Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] are [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning departments in local councils up and down the country are being overwhelmed ; for example , West Sussex County Council currently receives an application to build a course each day . |
| 2 | Yes the pegs the pegs go through the tiles so the tiles are are made with little square hole . |
| 3 | So the parents are being discriminating , but the chicks are being very demanding as it were . |
| 4 | So the institutions are being dragooned into subscribing for a package of shares in all 10 companies . |
| 5 | It is doing so because so many people taking up the game are being taught the technicalities of the swing but not the nature of the sport . |
| 6 | It should be noted that the profits of the blenders have been excluded from the welfare function since the policies were aimed exclusively at protecting the dominant firms and also the blenders are being treated as import agents . |
| 7 | It was once a farmhouse , and now the outbuildings are being converted into self-catering accommodation . |
| 8 | Now the proposals are being considered by a public inquiry . |
| 9 | Now the premises are being used as a Community Centre and small workshops . |
| 10 | He is a forestry expert and has a small stud as a hobby , so now the stables are being used again and I wake up to the clop-clop of horses ' hooves on the cobbles in the morning . |
| 11 | Today the cottages are being largely restored to what purports to be their former glory , occupied by middle-class commuters with the standard family ) size of 4. 4 people . |
| 12 | Well the proposals are being worked up , so there are n't actual firm detailed proposals at the moment . |
| 13 | HERE THE PETALS ARE BEING CAREFULLY POSITIONED IN THE DAMP CLAY ( Page 41 ) |
| 14 | Big names from the Asian communities in Britain , America and even the subcontinent are being snapped up by major studios in the film capital . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe the crew are being kept prisoners , ’ Delaney offered , straightening up . |
| 16 | A few comments on this background study will show how the legends are being put into perspective . |
| 17 | The concern of Marland ( 1986 ) and Tickle ( 1987 ) about the lack of research quoted earlier is one of the signs of how the arts are being starved of funds whilst other curriculum areas , most notably the development of the ‘ balanced science ’ curriculum programme through the Secondary Science Review ( Association for Science Education , 1987 ) , have been aided by ethnographic research supported by the DES . |
| 18 | As well as learning about the house 's architecture and chequered history , Friends will be able to see how the interiors are being restored to their original splendour by Historic Scotland conservators on the basis of documentary and physical evidence . |
| 19 | Consequently the full-backs are being asked to provide all the crosses . |
| 20 | Instead the plans are being left to gather dust . |
| 21 | Additional powers will be introduced for the issue of immediate enforcement and prohibition notices where the rules are being broken , or where there is a risk of environmental harm . |
| 22 | Most of the sales have been in New York , where the bonds are being promoted with a radio advertising campaign — ‘ So our dollars can pay for war , your dollars pay for peace . ’ |
| 23 | We are now in a post-war situation , where the laws are being tightened and enforced as the religious police struggle to regain power and lost ground . |
| 24 | The first year of life is enormously dangerous in countries where the statistics are being collected . |
| 25 | Erm during the course of the footings and flooring taking place , bricks have been ordered to come in where the walls are being built together with the joinery . |
| 26 | Yeah you 're not encouraging people to go to where the cars are being parked . |
| 27 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 28 | ‘ It would seem that for too many years little or no research was done on TB and now we do n't seem to have the answers when the questions are being asked . |
| 29 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 30 | It is the main breeding place in the area and I often take visitors there in mid-June , when the pups are being born . |