to its success would be changing the image of the area , and a key part in this is being played by the city 's successful bid for the World Student Games in 1990 . |
| 9 | Northumberland has , of course , great beauties , but foul and interminable rain endured there on the Tuesday and in Chester-le-Street , with a lesser downpour in Darlington the next day , have reduced me to the shuddering , feverish condition in which this is being written at the Wheatsheaf , Sandbach . |
| 10 | This is being expressed by the current programme of cycle track construction on its disused railways and adoption of the strategies set out in the Lothian Cycle Route Project Report as the basis for the development of cycle facilities in Lothian . |
| 11 | Around 2 million hectares of natural forest remain , and this is being cleared at the rate of around 100,000-200,000 hectares every year . |
| 12 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 13 | This is being watched by the Environmental Protection Service , a public body located within the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 14 | The most popular drug used has been piperazine although this is being superseded by the benzimidazoles , fenbendazole and mebendazole and by nitroscanate . |
| 15 | Something very interesting is being done to the soles of my feet . |
| 16 | Another is being filmed for the Autumn schedules . |
| 17 | Er it ought not to have done in so far that er we were we were we were we were moving , we were going forward to take up positions on er on the river , er and this was being done on the understanding that er a certain bridge had been destroyed , er and it had n't been destroyed er and they were and they were they were already across you see . |
| 18 | This was being built under the main road that divided the three nurses ' homes and the medical-school library from the hospital . |
| 19 | Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams . |
| 20 | Lamarckism was the only available theory of natural evolution , and , although this was being promoted by the liberal social philosopher Herbert Spencer , biologists were too well aware of its dangerous reputation to take it seriously . |
| 21 | A record number of parents were getting aid through scholarships and more than 100 were being helped under the Government 's assisted places scheme . |
| 22 | Much is being made of the presence of pollen in the samples , yet Crone states that the mixture of pollen and fungus on the leaves and rocks probably could not have occurred naturally . |
| 23 | Much is being discovered about the nature of bacteria and viruses , and the physiology of cells , leading to a better understanding of the control of host cell function and to development of more effective chemotherapy . |
| 24 | Too much is being expected from the Cadbury Committee . |
| 25 | The review of the recording of La Mer is especially interesting for the debate it prompts within Porter himself , who admits to a prejudice against some Karajan performances , not before they start , but within moments of the opening , when it might be felt that — in those days — too much was being made of the music . |
| 26 | One of Australia 's few remaining stars was Jeff Thomson , and much was being made by the media of his non-defection to WSC . |
| 27 | The result in films like Shipyard ( 1934/5 ) , an impressionistic study of the life of a shipbuilding town , or Night Mail ( 1936 ) , a poetic record of the journey of the Postal Special from London to Glasgow , were films that revealed how much was being missed by the filmmakers who created fabulous fictions behind the walls of the studio — what Grierson described as ‘ the cinema 's capacity for getting around , for observing and selecting from life itself . ’ |
| 28 | Murphy publicly wondered if too much was being demanded of the top players . |
| 29 | Mr Preece said the Four Seasons , in Saltburn , was a top quality home which has boosted interest in the sale but he would not discuss how much was being offered for the different homes . |
| 30 | This northern Norwegian breed still exists separately from the Norwegian Red but is rare : there even these are being inseminated by the Red . |