Example sentences of "is be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona McRae explains : ‘ Given the size of the service , the only way forward is be statutorily funded . |
| 2 | All I have to do is be fully committed to the Lord 's work and He will show me what I can do . |
| 3 | This is being closely monitored by a committee convened by the Chief Executive . |
| 4 | In the work of most linguists today , then , speech is not overtly seen as dependent on the rules of written language , while for many the ‘ universalism ’ of some approaches is being closely questioned . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 6 | The initiative is being closely watched by state regulatory bodies in America and the EC including Britain . |
| 7 | Women 's limited space is being clearly marked out . |
| 8 | The tall ship which featured in the seventies TV series The Onedin Line is being completely refitted . |
| 9 | Because we 're actually in quite close contact with Sarouac and Malaysia , which is close to the Malaysia , you know , we do have reports that they 've actually got great big arc lights on the slopes , and that the loggers are actually working 24 hours round the clock in some areas now , and that the forest you know is being completely chopped down . |
| 10 | The auditorium of the old Empire Theatre is being completely redesigned and refurbished to provide a modern opera house , comparable to Covent Garden . |
| 11 | The hotel is being immaculately restored to ensure all its public rooms are spacious and decorated to give a generally elegant , relaxed ambience throughout . |
| 12 | Then the awesome silence is broken by the closing hymn and the congregation skail into the autumn air , all their communion cards safely gathered in , registering their presence and ( if Kirk procedure is being properly followed ) entered on the roll . |
| 13 | A ‘ tolerable risk ’ is one that society is prepared to live with in order to have certain benefits and in the confidence that the risk is being properly controlled . |
| 14 | It is not the intention here to go into great detail on the subject of nutrition , but rather to give a simple guide that may be useful to those who want to make sure that the elderly parent in their care is being properly nourished . |
| 15 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 16 | The mid-ocean ridges where oceanic crust is being continuously created are known as constructive plate margins , while the deep ocean trenches which define the sites where the oceanic crust dives down again into the mantle are known as destructive plate margins . |
| 17 | This latter , which is being increasingly adopted within the United Kingdom and in Europe more generally , acknowledges common links in the origins of healthful and unhealthful behaviours . |
| 18 | Actuaries have supervised and encouraged the growth of life insurance companies and pension funds in the past , and actuarial science is being increasingly applied in work for non-life companies and in investment modelling . |
| 19 | That is being increasingly recognised , not only by doctors but by the British Medical Association and , possibly , by some Opposition Members . |
| 20 | In so called active coeliac disease , malabsorption , and nutritional deficiences range from profound to minimal ; clinically silent coeliac disease is being increasingly recognised — for example , in family studies . |
| 21 | As such , its role in the pathogenesis of gall stone formation is being increasingly recognised . |
| 22 | Psychologically , the underclass is being increasingly isolated by the growth of a drawbridge mentality amongst those who feel they are ‘ making it ’ in Thatcher 's Britain . |
| 23 | Consciousness or ‘ life force ’ is being increasingly seen by Western thinkers as an expression of a higher , more subtle , unseen and therefore unmeasured , spiritual field of force . |
| 24 | Furthermore , commodity production is being increasingly subdivided into fragments which can be assigned to whichever part of the world can provide the most profitable combination of capital and labour . |
| 25 | The importance of a ‘ lifetime perspective ’ on ageing is being increasingly recognized . |
| 26 | There has been great progress in recent years in this quest , but its attainment is still thought to be decades away and the cost effectiveness of this research is being increasingly questioned . |
| 27 | Indeed , even the freedom to roam over the Scottish hills that we , as a nation , have always taken as a basic right , is being increasingly questioned and undermined . |
| 28 | The back arc/foreland-basin model developed as a result of the work is being increasingly used to constrain regional geotectonic models of the collisional history of the Iapetus Suture Zone , presently being investigated in collaboration with the Newfoundland Geological Survey . |
| 29 | Direct percutaneous access to the gall bladder has opened new avenues for the non-operative management of gall stone disease and is being increasingly used , particularly in elderly and high risk patients , for the treatment of acute cholecystitis , empyema and the perforated gall bladder with localised abscess formation . |
| 30 | i ) RBG is being increasingly approached to collaborate with the making of series and one-off programmes for television . |