Example sentences of "be [adv] [be] [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | New offences are constantly being created and the police point out that we are also actually reporting more crimes . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , personal identity and worth ( and hence ‘ moral careers ’ ) are constantly being assessed and judged in this immediate social context . |
| 3 | This promising approach to pest control is in its infancy , but varieties that are less attractive to certain pests are constantly being developed and tested . |
| 4 | Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined . |
| 5 | Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly . |
| 6 | With modern methods of communication throughout the world , our perceptions are constantly being enlarged and our attitudes and values are shifting . |
| 7 | I just wonder erm , if this could n't be helped if you like , by increasing them rather than decreasing them , taking over perhaps some of the , not absolutely statutory , but some of the extra use of staff , and I do n't know if it 's possible , but at the moment I worry because some of the homes are only being inspected and visited by members anyway . |
| 8 | Records of building maintenance are already being created and will be available for potential users . |
| 9 | Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole . |
| 10 | Theories developed for the ASB by a team headed by the Institute 's director of research , Professor John Arnold ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June 1992 , p 35 ) , are already being tested and the ASB is hoping to issue a discussion or exposure draft within six months . |
| 11 | We are now more aware of those problems , and there are possibilities under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 — some of which are already being followed and others which have yet to be taken up — to deal with past laxity . |
| 12 | These powerful new networks , usually referred to as broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks ( ISDNs ) are already being established and may soon transform the global distribution of electronic information . |
| 13 | The 1,000 places which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the week before last are already being found and offered by British industry and British institutions . |
| 14 | Small quantities are already being sampled and volume production starts to ramp in January . |
| 15 | The use of tape recordings and videos adds further elaborations of form and function which are just being recognised and incorporated into this traditional complex of language use . |
| 16 | A number of men were employed to do up the houses one by one — they 're slowly being modernised and decorated . |
| 17 | But in the wings of the world 's first ‘ Earth Summit ’ , environmentalists are still being harassed and killed by police , and street children , abused and tortured . |
| 18 | Some of the world 's rarest cetaceans , such as the narwhal , beluga , and harbour porpoise , are still being hunted and killed in the high latitudes of the Arctic . |
| 19 | This will also make H two consistent with the existing greenbelt development control policies E nine and E ten of the approved county structure plan which are still being retained and also the proposed open countryside policy E E two , all of which use the qualification , normally . |
| 20 | Some are still being bought and sold and , according to Charly Herscovici , prices have been rising slowly since 1967 , the year Magritte died . |
| 21 | Different blockades are still being organised and will be until the Penan 's rights are recognised . |
| 22 | Croatian country manager Huw Jenkins attested that contracts are still being signed and cash is still being paid , while moves towards privatisation are freeing up budgets that were previously frozen . |
| 23 | Any advantages which accrue to taxpayers as a result of complying with income tax obligations are also being examined and where possible quantified . |
| 24 | Numerous other predators and pathogens ( viruses , bacteria , protozoa , fungi and nematodes ) are also being investigated and the following are ready for evaluation in the field : Poecilia reticula and Aplocheilus spp. , fish that feed on mosquito larvae ; Bocillus sphaericus , a spore-forming bacterium that attacks mosquitoes ; Culicinomyces clavosporus , a fungus that kills mosquitoes ; and Romano- mermis culicivorax , a nematode worm that inhabits and kills mosquito larvae . |
| 25 | Libraries are also being targeted and static displays are being used to highlight road safety . |
| 26 | But more adults are now being cautioned and for more serious crime . |
| 27 | Robotic aids which perform like this are now being developed and are already being used under laboratory conditions in Bristol . |
| 28 | Those proposals are now being developed and the United Kingdom has been in the forefront of police co-operation in Europe to combat the growing evil of international crime . |
| 29 | MAry Cobb FHCIMA , has played the leading role in establishing systems which are now being tested and , it is hoped , adopted during the course of 1993 . |
| 30 | Applications for the 1992 award are now being accepted and can be made through only one academic institution . |