Example sentences of "[am/are] constantly [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 But the surface waters are constantly disturbed by winds .
2 Any repairs or replacements or renewals of furnishings are noted on the cards , and they are constantly referred to by the housekeeping and maintenance departments , whose responsibility it is to see that the room is maintained to the required standard .
3 ‘ The government clearly counts on the pleasure and prestige the jobs afford to keep them filled at fairly low cost , but this wo n't help if the best scholars are constantly tempted to go abroad ’ , says Kauffmann , ‘ and now , new appointments or those who change jobs by moving or by promotion no longer have the same job security ’ .
4 Some water-formed features therefore , including the sand-bars that may form parallel with a shore-line with a salt-marsh behind , are constantly formed , destroyed and re-formed .
5 ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases .
6 When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply .
7 Accordingly , women may abandon them and try to fit into institutional patterns which make no sense to them but which they are constantly assured are superior .
8 The only have four phone lines , and so are constantly engaged .
9 We can not reach an understanding of these divisions if we are constantly denied the alternative perspectives .
10 Both the level of available resources and their deployment are constantly adjusted as necessary to counter the foreseeable threat .
11 Although they are constantly condemned as a novelty , ‘ Cud 's ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ shows a new found musical awareness .
12 Although they are constantly condemned as a novelty , ‘ Cud 's ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ shows a new found musical awareness .
13 Discrimination learning is especially important for nursing practice as nurses are constantly faced with distinguishing between one set of conditions and another in the form of signs and symptoms , in the form of differences in kinds of equipment and their use , and in the form of differences in patients ' problems and needs .
14 We are constantly faced with such hidden confusions in huge quantities .
15 Boiling over is now a thing of the past , dye bath levels are constantly monitored and an alarm is activated if any problems arise .
16 Staff are well trained and stores are constantly monitored by environmental health officers .
17 The reality has been that our core funding , like that of so many other bodies , has been progressively reduced , by City Hall in our case , and we are constantly threatened with having our funding removed entirely , the premise being that BAT will pick up the bill .
18 We are sworn to protect the Führer and yet are constantly threatened by this conspiracy of generals . ’
19 The court 's powers in regard to the protection and custody of children are constantly revised by Parliament , as for example in the substantial Family Law Act 1986 and the Children Act 1989 .
20 Vocabulary and structures are constantly revised throughout the course to reinforce the language learning process and to ensure that children who join the class late do not find themselves struggling .
21 Richard Harris and Gene Hackman have been in Westerns before but never one as good as this ( indeed , Harris ' character 's inflation of his own pompous myth relates to the sham of his A Man Called Horse ) , which is a key to their characterisations and the way they are constantly stacked up against Eastwood .
22 ‘ It 's a pity we do n't ever stay here long — we are constantly sent out on missions .
23 All activities are constantly assessed and evaluated by staff .
24 ’ Return to sender ’ clauses are constantly cited by the Government to try to allay fears .
25 As for the people , they are constantly challenged by the need for eternal vigilance and by such sentiments as those of Edmund Burke in his speech on arrival at Bristol on 13 October 1774 :
26 The events of his life are constantly incorporated into this spiel .
27 The danger of this approach is that it may give the erroneous impression that companies are constantly embroiled in internecine strife , and that investors and creditors are habitually maltreated by dishonest or incompetent company controllers .
28 The curriculum is not seen in terms of constant amelioration of handicapping conditions , but rather in terms of making up for deficiencies which are constantly imputed to the child .
29 As to water every river is dried up , and men are constantly employed in sucking wells .
30 We never offer recording contracts as prizes , although we are constantly asked to do so .
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