Example sentences of "[be] be laid " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the snipers keep up the pressure while the new Romania 's foundations are being laid . |
| 2 | Sometimes eggs are being laid but disappearing , and often it 's the catfish which is cleaning up cichlid eggs as well as leftovers during the night . |
| 3 | And plans are being laid for jaunts next year to Japan , Australia , India , Pakistan , South America and the Commonwealth conference in Cyprus . |
| 4 | Some ghosts are being laid to rest . |
| 5 | An organism that produces a skeleton of stone and lives in an environment where deposits of ooze and sand are being laid down , is an ideal subject for fossilisation . |
| 6 | And now government-grant-aided industrial units are being built as the centres of our old industrial universe are being laid to waste . |
| 7 | Twenty golfers took part in the annual event and plans are being laid for a Fine Earthenware matchplay knockout competition next year . |
| 8 | Work on site has already begun , and the foundations , actual and metaphorical , of the Library 's development in the 21st century are being laid . |
| 9 | New mains are being laid . |
| 10 | The wounded were being laid out against the wall of the barn . |
| 11 | Others speculated that the foundations were being laid for a pan-European unity which might stretch from the Urals to the Atlantic . |
| 12 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |
| 13 | Whilst Croatia and Slavonia were being laid waste during the centuries-long struggle between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans , Dalmatia , although not entirely at peace , enjoyed relative prosperity and order . |
| 14 | The price of lead was falling , men were being laid off and John ( along with others ) and with as much grace as they were able to muster , had had to be prepared to accept a reduction in salary . |
| 15 | None the less , important foundations were being laid in the period immediately following the First World War . |
| 16 | In February , they were told they were being laid off as part of County Council spending cuts . |
| 17 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 18 | Unknowingly , the most potent of all sex-education programmes is taking place ; the ground is being laid for the partnerships of the next generation . |
| 19 | Commitment offering oneself to the lord in the service of the church and the world is the third and quite prominent element in the service of confirmation as we have it , and as we say in a day when emphasis is being laid on the ministry of the whole people of God there is surely value in a definite act of commitment on a definite day . |
| 20 | Blame for this fiasco is being laid at the door of everyone from teachers to examiners . |
| 21 | The Challenge starts from Currie Post Office at 8 a.m. and finishes at the City Chambers , where a cyclists ’ breakfast is being laid on . |
| 22 | In an article in The Scotsman in June 1975 , he stated : ‘ Great emphasis is being laid on the generous donations and loans from EEC funds . |
| 23 | The non-aggressive angel-like pose , is of course extremely seductive , which makes the threat of force oblique , only implied , as if a beautiful face was being laid over the ugly face of violent coercion . |
| 24 | Moreover , it had become clear from the opinion polls that the unpopularity of the new tax was being laid at the door of the government which had introduced it , rather than the local authorities who were responsible for levying and collecting it . |
| 25 | The first excavations were begun in 1907 by the architect Paul Lohest when a gas main was being laid . |
| 26 | In the very same week as Lady Mary Deverill was being laid to her final rest in the family churchyard at Brougham , across the Atlantic Ocean , in the statue packed graveyard of the Church of St Peter and St Paul , Westfield , Boston , Massachusetts , the recently bereaved Patrick Milligan entertained a very different hope from the father of the little girl in England . |
| 27 | The irony is that the matting was being laid on a fresh carpet of 3 inches of snow at the beginning of December ! |
| 28 | A heavier emphasis than ever before was being laid in the later eighteenth century , notably by monarchs themselves , on a ruler 's duties to his subjects . |
| 29 | But their creation meant that a foundation was being laid upon which the detailed and scholarly study of diplomacy could later be built . |
| 30 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |