Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE PIECE of political folk wisdom is being tested in this campaign — possibly to destruction . |
| 2 | A traditional interior does not have to be incompatible with accommodating whole families , nor with providing meals ; yet an increasing number of old pub interiors are being sacrificed on the altar of the identikit eating house — whether the brewer 's concept be a downmarket steakhouse or part of a family restaurant chain masquerading as an independent local concern . |
| 3 | Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations . |
| 4 | Thousands of British Rail leaflets are being delivered to homes in Redcar giving details of timetables and fares and include a £1 return special offer to main North-East stations . |
| 5 | The infrastructure to usher in the brave new world of interactive multimedia applications is being put in place at a breakneck pace in the US , and Englewood , Colorado cable television operator Tele-Communications Inc has just announced plans to invest $1,900m to install fibre optic cable in 250 cities , towns and counties by 1996 . |
| 6 | A programme of National Certificate Modules is being developed with a view to accreditation as a Level I SVQ . |
| 7 | The issue of perpetual preference shares is being offered by underwriters led by Lehman Brothers . |
| 8 | For similar reasons , forms of current cost accounting are being applied to some of the newly-privatized ( regulated ) industries , such as the water industry . |
| 9 | The national network of community-based media workshops is being decimated and little has emerged to replace it . |
| 10 | Imposed management is a necessary desideratum , as 11.3 million ha of mature forest land is being lost annually . |
| 11 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |
| 12 | A smaller part of the total use of peptic ulcer drugs are being prescribed for diseases other than peptic ulcer — for example , oesophagitis and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome . |
| 13 | It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office . |
| 14 | However , in those situations where professionals and paraprofessionals are working alongside each other , the team approach seems to be gaining wider acceptance as its potential for making optimum use of available personnel resources is being recognized . |
| 15 | Only 13 per cent of available CFC refrigerant was being recovered from domestic fridges in 1991 , according to a survey of local authorities . |
| 16 | Similarly , it would seem that an excessive amount of expensive building work is being put into palatial Government offices all over the country . |
| 17 | There has been very wide extension in the sense that a large number of new course options are being taught involving new specialisms . |
| 18 | Only about 20 per cent of local government revenue was being raised from households actually required to pay rates . |
| 19 | Thus the whole status of local education authorities is being eroded both by centralization — to the Secretary of State — and by decentralization to individual schools and colleges . |
| 20 | New Hartlepool MP Peter Mandelson claims the case of Natalie Readman , five , who was turned away from the town 's general hospital due to a shortage of beds , proves that the quality of local health services is being eroded by the government 's NHS reforms . |
| 21 | Once more , general policies which are leading to the residualization of local authority housing are being reinforced by demographic trends . |
| 22 | The Prince of Wales visits Castlebrae High tomorrow to see how more than £1.2 million of Urban Aid cash is being used to create a World of Work complex to give pupils a taste of what ‘ real ’ jobs are like . |