Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the underlying purpose , that of reducing unnecessary bureaucracy , stripping away the red tape which hinders enterprise and good er governance in this country , is something that the government is very committed to and we intend to promulgate that doctrine throughout all the areas and that of course is being taken forward in legislation . |
| 2 | Hundreds of posters are being circulated around Hartlepool in a bid to jog people 's memories . |
| 3 | On the same day Baasam Abu Sharif , senior adviser to Arafat , claimed that 210 Palestinians had died in Kuwait under torture , and by shooting and hanging , and that hundreds of Palestinians were being held in police stations and were being tortured " in indescribable ways " . |
| 4 | Hundreds of jobs are being axed at the government 's listening station GCHQ . |
| 5 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 6 | With this , hundreds of solutions are being kicked round the world and that 's why I like it . ’ |
| 7 | Hundreds of children are being forced to stay at home because its feared high winds could damage their school buildings . |
| 8 | He was rather disapproving of Hope 's being a Member of Parliament : he knew several politicians and trusted none . |
| 9 | we are trained from a very early age that fundamental of femaleness is is reproductive capability and if we do n't carry out that reproductive capability we 'd lose part of our identity . |
| 10 | And while to a certain extent the chairman was right that the aesthetic of art was being eroded , nonetheless a whole infrastructure of artists and those who dealt with them was being maintained and subsidized , thus providing creative freedom . |
| 11 | APSYCHOLOGIST whose research suggests that almost a fifth of pupils are being bullied has called for government action to tackle the problem . |
| 12 | In Sheffield , Leeds , Manchester and Hull , millions of pounds are being spent on blocks that used the 5M system . |
| 13 | MILLIONS of pounds are being stripped from education budgets in the region and local authority education chiefs say the service will suffer . |
| 14 | Millions of pounds are being spent on improvements to roads and the upgrading of the A1 is hoped to be complete by 2000 . |
| 15 | He claimed that millions of dollars were being spent by the SADF to promote " moderate " black parties and organizations including churches , so as to help ensure continuing white minority domination in post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 16 | ‘ Thomas , in Europe millions of people are being killed . |
| 17 | Now thousands of pounds is being spent to make sure that they know all about it . |
| 18 | Thousands of pounds is being spent installing them in a city centre . |
| 19 | Tens of thousands of women are being given caesarian operations to deliver their babies even when it 's unnecessary according to the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 20 | THOUSANDS of civilians are being slaughtered , starved or tortured in Serbian concentration camps , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 21 | To be concerned about the fate of historic buildings when thousands of people were being uprooted was not necessarily to pity the plumage and forget the dying bird . |
| 22 | Two recent reports by the King 's Fund , an independent health policy group , focus on the revolution in biotechnology , which means thousands of patients are being discharged sooner from hospital . |
| 23 | Thousands of schoolchildren are being given a science lesson by going to the theatre for the day . |
| 24 | THOUSANDS of children are being struck down by a dysentery-type bug sweeping through nursery schools . |
| 25 | Thousands of children are being warned not to go out alone after an eleven year old girl was raped as she walked to school . |
| 26 | According to a report by the non-government Human Rights Commission of Pakistan released on Aug. 18 , thousands of children were being forced into bonded labour , especially in the country 's brick-making and carpet-weaving industries . |
| 27 | Thousands of individuals are being attracted to this scheme by the wide range of benefits being offered ie , cheaper prices , advance bookings , discount theatre tickets for certain performances at council-managed theatres , plus 5% discount off sportswear at Sports Warehouse . |
| 28 | Thousands of questionnaires are being sent out to guage reaction to the plans . |