Example sentences of "and [noun] be under way " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a drafting meeting yesterday and discussions are under way in a Council of Ministers working group and various committees of the European Parliament . |
| 2 | Thomas Cook 's UK travel agency network had its best year ever last year and plans are under way to increase the current branch network of 340 by at least another 100 over the next two years . |
| 3 | ICE also own a number of properties in nearby Nelson Street and plans are under way to improve those , possibly housing the London Road Development Association which has been created to oversee the regeneration of the nearby shopping area . |
| 4 | And research is under way to evaluate greater involvement of the private sector in the financing , design , building and operation of national roads . |
| 5 | The move is part of a continuing programme to improve nursery provision throughout the county six new nursery units have opened , and work is under way on another eight due to open in September . |
| 6 | Work was about to start on a new street through to Clerkenwell Green and excavations were under way to raise the level of the road by several feet . |
| 7 | By the end of the year Oman had raised its production close to capacity ( 700,000 barrels per day ) and efforts were under way to boost production capability . |
| 8 | Already , with the agreement of Lead Bodies , SVQs composed of National Certificate Modules have been accredited in the Agriculture , Forestry , Floristry , Hairdressing , and Administrative/Business/Clerical areas and developments are under way in Caring . |
| 9 | Understanding how animal venoms and toxins work may one day help to cure human diseases , and experimentation is under way . |
| 10 | The scheme will be self-financing , the APA hopes , and negotiations are under way with a developer and a housing association . |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc implementation of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today : the paper quoted Sun president Scott McNealy as saying ‘ NT needs to be ported to Sparc — if they [ Microsoft ] do n't do it , they are missing the boat ’ ; despite the denials , observers hint darkly that some sort of effort involving Sparc and Microsoft is under way , and will come to the surface over the next few months . |
| 12 | The Berkshire Rally is now well established and preparations are under way for the next one in March . |