Example sentences of "[being] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they point out that the applications being checked are a tiny percentage of the 340,000 dealt with this year . |
| 2 | Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 3 | Among the projects currently being undertaken are : |
| 4 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 5 | At present being excavated are two houses in the centre of the settlement . |
| 6 | Being excavated are the seventeenth-century summer palace of Alexis Michailovich , father of Czar Peter the Great , and a medieval site nearby the Kremlin . |
| 7 | When applications being developed are an integrated part of a total system , these techniques prove inadequate . |
| 8 | Specific topics being addressed are those which have been suggested as a possible legacy of the dispute , such as irreconcilable bitterness between former working and former striking miners and their families in a ‘ split ’ community ; permanent disaffection from the police and from the institutions of legal and political authority as a whole as a result of experiences within striking communities ; and changing family relationships as a result of the mobilization of women during the dispute . |
| 9 | Previous studies have shown that only 2% ( 386/17000 ) of health care staff being vaccinated were naturally immune to hepatitis B , a figure lower than that found in our population — 5.5% ( 1186/21389 ) — indicating that perhaps most of those being vaccinated are either ‘ low risk staff ’ or new entrants to the profession . |
| 10 | CPRW has no doubt that in this particular instance a decision to provide planning consent would be quite disastrous , whereas a rejection would strengthen the value of National Park designation at a time when development pressures of the kind being considered are on the increase . |
| 11 | What you need to do is to be able to provide a private sector a certain level of certainty , that the concession will be er granted long enough so that one can recover both your costs an=and certainly be able to make a profit and so er to the extent that the franchises that are being considered are short natured , seven years , er that becomes rather disadvantageous and unattractive er concessions of twenty and thirty and forty years , and and really thirty thirty to forty year period er do make it in fact make it very attractive for private sector involvement . |
| 12 | Among ideas being considered are landscaping , tree planting , screening of trackside eyesores and a big clean-up campaign . |
| 13 | Other innovations being considered are performance-related fees , which are common in the US , and exit charges in place of initial fees . |
| 14 | They 're being educated are n't they ? |
| 15 | The lorries drive off across Europe and with the amount of traffic there is the chances of them being caught are pretty minimal . |
| 16 | Second , the idea of self help obscures the fact that what is being sought are facilities on the cheap , incorporating the unpaid labour c.f mothers themselves … |
| 17 | Among staff being sought are ‘ recruitment teams ’ who will flood industrial and commercial locations , signing-up white collar workers for membership , quickly building up a large customer base in the vital pre-Christmas trading period . |
| 18 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 19 | Laing is convinced that businesses which are run by people who have little understanding of the products being made are ultimately doomed to failure . |
| 20 | The consequences of an administration order being made are as follows : |
| 21 | The garments being made are on order from stores such as C&A , Top Shop , and Wallace 's . |
| 22 | Lawyers are already claiming there is no real precedent , because the Japanese being compensated are those who personally experienced internment , whereas no US black can claim direct and personal damage by ‘ the peculiar institution ’ . |
| 23 | It is also important that the areas where the varnish is being applied are dust-free and that you are not wearing clothes which will shed dust or fibres on to the surface . |
| 24 | An unsuccessful search terminates when the end points of the section of the list being searched are in fact next to each other , and neither matches the searched-for item . |
| 25 | Like all summaries , this average d only makes sense if the coefficients being averaged are broadly similar ; we shall discuss what to do if they are not in section 13.6 . |
| 26 | The two main types being manufactured are flakes and granules . |
| 27 | You 're worried about your privacy being invaded are n't you ? |
| 28 | If these are disregarded by those who employ or are involved with carers , the people being tended are made more vulnerable to exploitation or even abuse . |
| 29 | In the province , as firms scramble to win public sector contracts , the average tenders being offered are lagging far behind the actual cost of construction . |
| 30 | In the province , as firms scramble to win public sector contracts , the average tenders being offered are lagging far behind the actual cost of construction . |