Example sentences of "are [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisations that want to keep the law are effectively being invited to watch their competitors steal their trade , which is not on . |
| 2 | The structure of the privatisation is such that institutions are effectively being left with no say in how they spend the funds they are supposed to manage on behalf of their clients . |
| 3 | These are mostly being written with the aid of Egeria , a graphical user interface editor which cuts what would be a 200,000 line Motif application program down to 10,000 lines . |
| 4 | Ageing municipal domestic waste incinerators are a far greater source of dioxins ( and are slowly being upgraded ) ; domestic fires and unleaded petrol are the next biggest sources . |
| 5 | MIPS ' operations meanwhile , are slowly being dismantled by SGI : US reports suggest that 450 of the 685 jobs at MIPS are to go , although there are plans to redeploy at least 250 of those lost at other SGI sites . |
| 6 | The irony is that this is at a time when such diseases are slowly being reduced in Britain . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The hill we are on is called Loving Alto . |
| 8 | What we are constantly being fed with is that unemployment figures have been falling , that a successful economic miracle has taken place , that unemployment is a thing of the past . |
| 9 | Huge mounds of raw flintstones , imported from Kent and Norfolk , are constantly being fed into the giant automatic milling unit for calcination and grinding . |
| 10 | Although these four authors address themselves to rather different problems , and do not appear to agree on a number of issues , their combined views on the importance of soil erosion are more or less consistent , and quite clear — its importance is exaggerated , agricultural technology initiated by both officials and farmers can respond satisfactorily , and the resources at disposal are massive and are constantly being created by technology itself . |
| 11 | New offences are constantly being created and the police point out that we are also actually reporting more crimes . |
| 12 | Unlike pop socio-biology , which appeals to the gene as the ultimate and fundamental causal factor in human evolution and behaviour , innate sociality supposes a predisposition in human beings towards the continual absorption of existing meanings and the creation of new meanings in local universes of thought that are constantly being discovered , destroyed , and negotiated anew in the process of social interaction . |
| 13 | The plates are not permanent : they are constantly being replenished by liquid rock gushing up from the Earth 's mantle ( the subsurface layer ) at the long submarine mountain ranges known as the mid-ocean ridges . |
| 14 | Faxes are constantly being sent to dealers , accountants and solicitors across the country offering investment prospects in anything from : |
| 15 | With hindsight , I would recommend only one breeding pair to a tank , or the other fish are constantly being chased away from one nest or another . |
| 16 | Status signals are constantly being exchanged between us through what we see and hear . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , personal identity and worth ( and hence ‘ moral careers ’ ) are constantly being assessed and judged in this immediate social context . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | New features are constantly being asked for and added ; fractional leading , better hyphenation routines , faster transmission from remote sites , etc . |
| 20 | New discoveries are constantly being made through a return to original sources . |
| 21 | For both businesses and individuals with financial interests abroad , particularly where payments are constantly being made or received , a foreign currency account is essential . |
| 22 | In terms of manpower all three types of decision are constantly being made at all levels of the nursing organisation . |
| 23 | As the project will last for so many years , temporary improvements are constantly being made to the estate . |
| 24 | Are they aware that the layouts produced by ZZAP ! are constantly being ripped off and copied by at least 40% of all other mag 's on the shelves ? ! |
| 25 | It would be ridiculous to suggest that black kids who are constantly being geared up by teachers to thrust themselves into sports , do not , at some stage , recognize that there exists a manipulative element : they feel they are regarded as naturally gifted sportsmen ( see Vince Hilaire 's opening quotation ) , but without an abundance of intellectual equipment , who are used for the purposes of bringing prestige to both the individual teacher and the school . |
| 26 | However , both are constantly being disturbed by blackbirds . |
| 27 | However , the goal line may be unclear and the rules of the game are constantly being revised . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It would be unwise to come to any firm conclusion , remembering that the majority of those we know about are amongst the sandhills which are constantly being eroded by the winds which expose them , that the eastern part of the island down to Kildalton is largely deer forest which is rarely visited except by stalkers , that there are probably many more cists to be discovered . |