Example sentences of "[subord] is being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we did take control of the Council I think we would try and decentralize much more than is being done at the moment . |
| 2 | With an average of nine months ' notice , the timber trade — buying on its own responsibility — could procure , at a lower average price per standard than is being paid at present , enough timber for all the houses that the building industry can build . |
| 3 | The argument is that if firms find that they are producing more than is being demanded , they will observe an involuntary increase in their inventories of unsold goods and so will rectify this by cutting back on production and laying off workers . |
| 4 | In addition , application of recombinant DNA techniques could be used to isolate and characterise some of the genes associated with schizophrenia , as is being done currently with the muscular dystrophies and Huntington 's chorea . |
| 5 | Increasing further the proportion of owner-occupiers could be achieved by giving substantial inducements to potential owners , or by making the public rented sector less attractive , as is being done in a variety of ways in the late 1980s by the Conservative administration . |
| 6 | We represent over four million levy paying members , the trade unions that is , and it 's only right that they should have a proper say in the election of the Lad Labour leader , not just the thirty percent as is being suggested here . |
| 7 | The difficulty is if we move to something , er , which is supply based as is being suggested , then it could impact even , even greater and so there 's no perfect er , system for this , but there 's got to be a better way . |
| 8 | This report highlights the main issues which will affect this committee in the period during nineteen ninety three and nineteen ninety six , section one repeats the desire of the committee that it would like as a minimum to sustain the whole of the revenue service and the similar volume of capital payments in the period of the medium term plan as is being divided in this year . |
| 9 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |