Example sentences of "[be] be [vb pp] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 2 | Now I think that the whole school meals issue , not just this , but also the way in which cost savings are being achieved at the moment in schools . |
| 3 | Is not the real problem facing many TECs the fact that their funds are being cut at a time of recession and rapidly rising unemployment ? |
| 4 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |
| 5 | If insects are being named at the rate of about 7,250 species a year and synonymized at about 1,450 a year , then these rates are within our capacity for entry into master inventories . |
| 6 | Eyebrows are being raised at the fact that the provincial government bought a number of MacMillan Bloedel shares weeks before the announcement of the plan . |
| 7 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 8 | However it is not just the press that 's causing Parker difficulties — the company 's personal computer , mid-range and networking arms are all happy to explain how they are perfectly capable of running enterprise-wide applications , and the company 's most swingeing cuts are being aimed at the Enterprise Systems division . |
| 9 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 10 | The results are being processed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , California . |
| 11 | If you are being bullied at the moment you will know how completely hurtful and upsetting it can be . |
| 12 | All those concerned need to believe that the targets are being set at a level which is achievable . |
| 13 | We ha we have to look at the environmental consequences , you stick a barrage that size across erm a large er river system you 've got to ask what happens upstream erm and of course Bristol for example is a port , how to get the ships in and out is another problem but er these are being considered at the moment and there 's quite a lot of mo money going into , into studies but no commitment yet as to actually , to actually build it . |
| 14 | Books on floppy disk are being targeted at the business market , where there are multitudes of personal computers in use . |
| 15 | Hundreds of jobs are being axed at the government 's listening station GCHQ . |
| 16 | The covers are being produced at the moment and I have asked Margaret Lockhart at CPU to get estimates for copying the contents and combining with the cover and binding so that this can be done a.s.a.p after the September Social Work Committee . |
| 17 | ‘ Warm-Hearted Weekends ’ are being offered at a selection of hotels for £22 or £26 B&B per night ( tel 021-780 4321 for further information ) . |
| 18 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 19 | His self-image and his idealism were being threatened at the anvil of reality . |
| 20 | In a permissive society where officialdom and authority were being questioned at every turn , misbehaviour and impetuousness became a badge of courage and style . |
| 21 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |
| 22 | Spanish onions bought at a wholesale market in Birmingham were being unloaded at a depot near Evesham in Worcestershire when a worker noticed a cardboard parcel stuffed between the bags . |
| 23 | According to figures released on Aug. 16 , 1990 , by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) , tropical rainforests were being destroyed at a rate of 168,000 sq km annually as compared with a rate of 94,000 sq km in 1980 . |
| 24 | Yet studiously , subtly , with no obvious exertion on Edward 's part , Laura and I were being kept at a distance . |
| 25 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 26 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 27 | At a trade exhibition in Miami in February 1991 , ‘ legcuffs ’ were being promoted at a stall registered in the name of ‘ Hiatt and Company Ltd of Birmingham ’ . |
| 28 | Although the general tenor of the Radcliffe Report cast some doubt on the strength of monetary methods of control — at least in the way they were being used at the time — monetary and fiscal instruments of control continued to be used to regulate the economy . |
| 29 | The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged . |
| 30 | During the year , pesticides whose use is banned in the US were being exported at the rate of 15 tons a day . |