Example sentences of "[that] be being [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.

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1 Newsround felt it was worthwhile to give readers information about the efforts that are being made by the Council to ensure its views on reform are known and presented as effectively as possible .
2 This study is designed to provide a means of testing , refining , and developing theories about football hooliganism on the basis of empirical data that are being collected by the techniques of social anthropology .
3 Is it not in order for Back Benchers at least to ask the Prime Minister whether the policies that are being promoted by the Opposition will most emphatically not be adopted by this Government ?
4 Finally it must be remembered that , at this stage , the majority of the Cossacks still had no inkling of the preparations that were being made by the British to hand them back .
5 Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ?
6 It was the people that were being drawn by the nose and paying for the whole thing .
7 First of all my physical world constrains me in so far as every other car will be travelling on the left-hand side and my progress might be somewhat impeded if I chose otherwise ; secondly , it is a rule that is being followed by every driver .
8 ‘ There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves ’ was George Bernard Shaw 's picturesque way of stating the obvious , but in a messy company liquidation the police may be very interested in the information that is being extracted by the liquidators from sometimes unwilling directors and others .
9 Once again , it may be the impersonal that is being undervalued by an approach that is effectively denying inanimate objects their autonomy by trying to present them virtually as the organs of God 's body .
10 They were researching a new power source that was being developed by a Danish engineer .
11 But the argument is too neat , and dependent on the assumption of a desire on the part of filmmakers to express themselves about contemporary realities that was being repressed by the censorship system .
12 In 1955 he was employed for one week by Douglas Fairbanks Limited at Elstree as a cover director , British cover director on a T V film that was being directed by an American .
13 The meeting itself was more like a wake , for more and more athletes were finding out that they were not going to compete in Edinburgh after all because of the boycott that was being staged by the African , Caribbean and Asian countries .
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