Example sentences of "of [pers pn] be be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Some of them are being taught in dining halls , store rooms and offices .
2 I 'm just trying to remember everybody in the same afternoon , to collect them all because of about six of them are being done around here
3 Lot of them are being sacked off the bloody telly in n it ?
4 Barn owls need barns or similar buildings for breeding , and more and more of them are being converted into country houses .
5 Many of them are being forced to turn the crop into cattle feed because Britain has more potatos than it needs .
6 At present there are no more than half-a-dozen British products in the fields covered by Alvey and most of them are being used experimentally .
7 Each of them is being pumped into the atmosphere in vast amounts : and the reason they are not found in vast amounts is that they are extremely reactive or soluble in water , and so are quickly converted into some other compound , or washed out by rain .
8 An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen .
9 I just wondered is any of them were were going to do a better job than
10 However , the whole lot of them were being manipulated by the men who ran the music business …
11 Most of them were being scraped from the ceiling . ’
12 Although most of them were being paid so little that employment had become a farce , an irrelevance .
13 In the early sixteenth century the prices of essential goods rose more sharply than those of inessentials , and at the same time wage differentials increased again , so it is likely that by this date population was rising again , and that as real wages declined a higher proportion of them was being spent on essential goods and less on luxuries .
14 A levels only happen when the most , a month , more from school and then they have study leave as you are , now erm when you consider the , the year since September has gone very , very quickly , those who have done very little work in that first year , year twelve , will find that been packed in there and that first year in the sixth is just like your year ten ought to have been , perhaps , one or two of you are are realizing
15 In union with him , all of you are being built together into a place where God lives through his Spirit .
16 Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way .
17 so from Audrey Wise but it was an act of parliament which had the support the Labour Party as well because the purpose of it is is to help wives to help mothers
18 ‘ However , equally we have to face the fact that almost all imported mahogany comes from Brazil and much of it is being traded illegally .
19 The third is producing coal cheaply but most of it is being stockpiled because no one wants to buy it .
20 Some of it is being carried out : in March 1991 ESRC announced a £6m programme of research on Global Environmental Change .
21 There are positive signs ; there is more money in circulation and some of it is being spent .
22 Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation ( some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot 's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is ‘ asiatic ’ , outside the confines of Europe .
23 Actually the bulk of it was being done in her father 's absence by his accountant , but still there was enough left for Rory occasionally to feel swamped .
24 By craning his neck he found that the edge of it was being gripped firmly by the Luggage 's lid .
25 When Coleman looked into this , DIA assets in Lebanon reported that much of it was being printed there , with large numbers of genuine $1 bills being bleached to provide the right paper for phony $100 bills .
26 A Western consultancy attempting to track down the money lost in this way said that much of it was being deposited in foreign banks .
27 Now both of us were being served with the same standard British Airways scrambled egg and bacon breakfast .
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