Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 2 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
| 3 | Another case in 1883 revealed that a marque of Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardine was being sold , but with the insertion of an extra ‘ o ’ in the label , reading ‘ Veuve Cliocquot-Ponsardin' and going for a ridiculously low price . |
| 4 | They are Tony Bevan , William MacIlraith , Robert Mason , Hughie O'Donoghue , Terry Setch , whose powerful exhibition of the flotsam of Cardiff Bay is being held at the Camden Arts Centre ( to 5 July ) , and Victor Willing . |
| 5 | The cutting edge of computer technology is being used by a number of artists worldwide to create new worlds or virtual reality ( VR ) in the new computer art jargon . |
| 6 | At the back of a huge lorry , free samples of Bahlsen biscuits are being dispensed . |
| 7 | A series of case studies are being carried out in companies chosen for their different markets , technologies , size and approach to harmonisation . |
| 8 | The molecular properties of prostate cancer are being intensively investigated . |
| 9 | Leyhill prison on the Gloucestershire Avon border is as far from the popular conception of a jail as you can get.Modern buildings cluster around borders boasting blooms that many public parks would be hard pressed to match.Leyhill is an open prison … the last port of call for inmates nearing the end of their sentences.A hundred prisoners work on the nearly forty acres of lawns , borders and market gardens.Their skills won them a silver medal at Chelsea for this display of garden design.And at Leyhill , they 've created a spectacular show … with drifts of brightly coloured pelargoniums competing for attention with giant cannas … and a fine show of roses.New borders are being created all the time … giving the prisoners an opportunity to express themselves and learn techniques that could help them go straight when they 're released : |
| 10 | THE erection of 12 houses on land used as an orchard in the centre of Bettws Cedewain is being opposed by a Montgomery planning inspection panel . |
| 11 | Thus the entire region of south-west Scotland is being relegated to the status of an English sub-county like Rutland or Westmorland . |
| 12 | A successful programme of infill drilling is being conducted in the older fields . |
| 13 | In the project , a number of data sources are being utilised ; in particular , recently available data from the 1981 Census of Population and the 1981 British Rail Origin-Destination Survey are being compared with earlier data to obtain a picture of recent trends . |
| 14 | Even if one does not believe in the principle of intellectual conservation of quantity , the same amount of study time is being poured into different shaped vessels , one tall and narrow , the other flat and wide . |
| 15 | At present a number of research projects are being undertaken within the school including the editing of the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection , a collection of 3,000 texts and tunes of traditional songs from North-East Scotland . |
| 16 | Two new pieces of frontier work are being pioneered . |
| 17 | The removal of frontier controls is being held up by failure to harmonise VAT and excise duties . |
| 18 | So it 's fitting that his collection of fishing tackle is being auctioned off in the town tomorrow . |
| 19 | The Court of Session action is being raised by the lord provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff-Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson , in an attempt to reassert their rights as co-trustees of the Torrie Collection . |
| 20 | He declined , however , to specify what type of vehicle production was being considered and said the discussions were still at a preliminary stage . |
| 21 | On April 21 the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation confirmed that 8,000,000 litres of petroleum products were being imported daily . |
| 22 | A World of Work centre is being built , with strong links to local businesses , which provide vocational training . |
| 23 | The most interesting of these cases is Short v. Treasury Commissioners where the whole of the shares of Short Bros. were being acquired by the Treasury under a Defence Regulation which provided for payment of their value ‘ as between a willing buyer and a willing seller . ’ |
| 24 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 25 | The old er the old kind of chestnut question is was it a success or a failure ? |
| 26 | A new wave of job losses is being announced by an engineering company . |
| 27 | A piece of motoring history is being reduced to rubble with the demolition of one of Britain 's oldest and most successful car plants . |
| 28 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 29 | As well , group styles of classroom management are being seen as a means of freeing teacher-time to engage in the close observation and recording of individual development which the assessment procedures require . |
| 30 | ONE OF a new generation of Aids drugs is being tested on patients . |