Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [being] [vb pp] that " in BNC.

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1 Yes , things that we were told 20 years ago that were perfectly safe , it 's now being proved that they 're not safe .
2 ON A daily basis it 's now being suggested that the Duchess of York is in danger of losing custody of her two daughters .
3 Reporter Davies , 40 , said : ‘ The press is currently taking a lot of criticism but these awards show it is also being recognised that a difficult job is being done . ’
4 It is also being recognised that immigration may become a hot political problem on the international scene .
5 It is already being said that if Wales keep them below 30 points it will be a moral victory .
6 It is now being recognised that it can be appropriate to use musical settings of the ‘ traditional ’ words in the ‘ new ’ services .
7 It is now being claimed that the ERP allows the objective monitoring of well specified mental activities .
8 By this time , too , it was also being alleged that some of the original apostles had travelled to Britain .
9 Now it was again being ruled that the Yugoslavs should be handed over , so long as it was not necessary to use force — but to this a subsequent note now added a very important qualification .
10 In place of an unbridled power struggle in which almost anything was permissible and extreme instability in relations between states was the norm , it was now being asserted that the task of diplomacy was not to deceive or even perhaps to defeat an opponent , but rather to reconcile conflicting ambitions and help different states to coexist , at least for considerable periods , in a reasonable degree of amity .
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