Example sentences of "be be [verb] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four out of five homeless people seeking shelter at a city centre night hostel are being turned away because of overcrowding . |
| 2 | Their increasing problem is that more and more lesser functions are being devolved downwards but without the resources to provide them . |
| 3 | Transplant programmes are being held back because of a shortage of donor organs , and more are urgently needed . |
| 4 | They feel they are being sucked inexorably and against their will into the adoption of a rather ugly or artificial persona , though there are various expressions that this mask can take . |
| 5 | It was only then I began to grasp that several of these old dears , whose daily habit to foregather here it clearly was , were as drunk as lords and were being helped not because of their age , but because otherwise they would fall down . |
| 6 | It 's being done up and down the country as well as round our vicinity of mining . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's being done quietly and as a society perhaps we are not so concerned . |
| 8 | To be known as the Nadd Al Sheba Golf and Race Club , it is being built in and around a horse-racing track and is scheduled to open in October of next year . |
| 9 | The training they describe affirms and enhances the role of the paraprofessional as an agent of the client group or community that is being served rather than as an arm of the worker or the social service agency . |
| 10 | Where the debtor has been adjudged bankrupt or is a company which is being wound up or in relation to which an administration order is in force , the application can only be made by the official receiver , the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate , the liquidator or the administrator or , with the leave of the court , by a victim of the transaction . |
| 11 | A county spokeswoman said : ‘ Clwyd has agreed with Wrexham Maelor that it can have the buildings but it is being held up because of the situation with NEWI . |
| 12 | Builders ' rubble and other waste material some of it possibly of a dangerous nature is being dumped there and in particular the northernmost pond is being filled in and levelled . |
| 13 | The United States Department of State announced on Dec. 21 that military aid to Guatemala was being suspended immediately because of the government 's failure to " criticize or exhaustively investigate " those responsible for human rights abuses . |
| 14 | It was reported in October that the party 's Rural Policy Research Centre , the leading agricultural research group , was being closed down because of its links with Zhao Ziyang and the pro-democracy movement . |
| 15 | US diplomatic sources said that the initiative was being pursued secretly because of fears that it could be sabotaged by anti-Arafat Palestinian factions advocating armed struggle against Israel rather than negotiations . |