Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Countryside Council has set aside money to continue the survey and Rhuddlan Borough is being asked to contribute £2,500 . |
| 2 | Surely the language of religion is being used to direct us towards a new kind of philosophy , for which no language of its own exists . |
| 3 | However a war like the one going on in Northern Ireland at the present is different because religion is being used as an excuse to fight and so it is being used as a negative force and not a force for the good . |
| 4 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 5 | David Clarke , the League administrator , added : ‘ The Association is being inflexible and unhelpful . ’ |
| 6 | An Alumni Association is being planned by the School of Hospitality Studies at Thames Valley University . |
| 7 | A member of the mineral trade association is being sought to ensure that there is also adequate linkage with the commercial sector . |
| 8 | THE annual meeting of the Mid-Donegall Road and Sandy Row Tenants ' Association is being held is the Sandy Row Community Centre on Tuesday September 28 . |
| 9 | The Association is being helped in putting on this presentation by L. |
| 10 | The only circumstance in which a particular entry will not be available to a properly authorised lexicographer is if that entry is being edited by another lexicographer . |
| 11 | Tackling truancy is being seen as a crucial part of the parental role in schooling , with responsibilities emerging as equal to parent rights in the Government 's approach to education . |
| 12 | For a good reason , but also for a bad one , this latest change in Iran 's persona is being looked at seriously . |
| 13 | Here , the blades are already being depressed at the rear of the disc by the stick deflection ( Fig. 4.4 ) and the tailboom is being suddenly forced upwards by striking the ground . |
| 14 | But he has become increasingly frustrated the 26-year-old forward is being overlooked by his country . |
| 15 | In the meantime , the railway 's in-service stock is being repainted in a new dark red and ivory livery , mainly by one locally based volunteer and adorned for the first time with the railway 's insignia . |
| 16 | Benefits of the new system are that orders are processed quicker , improving cashflow ; company stock figures are up to date and correct , instead of being hypothetical ; surplus stock is being used up ; a system has been created where there was no system , and the scheme has boosted customer satisfaction . |
| 17 | Since the MOD housing stock is being sold off and other houses are being renovated and improved slowly , does the hon. Gentleman accept that the situation will not get better in the foreseeable future unless far greater urgency is given to the problem of properly housing and properly treating our service personnel and those whom we consider are no longer needed in our forces ? |
| 18 | Opposition to the deal is being led by Palau 's small but powerful group of traditional women elders , who say the agreement would have a devastating social economic and political impact on Palau 's society and culture . |
| 19 | The deal is being financed by a one-for-seven rights issue to raise £5m . |
| 20 | A great deal of work is being carried out by the Health Education Authority , the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food to ensure that people have simple and effective information about healthy eating , and a great deal is being done on school meals , with the particular help of the wife of our own Secretary of State . |
| 21 | A leaflet giving advice to homeworkers on getting a fair deal is being provided by Middlesbrough district council at its town hall , library and advice centres . |
| 22 | See this new deal this new Rover deal is being signed any day now well we 're having a we 'll be having a ballot any day now . |
| 23 | But it does not take long to decide that the experiment is being conducted with skill , and that the pursuits have at least a little in common . |
| 24 | These take place in the real world and those involved do not know that an experiment is being conducted . |
| 25 | We will argue that in uses such as these perception is being evoked only inasmuch as the act of perception is the condition allowing one to assert that the infinitive event actually occurred . |
| 26 | This warehouse is being converted into a Radio station reception , just for the day . |
| 27 | An awareness club in the area of Computer Assisted Formal Reasoning is being formed . |
| 28 | We therefore hope to have wide representation from the many areas in which formal reasoning is being used and developed . |
| 29 | In so far as they are based upon analogy with the position of courts of law which are not under any such general duty , this reasoning is being undermined as the judiciary increasingly require some statement of reasons within judgments . |
| 30 | At the other end of the shopping centre , the other mural is being created by London-based David Cross , 29 , who is working from photographs to create a panel of portraits featuring local residents . |