Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , methods were being developed to allow the mounting weight of Bomber Command to inflict an ever-deeper mark accurately on the allotted targets . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ The campaign is being organised to mirror the real thing . |
| 3 | Vote for Huggett ( 1948 ) , for example , shows the family patriarch played by Jack Warner making a stand against a corrupt local councillor , then with the he of the local youth club and three eccentric old ladies , exposing the property transactions that stand in the way of a lido and public garden being built to serve the local community . |
| 4 | The £50 million development will make C&P the only manufacturer with plant in each of the three major markets , with Runcorn already serving Europe and a plant in Louisiana being built to supply the American market . |
| 5 | In the first months of 1950 both the British service chiefs and many influential figures in Washington complained that too little was being done to combat the communist threat in the Cold War . |
| 6 | Here he reports on the work being done to bring the 18-year-old VVER up to acceptable safety standards . |
| 7 | In the music department of J.F. Kennedy School there was clear evidence of the efforts being made to disentangle the individual contribution from the group effort for the purpose of making diagnostic assessment : |
| 8 | The contribution of the informal care sector , particularly the family , is now being acknowledged and some attempts are being made to interweave the informal care and the formal provision more closely together . |
| 9 | Efforts are being made to allow the National Trust for Scotland , with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , to buy the building , which has been a convent since 1958 . |
| 10 | Tonight efforts are now being made to contact the little girl 's grandparents . |
| 11 | Very little was done about juvenile labour , she says , with no attempt being made to raise the school-leaving age or to make further technical education compulsory until the age of 17 . |
| 12 | " Yes , if you allow conditions to continue as at present you will find a deliberate attempt is being made to assassinate the Conservative Party . " |
| 13 | Diplomatic relations with the USA had been broken off after World War II , following Albanian suspicions that attempts were being made to subvert the communist regime of Enver Hoxha , who had taken power in 1944 ; relations with the Soviet Union were severed in 1961 following ideological disputes . |
| 14 | Above all , increasing attempts are being made to provide the lay visitor , if he or she so desires , with a genuinely worthwhile educational experience . |
| 15 | Clearly , serious efforts were being made to bring the new Court up to standard , though Malmesbury thought there was still a way to go before all would be consolidated : |
| 16 | He made an immediate impact here , missing just three Southern League matches in his first season and being selected to represent the Southern League against the Football League at Stamford Bridge in April . |
| 17 | Charles de Bues , RSPCA branch co-ordinator , said the rarely awarded certificates were being presented to recognise the physical effort shown by everyone involved in the rescue . |
| 18 | The ward may be used in conjunction with a classroom session , patient care being used to demonstrate the practical application of a particular subject . |
| 19 | Another debate during this early period revolved around the actual terms ( and their implications ) being used to describe the new discipline . |
| 20 | In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved . |
| 21 | If stagflation becomes a problem , then demand management policies ( both fiscal and monetary ) should be used to eliminate demand-deficient unemployment , with back-up ‘ supply-side ’ policies being used to cure the remaining unemployment . |
| 22 | Since the currently accumulating social security receipts were invested in Treasury securities , however , they were being used to fund the current budget deficit . |
| 23 | Assuming that consensus can be reached between both parties as to the principal deal terms , with structuring being used to bridge the inevitable gap between the expectations of the purchaser and vendors , it will be important for this consensus to be confirmed in writing in the form of non-binding heads of agreement . |
| 24 | ‘ The scarves are being used to fan the age-old fear of the Arab which has been dormant — simmering — since the Algerian war . ’ |
| 25 | The PARTS tagger is currently being used to reduce the syntactic ambiguity problem for the FIDDITCH parser ( Hindle , 1983b ) . |
| 26 | Rabbits can either be bolted with loose ferrets or be dug out with the assistance of line ferrets , the line being used to indicate the precise location of the quarry . |
| 27 | Yet the NFA was slow to report Stotler Funds ' inadequacies , including the fact that money from the mutual funds was being used to buy the commercial paper of the failing parent firm . |
| 28 | Electrochemistry is also being used to probe the electronic structure of the fullerenes ( K. M. Kadish et al , J. Am . |
| 29 | If the finger had not been pointed , all the class would have known who was being called to face the fearsome sister , and when Millie stood by the side of the nun 's desk , the sheet of paper was immediately thrust into her face with the demand , ‘ What do you mean by that ? |
| 30 | When Coleman looked into this , DIA assets in Lebanon reported that much of it was being printed there , with large numbers of genuine $1 bills being bleached to provide the right paper for phony $100 bills . |