Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] is [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BRITON sentenced to 40 years in a Thai jail for drug trafficking is being kept in chains , his father revealed yesterday . |
| 2 | The cutting edge of computer technology is being used by a number of artists worldwide to create new worlds or virtual reality ( VR ) in the new computer art jargon . |
| 3 | A successful programme of infill drilling is being conducted in the older fields . |
| 4 | Even if one does not believe in the principle of intellectual conservation of quantity , the same amount of study time is being poured into different shaped vessels , one tall and narrow , the other flat and wide . |
| 5 | So it 's fitting that his collection of fishing tackle is being auctioned off in the town tomorrow . |
| 6 | The Court of Session action is being raised by the lord provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff-Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson , in an attempt to reassert their rights as co-trustees of the Torrie Collection . |
| 7 | A World of Work centre is being built , with strong links to local businesses , which provide vocational training . |
| 8 | The old er the old kind of chestnut question is was it a success or a failure ? |
| 9 | A piece of motoring history is being reduced to rubble with the demolition of one of Britain 's oldest and most successful car plants . |
| 10 | A new position of community tutor is being created . |
| 11 | The intranasal route of vaccine administration is being explored . |
| 12 | What kind of price range is being considered ? |
| 13 | However , Parkdale Archerfield Ltd is now in liquidation , and its appeal against the refusal of planning permission is being promoted by consultants working in effect on behalf of the company 's principal creditor , the Co-operative Bank . |
| 14 | surely that system of paperwork shuffling is is gon na come to end with this . |
| 15 | I , on a point of order Madam Speaker , I understand that a major announcement in connection with rail privatisation is being made at this moment by way of written answer and press conference erm the statement will reveal a huge increase in access charges for railway operators and ultimately therefore huge increases in costs for tax payers and passengers . |
| 16 | In practice history is being created this moment at a dizzying pace . |
| 17 | As the chairman of British Telecom declared in 1982 , the traditional role of telecommunications in voice communication is being rapidly superseded by ‘ information exchange ’ made possible by the merger of computer and communications systems . |
| 18 | A breakthrough in software fault-tolerance is being claimed by AT&T Co 's Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill , New Jersey . |
| 19 | The role that television plays in family life is being studied by videotaping people in their own homes . |
| 20 | A small international centre for educational evaluation at Ibadan has been set up ( and will be described further in my next chapter ) and another on child development is being planned in Nairobi . |
| 21 | The convention on climate change is being blocked by the US on the grounds that global warming remains unproven . |
| 22 | Of course , there are still places where the old-style canalizing approach to river management is being pushed through ; and the conflict of values which underlies this whole issue raises a number of questions which are not easy to answer . |
| 23 | Current efforts to empower the end-user are typical of these — the qualities of current software documents how the transition to end-user computing is being made possible . |
| 24 | The Northern understands that up to £12,500 per pylon compensation is being offered in talks between the company and people who own land along the route . |
| 25 | A novel means of modelling science based on co-citation clustering is being appraised : |
| 26 | A program for survey analysis is being written , financed by a research grant from the Overseas Development Administration , and this program is currently on test in developing countries . |