Example sentences of "be [being] [vb pp] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can confirm that 486 vehicles for new Networker trains are being manufactured at a total cost of £365 million and that the first of those trains will come into service on my hon. Friend 's line in May this year . |
| 2 | As mental health charity MIND produced a report criticising ‘ continued over-reliance on hospital treatment ’ , King said : ‘ It looks as if hospitals are being replaced at a reasonable pace . ’ |
| 3 | The rainforests are being destroyed at a frightening rate , by burning , logging , flooding , mining and pollution . |
| 4 | The expectation of an open offer and clawback from shareholders may be strong where the new shares being issued represent a significant proportion of the existing issued shares of the bidder or are being offered at a significant discount to their current market price . |
| 5 | SIX YEARS ago San Diego 's police were being killed at a higher rate than the police in any other big American city . |
| 6 | Larger families around us were being rehoused at a steady rate , but we were doomed to wait for ever . |
| 7 | ( a ) Middle East Economic Survey ( MEES ) , indicating the terms on which both freight and insurance were being negotiated at a particular stage of the war , described the freight element as follows : ‘ Kharg to Europe : W70-80 . |
| 8 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 9 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 10 | A CHANCE to escape to the 19th century is being offered at a special day school in Cleveland on Saturday . |
| 11 | In order to have a sense of how the different codes are used in interactions , it is necessary for the linguist to be quite clear about which code is being used at a particular time . |
| 12 | Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day . |
| 13 | In the distance he could hear the requiem mass that was being piped at a discreet volume throughout the store . |