Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun] be [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four or five camps are being planned for the summer and different ways of leading camps are being explored . |
| 2 | It will be asked in any event to make a detailed assessment of the church 's quality and , where two churches are being considered for redundancy , it is likely to make a strong case that the finer and more historic church should continue in use . |
| 3 | In some parts of the media , though , one or two questions were being posed about the Government 's approach . |
| 4 | Court papers relating to the St Quintin manor at Thornholme show that two bylaw men , a pinder , and one or two constables were being appointed there in the 19th century . |
| 5 | He did say that 30 bids were being reviewed , all from foreign firms or Western-backed joint ventures . |
| 6 | Responding to Senegalese assertions in May 1990 that Mauritania was blocking efforts by the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) and Egypt to find a solution to the border dispute between the two countries , the Mauritanian government claimed that 300,000 Mauritanians were being held in Senegal against their will . |
| 7 | Greater Manchester police confirmed that six suspects are being questioned . |
| 8 | More than 2,000 events are being held throughout the day , including keep-fit sessions , a wheelchair push , tug-o'-war , mass aerobics , wheelie-bin and trolley races , Irish dancing and an aqua disco . |
| 9 | A recent survey by the US Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association reported that more than 90 medicines were being developed to combat AIDS and AIDS-related conditions . |
| 10 | John Leland [ q.v. ] , visiting Malmesbury in the early 1540s , reported that 3,000 cloths were being made there every year . |
| 11 | This part of the task is very slow and time-consuming and if more than one plate is being constructed then they could be clamped together and all be drilled at the same time . |
| 12 | In 1985 , a report to the IWC Scientific Committee revealed that more than 40,000 dolphins were being killed each year as a result of incidental catches in set-nets around Sri Lankan coasts . |
| 13 | I have already explained to the House that 486 vehicles are being manufactured for the Kent link services , which serve Dartford , Swanley and Sevenoaks . |
| 14 | For this same reason , NiCad batteries should be used in preference to dry cells when more than two servos are being driven by the board . |
| 15 | Mr Hamilton said that 1,308 officers and 5,152 soldiers were being made redundant under the second phase of cuts in the armed forces agreed under the Government 's Options for Change programme . |
| 16 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to anyone who can help police track down the killer of a seventy-six-year-old man in Northampton . |
| 17 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 18 | Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more . |
| 19 | ‘ One hundred and fifty guineas is being asked for the freehold , ’ stated the assistant , his eyes fixed on the bottom line of the schedule . |
| 20 | TWO MEN and three women were being questioned last night by Scotland Yard detectives investigating the laundering of proceeds from the £26m Brink's-Mat bullion robbery . |
| 21 | Three booklets and three audiovisuals are being produced from a wealth of materials collected from workshops organised throughout Argentina and Uruguay during the past two years . |
| 22 | Production was up around ten coaches , and eighty wagons were being manufactured , while an average of sixty carriage repairs were turned out weekly . |
| 23 | Of the 74 courses providing student numbers data to [ MS , two had no students and one course was being rapidly phased out . |
| 24 | One farm had received £150,000 from the oil fund , and nine claims were being dealt with , three of which should be paid as advance hardship payments today . |
| 25 | Today , 66 bulls and 9 heifers were being sold by farmers from all over Britain . |
| 26 | A second plant is being built by Fibropower on Humberside and two others are being considered for Scotland and East Anglia . |
| 27 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 28 | A TOWN with one of the worst unemployment figures in East Anglia has been hit by the loss of 21 more jobs , while 30 posts are being axed by a major drugs firm . |
| 29 | Our malt quality was very good which helped when 1993 contracts were being negotiated . |
| 30 | When one friend was being picked on and hacked by a bullying and much bigger opponent , Burton laid the bully out ; when the referee was not looking , of course . |