Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A leaflet giving details and criteria for support is being produced which will be available shortly . |
| 2 | The prisoner , who is serving a five year sentence for burglary was being moved from Dartmoor to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | the Chi the Chinese empire is , is actually growing but possibly in the sense that within Chinese territory marginal land that has n't previously been used for agriculture is being brought into use . |
| 4 | However the report also stated that the economy was " entering a critical stage in which the pace of the expansion [ had ] begun to slacken " ; both the United Kingdom ( Ireland 's most important trading partner ) and the United States were in recession , and prospects for agriculture were being affected by budgetary constraints within the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | An application for demolition is being considered by the Department of the Environment |
| 6 | In Washington the preliminaries for recognition were being completed . |
| 7 | Although a common form of procedure for research is being recommended here it should not be thought for one moment that a hard and fast programme is being suggested to which every research enquiry should conform . |
| 8 | The knowledge and understanding gained has value in prioritising policies when guidelines for practice are being considered and for the counselling provisions which are now mandatory under The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act which regulates infertility services and comes into effect in July 1991 . |
| 9 | And Truman felt that his authority as president was being directly challenged and he had no alternative but to sack MacArthur . |
| 10 | It was an interesting time to be at the centre , for news was beginning to get through from Burma and plans for reconstruction after liberation were being drawn up . |
| 11 | SUICIDAL children in Ellesmere Port who turn to counsellors for help are being told there is a 50-week waiting list , it was claimed last night . |
| 12 | And that 's a pity , because the technology for recycling is being developed . |
| 13 | After a reasonable period of time ( for example , two years ) there should be a review of the position to determine whether the mobility clause needs to be retained in the contract of employment if it was found that the need for mobility was being met by a sufficiently large group of staff willing to be mobile . |
| 14 | The only thing about work is are you working with oil ? |
| 15 | It is the need , when an application for asylum is being considered by the special adjudicator , for a second interpreter . |
| 16 | Their applications for asylum are being processed gradually ; most are still awaiting a decision . |
| 17 | Just as the old national differences in styles of play are being gradually erased by the globalisation of football , so the cultures around spectatorship are undergoing a period intensified mixing and matching . |
| 18 | In many cases the resources available to the schools during the period of change are being reduced . |
| 19 | Appropriate measures of change are being specially developed for each element . |
| 20 | He was rather disapproving of Hope 's being a Member of Parliament : he knew several politicians and trusted none . |
| 21 | The former , according to Dr Oliver Rackham , indicates that areas of woodland were being carefully managed as coppices with standards in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to produce the poles for rails and hurdles and the timber for the heavier tracks . |
| 22 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 23 | If , as the Minister says , we recouped so much money on the Gulf war , may I ask him to explain why the Ministry of Defence is being so mean and tight-fisted towards some of those who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice during that war ? |
| 24 | In Georgia , which had declared independence on April 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38159 ] , the Supreme Soviet banned the CP on Aug. 27 , and it was reported on Aug. 28 that a Georgian ministry of defence was being created . |
| 25 | Installation of the software which is supplied on just one disk , does n't take long , but it does ask you questions about the configuration of your system such as which kind of computer is being used , the name of the graphics adapter and the resolution . |
| 26 | The laws of physics are being obeyed within every cell of the muscles . |
| 27 | The buck of decision is being passed down the chain of consequence . |
| 28 | Of course 's was a very important customer of the of the railway . |
| 29 | Apologies for tonight 's meeting have been received from Nancy , who is on holiday , and may of course is is n't here because Danny has died . |
| 30 | The last sentence is is the most difficult one , because of this word withstand , which of course is is very rarely used in this sense now . |