Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When strong opinions are being expressed , ask for reasons . |
| 2 | Other methods of dating based on similar principles of measuring the balance between decaying and stable isotopes are being developed , arid these may well become as important as radiocarbon dating . |
| 3 | Case studies of locational change in selected producer services are being carried out , and the implications of the results for urban and regional policies are being considered . |
| 4 | The nuclear-free zone proposal was reportedly in the annual ASEAN discussions in 1986 , and Soviet spokesmen underlined press reports at the close of the following annual ASEAN Conference in June 1987 that specific plans were being worked out to set up such a zone which would be examined at a summit level meeting of the ASEAN states in Manila in December . |
| 5 | " A woman worker " wrote to the Despatch in late August , claiming that " persistent attempts are being made by the men to work on the motives of selfishness and self-interest of the women " . |
| 6 | The publication of the tape is likely to cause further concern to Diana who has already told friends that she believed that at least some of her private calls were being monitored and recorded . |
| 7 | This is done as soon as some function is declared ( the simplest necessary declaration is that some solid entities are being entered ) and some volume exists , ie geometric entities that give more than a single coordinate value in each orthogonal direction . |
| 8 | It estimated that more 6,000 political prisoners were being held in Turkish prisons . |
| 9 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 10 | Within the Commission for Restitution , which is headed by Sidorov , working groups are being set up . |
| 11 | The main reason for this is that the liabilities of the major investing institutions are are primarily nominal , although some pensions are index-linked . |
| 12 | Even within existing state bodies , the workings of legal or administrative imperatives are being complicated by commercial forces , which reflect the revolution in the bureaucratic culture of British institutions over the past decade . |
| 13 | All over the country this week stately homes are being put to bed . |
| 14 | Safer ground had to be found and in any case with the coming of war the Progressive demands were being replaced by new constraints . |
| 15 | Most of the sex in the original text survives but the producers are aware that fictional nipples are being counted by the kind of heaving bodies which consist of several men in suits . |
| 16 | While widely recognised as militarily irrelevant , the Franco-German brigades are being enlarged as a successful symbol of European cooperation . |
| 17 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 18 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 19 | The operation followed a tip off that stolen cars were being processed or 'rung' there . |
| 20 | The operation followed a tip off that stolen cars were being processed or 'rung' there . |
| 21 | New nutritional guidelines are being widely promoted . |
| 22 | Badgers which have been the victims of cruel baiters are being introduced back into the wild . |
| 23 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 24 | Many hundreds have been arrested on suspicion of corruption ; after referendums last month , the voting system is being changed ( to reduce the power of the party bosses ) and state subsidies for political parties are being abolished . |
| 25 | Since at least 17% of hypertensives were newly discovered , at least 46% of confirmed cases were being treated insufficiently . |
| 26 | A simple model of human face recognition based on work by the grant holders and other British groups is being employed as a framework within which to design and interpret experiments . |
| 27 | This is a model of the diffusion process that takes account of the observation that often a number of different interrelated technologies are being diffused simultaneously . |
| 28 | TRADITIONAL English dovecotes are being used as tee-markers on Japanese golf courses . |
| 29 | Well , different utilities , different roads are being destroyed , bridges , I mean are these things going on ? |
| 30 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |