Example sentences of "[num] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the West African republic of Liberia where eighty five per cent of the population have been displaced , children , some as young as eight are being placed in secure compounds to prevent them from going back to fight for the waring factions . |
| 2 | ( An association representing the mothers of Soviet prisoners claimed that some 300 were being held , but mujaheddin sources put the number at only 75 to 80 . ) |
| 3 | A mid-range RS/6000 which is expected to follow Vulcan in April 1993 is being touted as Trailblazer . |
| 4 | In any event , it was clear , when the Education ( Corporal Punishment ) Bill 1985 was being considered by Parliament following the ruling in Campbell and Cosans , that to give parents a choice over whether or not their children should receive corporal punishment was justifiable in principle but practically unworkable . |
| 5 | the design was not strong enough to resist the forces exerted while Span 5–6 was being cantilevered out from Pier 6 |
| 6 | Plans for 1991 are being made for a reunion on a Saturday as near to the middle of June as possible . |
| 7 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |
| 8 | Two carriers were cleared of infection , one discharged and six are being treated . |
| 9 | 233 were being formulated . |
| 10 | A record number of parents were getting aid through scholarships and more than 100 were being helped under the Government 's assisted places scheme . |
| 11 | The predominant colour for spring/summer 1991 is being , cropping up on the catwalk in shift dresses , shorts and wrap-around sarong-style skirts . |
| 12 | In each area , one general SVQ at level II and one at level III is being introduced . |
| 13 | There are already signs that DVI is being seen as a delivery medium in itself rather than just a process . |
| 14 | They range I mean er the the er the er Prussian Austro-Prussian war of eighteen sixty six is is referred to as what the six weeks war and and erm the five , five weeks of that or or or whatever were were involved in peace negotiations . |
| 15 | Motion two four six is being accepted . |
| 16 | One of them was John Stuart Mill who feared , however , that the reform of them which was taking place in the 1840s was being taken as an affair of humanity only , not of justice . |
| 17 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 18 | Mr. Harris : Given the common problems faced by the tourist industry in Wales and the more remote parts of England such as Cornwall , will my right Hon. Friend tell me why on earth section 4 grants under the Development of Tourism Act 1969 are being suspended in England whereas , as he says , they are being tripled in Wales ? |
| 19 | Trainers by the dozen are being forced to sell their stables . |
| 20 | All three were being nursed on water-beds . |
| 21 | Lotus 1-2-3 is being run on a large local area network at Stoy Hayward 's Baker Street offices . |
| 22 | A PRINT DEPICTING a pair of 229 Squadron Hurricanes flying low over a locomotive pulling passenger carriages to the Ashford to Redhill railway line in the Autumn of 1940 is being auctioned by forms of tender to raise funds for the RAF Benevolent Fund . |
| 23 | One of the best loved British sports cars of the sixties and seventies is being revived . |
| 24 | One of the best loved British sports cars of the sixties and seventies is being revived . |
| 25 | The Regional Railways loco-hauled trains in 1992 seem likely to be continued with Class 31 's being used - there are 3 Machynlleth drivers trained on them . |
| 26 | A good example of the former occurred during the passage of the British submarine H.50 , which in 1941 was being escorted by the destroyer Worcester off the north Norfolk coast in waters where German E-boats often used to attack . |
| 27 | The local crab industry is lucrative and expanding , as are the dolphin kills , and an estimated several thousand are being harpooned or shot each year . |
| 28 | Something has to be done in Blackbird Leys because these youngsters of sixteen are being allowed to get away with it . |
| 29 | By the end of November over 5,000 people were estimated to have left Haiti , of whom some 3,500 were being held aboard United States vessels or at US bases , and over 1,000 were being cared for by the Cuban authorities . |
| 30 | Urban social movements in the 1960s and 1970s were being organised around demands for such provision , clearly implying that facilities such as decent housing and welfare resources benefit the working class as well as capital . |