Example sentences of "of what is being [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of what is being done by my Department |
| 2 | Even in more casual situations people often try to get at the upshot of what is being said with such utterances as ‘ What are you trying to tell me ? ’ |
| 3 | The better your listening skills the better your understanding of what is being said to you . |
| 4 | The listener is better able to recognise the grammar and syntactic structure of what is being said by using the information contained in the intonation : for example , such things as the placement of boundaries between phrases , clauses or sentences , the difference between questions and statements and the use of grammatical subordination may be indicated . |
| 5 | It is no weakness to take notice of what is being said in such a consultation . |
| 6 | You may find that your local environmental group publishes a list of what is being collected for recycling in your area . |
| 7 | A great deal of pleasure and interest is lost if the reader is not able to form mental pictures of what is being referred to , however fleetingly . |
| 8 | I would like to pursue both of these issues with the Welsh Office and would appreciate a better understanding of what is being achieved through the forum and how voluntary environmental bodies feel about the White Paper Second Year Report procedure , which requires the publication of a separate report for Wales . |
| 9 | But the government believes that , not least in the light of what is being achieved in other countries , the standards now generally attained by our pupils are neither as good as they can be , nor as good as they need to be if young people are to be equipped for the world of the twenty-first century . |
| 10 | Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context . |
| 11 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |