Example sentences of "[n mass] are [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheep are being introduced on the coastal slopes around Shrinkle Haven Youth Hostel to stop encroaching scrub and bracken further smothering the traditional vegetation of the area and damaging feeding grounds for coastal birds . |
| 2 | The owners of Shetland 's 500,000 sheep are being urged to switch to more expensive , more environmentally-friendly products . |
| 3 | Page 30 Anglo sell-off : Eight businesses worth £150m are being sold by Anglo United following its takeover of Coalite . |
| 4 | Apart from malarial mosquitoes , a surprising number of aircraft are being grounded because of the presence of rats and mice on board . |
| 5 | Jan. 27 Iran announces that 12 Iraqi aircraft are being held . |
| 6 | Jan. 27 Iran announces that 12 Iraqi aircraft are being held . |
| 7 | It is , however , not surprising that this is the case since the same data are being used to derive both the laterality index and the total accuracy score . |
| 8 | Data are being gathered from published sources and from interviews with officials , private insurers and commercial bankers . |
| 9 | The main data are being collected through the observation of incidents , interviews with participants , bystanders and the general public and analysis of media coverage . |
| 10 | The Baseline Data sets are being processed to create data bases at the farm , family and individual levels ; core data are being merged to enable comparative analysis across Europe ; derived variables are being constructed , the Statistical aspects are being studies . |
| 11 | Theory is subsequent to the collection of data or facts about the world , even when the data are being used to test theoretically derived hypotheses . |
| 12 | The need for data is not restricted to this start-up period , for new data are being generated continuously as roads and towns are built , and as the population changes both in size and constitution ( due to births , deaths and disease ) and spatial location ( due to migration ) . |
| 13 | Patient numbers and mortality fail to take into account the influences of different demographic groups or diagnoses and so these simple data are being abandoned for more complex assessments that generate an overall score and tell us something about how ill the patient is . |
| 14 | In the commercial and the public sector , and even on a more private level astonishing amounts of data are being created as word processed documents , some of which are printed out , but others such as email are sent over the wires and viewed only on screen by the recipient or data user . |
| 15 | Paper documentation also leads to delays in servicing users especially when the data are being delivered over the network or online , but documentation must be photocopied and sent by post . |
| 16 | Its chief task is to ensure that the charter and its offspring are being implemented by other departments . |
| 17 | ‘ The Hidden Folk are being sought out once again , and driven from the city . ’ |
| 18 | Furthermore , nationalism in all its many forms , is the continuing , and largely unconscious , search for personal identity in societies where relations of blood and kin are being lost . |
| 19 | He says seventy to seventy five percent are being directed towards the private sector so why . |
| 20 | PREVIOUSLY uncatchable fish are being suckered into grabbing baits and flies attached to a new ‘ invisible ’ line . |
| 21 | A shoal of fish jumps out of the sea , a sight to quicken the heart as Tor says this often happens when the fish are being chased by orca . |
| 22 | I occasionally use a quiver-tip on stillwaters , but it is an indicator I find most valuable on rivers , except at those times when the fish are being very finicky , when I will touch-leger . |
| 23 | Ask the shopkeeper which conditions the fish are being kept in , before you buy them , as they may need adjusting a little more slowly . |
| 24 | Many species of tropical freshwater , marine and coldwater fish are being successfully bred by fishkeepers all over the world . |
| 25 | If you go immediately to Grasmere — unless other fish are being fried , but your letters are too vague for me to judge — ( what are you doing ? ) — then I think you could do well . |
| 26 | At Lough Carra , most of the fish are being taken on the dap , but wetfly was also producing some sport for Jim Stafford , who landed a nice brace at 4lb 8ozs . |
| 27 | I fish such a bait on a 14 hook , or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky . |
| 28 | Four Louis XVI wall-lights valued at £3,000 are being sold from the French-style drawing room along with the £5,000 giltwood suite and 1850 card tables . |
| 29 | During ejaculation , the sperm deposited in the woman will , provided the man is fertile ( i.e. that sperm are being produced ) and that contraceptive measures are not taken , proceed on their way to the uterus and fallopian tubes . |
| 30 | The first year of life is enormously dangerous in countries where the statistics are being collected . |