Example sentences of "and [adv] the [noun] are [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning departments in local councils up and down the country are being overwhelmed ; for example , West Sussex County Council currently receives an application to build a course each day . |
| 2 | It should be noted that the profits of the blenders have been excluded from the welfare function since the policies were aimed exclusively at protecting the dominant firms and also the blenders are being treated as import agents . |
| 3 | It was once a farmhouse , and now the outbuildings are being converted into self-catering accommodation . |
| 4 | Big names from the Asian communities in Britain , America and even the subcontinent are being snapped up by major studios in the film capital . |
| 5 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |