Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [noun] be [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heritage aspects have been carefully considered and attention is being given to preserving the station 's traditional appearance as much as possible . |
| 2 | The airlift had now stopped and people were being moved on to Myitkyina , hoping to get a plane there . |
| 3 | However , when resources are limited and facilities are being dovetailed into existing built-up areas , it may not be possible to maximise all of these criteria simultaneously and some compromises may have to be accepted . |
| 4 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 5 | As part of the Invitation to Mystery exhibition at Kirkleatham Old Hall museum , a series of demonstrations on the art of conjuring and magic are being staged by Middlesbrough Circle of magicians from Tuesday . |
| 6 | The death of the Empress does not affect my opera in the least , for none of the theatres have been closed and plays are being performed as usual . |
| 7 | The wards have now been cleaned and staff are being screened . |
| 8 | Bedding and pillows are seized and photographs are being taken of the home . ’ |
| 9 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 10 | A woman was arrested and charges are being considered . |
| 11 | The physical process of tendon repair is now well documented and efforts are being made to find drugs which speed up or modify the repair process . |
| 12 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 13 | Long ago , when the colony was flourishing and sugar was being shipped in quantities of menhir-shaped loaves to the storerooms and the kitchens and the taverns and the parlours of the capitals of Europe , a French missionary priest , one Père Labat , wrote one of the first comprehensive travel books about the new world of the islands , chronicling the natives and their customs ( as far as he could ) as well as the way of life the settlers had developed , with their fine mansions and wide verandahs , ornamented with brattishings and cool with shutters and fringed jalousies . |
| 14 | , The Minister of Agriculture has announced that the system of ESAs , designated in 1986 , will continue and measures are being proposed for its improvement . |
| 15 | Not only was the value of education and health to economic growth seriously questioned but fears were being expressed that high public expenditure in these areas was acting rather as an obstacle to economic growth . |
| 16 | In the Elizabethan Restaurant the shift has changed and tea is being prepared ; the duty staff will be in for an early meal shortly . |
| 17 | By 1862 the population of New South Wales had doubled and gold was being recovered in New Zealand , as well as in Queensland , Victoria and West Australia . |