Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] be be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noted that Size One Free Range eggs offered by Marks & Spencer are being retailed at £2.30 per dozen , representing a difference of 190% mark-up between the producer and the supermarket . |
| 2 | The multinational giant Procter & Gamble is being accused by Edward Kennedy and other senior US senators of practising corporate censorship . |
| 3 | Trains from Shoeburyness and Tilbury are being re-routed to Liverpool Street . |
| 4 | Anyway it turned out we met Ann and erm both Martin and Ian are been having a similar trauma . |
| 5 | Beer , brandy , Scotch and Malibu were being drunk out of plastic cups , everybody was in uniform and there were lots of medals and badges in evidence . |
| 6 | The bombers could be brought down or exploded in the air by Surface-to-Air Missiles and SAMS were being turned out like sausages , according to Khrushchev , in order to ring Moscow and other cities . |
| 7 | Although Great Britain and Ireland was being hammered on this occasion Jane felt so tight and tense at lunchtime on the second day that she asked if she could stand down . |
| 8 | The Interior Minister Larbi Belkheir said on March 12 that 6,786 people interned in January and February were being held in five camps in the Sahara . |
| 9 | Willie lay in bed that night , tired and aching , but the aches were very pleasant ones and as he slept he dreamt that Adam and Eve were being chased by a large whale and that he stood in the garden of Eden wondering if God was nubbly and ate infinite sauce and sagacity . |
| 10 | A reprint of the 1892 Instructions for the conversion of the Broad Gauge between Taunton and Exeter is being sold as a part of this effort . |
| 11 | Radon-potential maps have been supplied on contract , and radon distribution maps for areas in Derbyshire and Devon are being produced in collaboration with the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 12 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 13 | They now operated in cells , and even if Patrick and Jane were being sheltered , only a very small number of people , perhaps no more than two or three , might be aware of it . |
| 14 | Please let Rob know that GV 1&2 PAL are on the way from RANK , NTSC and SECAM and BA 1 & 2 NTSC and SECAM are being quoted for by HVS . |
| 15 | The lack of fully operational IPPs , which could have provided a safeguard against inconsistency , adds to workers ' anxiety that Elizabeth and Helen are being let down . |
| 16 | Limehouse , he said , was full of politicians and Bow was being yuppified . |
| 17 | One advantage Bedfordshire has at this time was that packages such as SIR , EDFAX and COMMUNITEL were being piloted in the country and one librarian was involved in a Prestel project . |
| 18 | Temporary Christmas card shops in London , Belfast , Cardiff , Bristol , Manchester and Croydon are being set up by 4C , and 82 per cent of the retail price will be given to leading charitable organisations . |
| 19 | Celebrating colour : 70 years after the Scottish Colourists held their first joint exhibition in London , paintings by Peploe , Hunter , Cadell and Fergusson are being shown at the MacRobert Gallery , Stirling University , writes Allen Wright . |
| 20 | Strachan is in the squad with rumours of being on the bench and Pemberton is being given his debut cos Jon Newsome is still out . |
| 21 | A SPECIAL two-night package trip to flagging Euro Disney and Paris is being launched for £149 by British Rail . |
| 22 | Whilst Croatia and Slavonia were being laid waste during the centuries-long struggle between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans , Dalmatia , although not entirely at peace , enjoyed relative prosperity and order . |
| 23 | The build-up of the Binbrook Canberra Wing in 1951 meant that Bomber Command had entered the jet age ; the Lincolns and Washingtons were being replaced by an aircraft of very different character and performance . |
| 24 | As with every theory that seems at first to have an obvious answer to every problem , the beautifully simple picture is becoming smudged , the two obvious large plates of Africa and Europe are being confused by the " microplates " of the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 25 | COURTAULDS Research activities in Coventry and Spondon are being reorganised to fit in better with the changing shape of the Group 's operations . |
| 26 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 27 | Knox had gone into the country to translate the Vulgate into English and Lewis was being prepared by an unseen providence for war work no less surprising . |
| 28 | But Anne and Tim are being forced to circumvent the Chuch of England 's rigid approach to divorce by marrying in Scotland . |
| 29 | He said that both Chatichai and Arthit were being treated with respect and would be kept in custody for the minimum length of time . |
| 30 | He was very taken with organisation in the corporate world and MainMan was being fashioned after a large corporation although in its beginning , it was anything but that . |