Example sentences of "[noun sg] be be " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , de Groot 's fears , expressed in 1983 , have been reiterated by Emory in 1988 who states that in 1986 some 26023 tourists visited the islands and that the problems of environmental protection are being exacerbated by the influx of mainland Ecuadoreans seeking wealth in the tourist trade .
2 Skin protection for hands and arms is standard and of late protective goggles , visors , masks or other facial skin and eye protection are being adopted .
3 Key features to check and validate are are activities shown as starting unnecessarily early ?
4 Areas of native pinewood , birch and mixed woodland are being fenced off to exclude sheep and deer , and to assist regeneration .
5 Europe 's ancient woodlands are being felled more quickly than the tropical rain forests : about 90 per cent of the temperate forest that once covered the continent has disappeared and the remaining pockets of old growth woodland are being replaced by monoculture timber plantations .
6 Commuters with BR season tickets will be entitled to a refund for today 's journeys , and parents of school pupils who normally travel by rail are being urged to claim as well .
7 Sir , — We are all well aware that the harsh effects of the present recession are being felt by the accountancy profession to a degree that is certainly unprecedented in my memory .
8 While some aspects of education provision are being centralised in the course of reform , the management of staff is being decentralised .
9 Medicine and money from the public health budget are being unofficially transferred to the military health services and at least five regional hospitals and a number of smaller health centres have been taken over for use by the military .
10 Chairman are being er witness to er a separate resolutions ?
11 Football fans attending the Sunderland V Middlesbrough match on April 20 at Roker Park are being asked by police to arrive early as big crowds are expected due to vouchers being issued for Cup Final tickets .
12 In many cases the resources available to the schools during the period of change are being reduced .
13 Nevertheless , the moves towards positive change are being frustrated both by threats from right-wing activists , and by sectarian conflicts .
14 Appropriate measures of change are being specially developed for each element .
15 For example , skills in non-destructive testing and inspection are being applied in the nuclear , oil and gas and aerospace industries .
16 Just as the old national differences in styles of play are being gradually erased by the globalisation of football , so the cultures around spectatorship are undergoing a period intensified mixing and matching .
17 As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University .
18 Wh what what level are are capital approvals ?
19 For this reason the Eucharist and Morning Prayer are being complemented , or replaced in some places , by the family service .
20 Two separate types of award are being proposed .
21 CONSERVATIVES in the European parliament are being blamed for holding up a plan to push through reductions of the lead content in petrol throughout the EEC .
22 MEMBERS of Parliament are being canvassed by the New Statesman , the weekly left-wing magazine , to find which books have influenced them .
23 Members of Parliament are being asked about such matters as their degree of satisfaction with the quantity and quality of financial information available to them and the extent to which they feel that MPs can and should be closely involved in scrutinising the management of government , together with their ‘ unstructured ’ personal response to the problem of the control of the public administration by the House of Commons .
24 Incidentally , proposals for the establishment of a major Kent ground at Crystal Palace which could give the county a profitable metropolitan base are being enthusisastically pursued , though they are unlikely to be realised before the end of the century .
25 Families living on income support are being forced to cut back on food and do without basic items , according to a survey by the Children 's Society .
26 Course are being broken down into modules and a variety of new teaching and learning styles have to be employed .
27 In times of boom , any high rates which by necessity are being paid on one site , may by discussion with other sub-contractors in that trade result in a demand for similar increases on other sites .
28 Thus deductive mode explanations which have a displaying function are being used to demonstrate knowledge about knowledge .
29 The laws of physics are being obeyed within every cell of the muscles .
30 The plan has received widespread international support and projects of a similar kind are being instigated in Australia , the United States and throughout Europe .
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