Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] [prep] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the run-up to next month 's Twickenham showdown , discussions are understood to be taking place on the staging of a floodlit fixture to officially hansel the completed Murrayfield super-stadium in the autumn of 1994 . |
| 2 | Some fear that the statement could catch ‘ innocent ’ schemes as well as any that clearly defeat the purpose of the legislation , and discussions are reported to be taking place between the Revenue and the profession as to how exactly the statement will be implemented . |
| 3 | When a government is weak and under pressure and when policies are seen to be failing , little authority may attach to a Prime Minister and the advantages of office are rapidly turned to personal disadvantage . |
| 4 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 5 | Artists whose cash-pressed dealers have ended their stipends are said to be climbing on board . |
| 6 | Forty well organised criminal groups are said to be smuggling works of art out of Russia . |
| 7 | Four British manufacturers are believed to be fighting for the contract to supply Virgin with machines . |
| 8 | Up to 20,000 Irish supporters are believed to be planning to go to the US . |
| 9 | Two big Chicago House DJs are rumoured to be rolling up later to take us into town . |
| 10 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 11 | As early as Dec. 2 , three warships were reported to be proceeding towards the Somali coast carrying a 1,800-strong US Marine task force . |
| 12 | The animals were found to be carrying antibodies against a variant of the hepatitis virus , indigenous to Old World primates , but unknown in the New World outside captivity . |
| 13 | Second , it was written by a working party headed by John McFarlane , which meant that the non-practitioners were seen to be playing a prominent role in the APB 's activities and encouraging widespread debate . |
| 14 | As Clarke and Morrison discuss , their data are comparable with other studies in Fiji : such losses were known to be occurring more than 20 years ago but went unheeded in the wake of development . |
| 15 | The largest sustained activity by heads in primary schools is said to be teaching . |
| 16 | The lovely valley of the Aldudes is another great centre , be warned , for the chasse aux palombes , which means that in season , that is in late October , it is certain to be loud with trigger-happy locals and visitors , from over in nearby Spain as well as from France , blazing passionately away towards the magnificent beech woods in which the harassed wood-pigeons are presumed to be sheltering . |
| 17 | Because the state assumes that women are men 's natural dependants , widows benefits are reasonably generous , whereas widowers are expected to be earning or receiving some form of social security in their own right . |
| 18 | PLATFORM-soled shoes are said to be coming back . |
| 19 | The companies are believed to be looking at ways to have it support Windows applications as well , but the paper was told that that problem has not yet been solved . |
| 20 | Both television companies are said to be losing a lot of money on baseball . |
| 21 | Many of Japan 's largest and most famous corporations , including Matsushita Electric , Hitachi and Nippon Steel , have reported major drops in profits while nearly a third of the country 's medium-sized companies are thought to be losing money . |
| 22 | Companies are estimated to be paying out £6 million a day in household and commercial claims — £1.30 for each £1 of premiums they collect . |
| 23 | Potential suitors are believed to be holding off from making outright bids for fear that there may be further black holes in Ferranti 's balance sheet . |
| 24 | For perceived health values there were five items ; no more than two responses were allowed to be missing . |
| 25 | She said more parents were rumoured to be planning to transfer their children . |
| 26 | Late on Jan. 11 Lithuanians were reported to be flooding into Vilnius in their thousands to reinforce cordons around key buildings . |
| 27 | Some big bids were said to be arriving late in the day , pointing towards further gains on Monday if Wall Street continued to hold steady . |
| 28 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 29 | It took some time , but after 36 buns and a 40-ounce bottle of whiskey had been used up , the gulls were found to be reacting admirably and appeared to be enjoying the ‘ experiment ’ as much as the engineers . |
| 30 | On Feb. 12 the Tadjik Communist Party ( CP ) headquarters was besieged by rioters who succeeded in setting part of the building on fire ; the Tadjik Supreme Soviet Presidium declared a state of emergency and a night-time curfew in Dushanbe ; and , fearing a pogrom , Armenians were reported to be fleeing the city . |