Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] [being] [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They 're particularly concerned about people over 60 , many of whom are being dismissed as untreatable , even though they 're suffering pain and deformity . |
| 2 | In other words , the boundaries of the formal labour market are being more tightly drawn , a process associated now as in the past with high rates of male unemployment , and it is largely women , with responsibilities for caring , who are being pushed out . |
| 3 | The two boys who are being questioned live near where James was found . |
| 4 | They will have come to understand the socio-cultural system from the inside through direct participation in the network of transactions which constitutes the daily life of those who are being studied . |
| 5 | I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ? |
| 6 | One is that those who are being assessed , however informally , will be blissfully unaware of what is going on and reveal far more about themselves than is wise . |
| 7 | It works in Central America with green iguana which are no longer poached but protected by the people and the ex-poachers who are being trained to farm them . |
| 8 | By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community . |
| 9 | But that is Budgens ' staff who are being trained |
| 10 | The common factors include the problems of good communication and dissemination ; the perceived ‘ ownership ’ of the innovation by those whose practice is most affected ; the firm and explicit adoption of the innovation ; the experience of initial implementation ; the other pressures bearing upon the organisation or individuals who are being asked to change ; the resource implications ; and the extent to which the innovation becomes firmly embedded into the structure of the organisation or the practice of the individual . |
| 11 | This changed with the re-emergence of long-term structural unemployment , leading to the de-incorporation of increasing sections of the working class , ‘ who are being defined out of the edifice of citizenship ’ ( Dahrendorf , 1985 , p. 98 ) . |
| 12 | Will he consider urgently the possibility of the married quarters at the bases being made available to Army personnel who are being made redundant ? |
| 13 | In fact the extant Acts of the Martyrs ( where based on contemporary records and not legends ) do not portray the martyrs as human heroes , but as very frail mortals who are being given supernatural strength . |
| 14 | Usually they are a group from an outdoor centre who are being given a taste of what canoeing can offer them and they have yet to appreciate the finer points of our sport or recreation . |
| 15 | It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated . |
| 16 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 17 | We find children who are being kept off school because they have n't got shoes to wear . |
| 18 | There are women who are being dragged out of their houses in the middle of the night to have forced abortion ! |
| 19 | What is clear is that those who are being dragged through the courts can not afford to pay . |
| 20 | But neither should he allow in only a handful of those who are being persecuted in what used to be Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | These findings suggest that cyclosporin may be of benefit to the colon in patients with ulcerative colitis who are being treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems to me that it is we who are being treated like criminals but I do n't suppose I have any choice . ’ |
| 23 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 24 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 25 | I would remind Mr Bruce that in Scottish schools today the general bias is humanistic and it is the Christian parents who are being denied their rights . |
| 26 | So what can be done to protect those who are being exploited ? |
| 27 | What does the Minister intend to do about the 1,719 prisoners who are being held in police cells ? |
| 28 | It assumes that it is actually the unemployed who are being imprisoned , and , furthermore , is clearly untenable when faced with data which show the numbers unemployed in England and Wales many times greater than the numbers imprisoned . |
| 29 | ‘ The players who are being bought are the tough ones , like Jensen , of Denmark . |
| 30 | But it is not just the former penpushers who are being sacrificed . |