Example sentences of "[adv] [be] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start deciding what you are going to wear and plan well ahead if your dress/shoes/bridesmaids ' dresses etc. are being made |
| 2 | Surgeons in are being told to do less emergency operations because of the extra costs involved and in surgeons are ordered to give priority to patients who come from G P budget holders because there 's more money coming from those budget holders , nothing to do with basis of need . |
| 3 | And she had an incoherent sense that he and she together were being pushed in squares of black-and-white across the game board , and she did n't want to comply with the games masters by speaking aloud , let alone complaining , of the antagonisms they orchestrated . |
| 4 | It is clear despite this that not enough is being done , and the seriousness of the position is still not fully realized by the average person . |
| 5 | However in Erwin 's opinion , ‘ While it 's talked about a lot , not enough is being done ’ . |
| 6 | The Foyle Fisheries Commission , which is in charge of the river , has recently been criticised by Donegal Senator Paddy McGowan , who believes not enough is being done to trap the poachers . |
| 7 | Do you think enough is being done ? |
| 8 | Is it strident enough in stating that not enough is being achieved ? |
| 9 | In response to criticisms that not enough was being done to inform people in high risk areas — and some level of randon is present virtually everywhere — the Department of the Environment recently sent out a leaflet to every house in the south west of England . |
| 10 | Mr Leslie Draper , her solicitor , said : ‘ She was appalled at the hardship following atrocities in Northern Ireland and was not convinced enough was being done for the people left behind . |
| 11 | And it was brought up last time that erm , in the Potter Street area , not enough was being done to occupy the minds of the |
| 12 | Perhaps , then , they would ask themselves and others if enough was being done to get him out . |
| 13 | During the inter-war period , when housing expectations among women were rising , one Medical Officer of Health found that mortality rates amongst families who had moved out of a slum area into new council houses actually rose , because correspondingly less was being spent on food . |
| 14 | That is the case with P&O Scottish Ferries : its grant for providing services to and from Shetland and Orkney has just been been raised by £1.9m , to £8.6m . |
| 15 | Normally , any government trying this sort of trick would soon be being ordered to pay out in the courts . |
| 16 | The people looking after chickens do not identify with individual chickens and , as has been said already , very large numbers of animals should not be being looked after by very small numbers of people who have no incentive to treat them as individuals . |
| 17 | And in the right circumstances er it need not be be criticized , but the circumstances have to be right for it . |
| 18 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 19 | What differentiates them is the degree to which it is acknowledged that an attempt to influence those above is being made . |
| 20 | TransAction clients will be provided with an organisational file and a guide to home-moving to inform them of what exactly is being done on their behalf at every stage . |
| 21 | But they were not clear about what exactly is being applied for . |
| 22 | What exactly is being defended against ‘ the other ’ , identified with the immigrant strangers ? |
| 23 | As always with statistics , one needs to ask what exactly is being counted , and for what purpose . |
| 24 | This nervousness about who exactly is being addressed , and how , is linked to a growing sense that the old constellations of class , taste and political affiliation which used to serve as navigational aids for the development of editorial policy have disintegrated . |
| 25 | What exactly is being conveyed , and what are the boundaries and covenants which will affect you ? |
| 26 | By rushing headlong into allseaters , money that could be better used elsewhere is being spent on unwanted and potentially dangerous seats . |
| 27 | While a police constable was in the living room , the car parked outside was being daubed by the youth . |
| 28 | A closer interpretation is necessary in family work , with the counsellor focusing on the statement rather than passing it off or trying to pretend that it was not said , seeking to analyse and ascertain what exactly was being said , why is was said , and what the real message might be . |
| 29 | The president of Prodigy Services Co says the viewdata system is considering a move away from its flat-fee monthly pricing and may start charging by usage for some features , including its bulletin boards : according to Communications Daily , Ross Glatzer said the company 's management is concerned about ‘ rapidly rising telecommunications costs , driven by soaring growth in members ’ use of a handful of features that are most expensive for Prodigy to provide — stock quotes and company news , bulletin boards and airline schedules ; ’ Glatzer said details still are being worked out , but ‘ it 's become clear we must introduce some timed charges for some features in the second half of this year , ’ adding that the problem is one of trying to use flat-rate pricing for some features for which others charge $6 to $18 an hour . |
| 30 | What it meant in human terms was that black UK citizens excluded from their own country ( Britain ) were and still are being forced to live in countries where they have no right to live or work . |