Example sentences of "[that] is being [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exaggerating a physical movement often achieves the position that is being sought . |
| 2 | If , however , it is genuine , convinced , voluntary consent that is being sought , then free and open discussion can not be avoided , for what genuine consent needs is that people should feel quite free to voice their doubts and opposition , if only to create a situation in which there is the possibility of overcoming such doubts and hostility . |
| 3 | and generating information that can help to highlight the issues underlying the problem that is being explored , so that new solutions are found . |
| 4 | It is difficult for them to understand the fear that is being expressed unless they share it themselves , when there will be a mutual clinging . |
| 5 | When the basic flow is established , the light can be allowed to sparkle , dance , or be steady , glowing , smooth or rippling , according to the music that is being expressed . |
| 6 | It is even more essential , when for some reason the opposite view that is being expressed is not being accepted , to take extreme care to make it known how much you appreciate the views being expressed by the individual . |
| 7 | For Richards the moment of poetic creation is characterized by an exceptional sensitivity or ‘ vigilance ’ towards the entire range of impulses relevant to the situation that is being expressed , and by the organization of these impulses into an ordered and harmonious whole . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ It is an indication of the breadth of concern that is being expressed across the county not only by parents and governors but by all who are touched by education . ’ |
| 9 | And is the operational order er the document that is being referred to be the plaintiff 's council . |
| 10 | The time is also right to give more responsibility to the general public where it rightly belongs ; after all , it is your body that is being affected . |
| 11 | be arranged so that the environment of the sound within the lists is as much the same as possible , i.e. same stress pattern , same CV pattern , words with short and long segments kept separate ( especially with regard to the sound that is being checked ) . |
| 12 | Also , it should not be forgotten that it is raw data that is being presented and not refined information . |
| 13 | If that were the case , the Bill would be very different from the one that is being presented . |
| 14 | A title is a statement encapsulating the main points of an argument ; in most cases , it could be rewritten in the form of a question that is being answered by your essay . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Paramax Systems Inc has picked the SoftBench framework to be part of the STARS software engineering environment project that is being funded by America 's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) . |
| 16 | They can help bridge the communication divide between information system technologist and the ultimate user , and also ensure that due account is taken of the quality and type of information that is being manipulated , communicated and stored on the systems . |
| 17 | I 'm using a white colour pencil here in order to draw a line from to the work that is being mounted on here . |
| 18 | Will the right hon. Gentleman take this opportunity to condemn the campaign that is being mounted in some sections of the popular press ? |
| 19 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 20 | In a way , I suppose , it seems rather illogical to dismiss the value of the brochure altogether , for all types of customer , and at the same time suggest that the best way a customer can get the information s/he needs is to use a list of telephone numbers printed in the very brochure that is being dismissed . |
| 21 | To regard the latter as systematically oppressing madness and forcing it to the margins — to literature , or the hospital — is simply to repeat , in reverse , the very structure that is being criticized . |
| 22 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 23 | For example , they associate liberal democracy with the core countries , arguing that such a system is only sustainable over substantial periods in countries which are exploiting the entire world-system , and can ‘ buy-off ’ popular demands from their own residents because of the wealth that is being appropriated from other countries . |
| 24 | However , I can no longer read some of the rubbish that is being written about the current English team and still stay silent . |
| 25 | But the Scrabo stone that was salvaged from the fire is to be re-used to face the new free standing church that is being built alongside the tower . |
| 26 | Is it not clear to the Minister that we should be concerned , as my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) has stated , about the plight of the people of Iraq and the starvation that is being caused ? |
| 27 | Even when parents strongly disapprove of the way their teenager is behaving , it is still important to make it clear that it is the behaviour and not the person that is being rejected . |
| 28 | Living things constantly transform one kind of molecule into another , during digestion , assimilation , respiration and repair ; and many of these transformations are effected by attaching hydroxyl radicals , ultimately derived from water , to the particular organic material that is being attended to . |
| 29 | There er erm other er matter that er erm I er wanted to mention erm if only to get the word sustainability on to the tape that is being recorded on the |
| 30 | The 7100LC Hummingbird CPU has been configured for both big- and little-endian application software , encouraging speculation that is being styled to accommodate Microsoft Corp Windows NT — to which Hewlett-Packard has not yet committed on its RISC lines — as well as Unix . |