Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , de Groot 's fears , expressed in 1983 , have been reiterated by Emory in 1988 who states that in 1986 some 26023 tourists visited the islands and that the problems of environmental protection are being exacerbated by the influx of mainland Ecuadoreans seeking wealth in the tourist trade . |
| 2 | Sir , — We are all well aware that the harsh effects of the present recession are being felt by the accountancy profession to a degree that is certainly unprecedented in my memory . |
| 3 | While some aspects of education provision are being centralised in the course of reform , the management of staff is being decentralised . |
| 4 | For example , skills in non-destructive testing and inspection are being applied in the nuclear , oil and gas and aerospace industries . |
| 5 | MEMBERS of Parliament are being canvassed by the New Statesman , the weekly left-wing magazine , to find which books have influenced them . |
| 6 | Finally , it seems that attempt are being made in the United Kingdom , Flanders , and the Netherlands to create a more positive image and role for residential care ( see National Institute of Social Work , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | Every day , wrote one social investigator , the ‘ old methods which require manual skill and long practice are being superseded by the progress of mechanical invention . |
| 8 | ENTRIES from the North-East are being sought for the Royal Mail 's twin town award scheme , which aims to find the best link between a British community and a foreign counterpart . |
| 9 | The NHS was created at a time of post-war reconstruction , when large sections of British industry were being nationalised by the Labour government . |
| 10 | Thus once incomes had been pooled and responsibilities for the various household outgoings apportioned , it was clear that some of the carers in Glendinning 's study were being supported by the disabled or elderly person . |
| 11 | The arts generally continued to thrive through public subsidy , to orchestral music above all , and new forms of partnership were being developed between the Arts Council and local authorities and industry and finance . |
| 12 | An Alumni Association is being planned by the School of Hospitality Studies at Thames Valley University . |
| 13 | In so far as they are based upon analogy with the position of courts of law which are not under any such general duty , this reasoning is being undermined as the judiciary increasingly require some statement of reasons within judgments . |
| 14 | DESPITE England manager Graham Taylor 's protests that too much football is being played in the country , clubs often undertake gruelling journeys abroad in mid-season to play in lucrative exhibition friendlies . |
| 15 | Winter gear is being readied at the moment , but it will be hard , all the same , travelling in such weather . ’ |
| 16 | The search for 2 suspects who stayed at the Guest House around the time of the murder is being continued across the country . |
| 17 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 18 | With an estimated cost of DM15 billion , the five-year programme is being implemented through the Treuhandanstalt , the agency responsible for selling off the state-owned assets of the former communist regime in East Germany . |
| 19 | The restoration programme is being funded by the Banca Toscana . |
| 20 | If your upper muscles ( head , shoulders , neck and jaw ) are tense , then that tension is being transmitted to the rest of your body and thence to your mind . |
| 21 | This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material . |
| 22 | David McNeil , who is retiring on Friday as senior depute director of education , admitted to ‘ loose and inappropriate ’ remarks after The Scotsman disclosed that his department is being investigated by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 23 | Well no , you see what 's happening there is , is a , a demand or a drive from the id is being gratified by the ego . |
| 24 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 25 | A great deal of survey-style empirical research is being done outside the academic world , in organizations like the Home Office Research Unit and Social and Community Planning Research . |
| 26 | At present little research is being done on the subject . |
| 27 | Hilary also reported that research is being done into the physiological and psychological aspects of breathing work and we will let you know the results that emerge from this study . |
| 28 | The research is being done by the Museo del Castello di Rivoli and its director Ida Gianelli . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what research is being undertaken into the use of straw as a renewable source of energy . |
| 30 | Claims by McEwan that undue weight is being placed on the episode strike one as disingenuous . |