Example sentences of "are [be] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated . |
| 2 | The implication must be that a lot of bids are being planned but never see the light of day . |
| 3 | It is in the very nature of democratic politics that policy change must be rationalised in a vocabulary that both appeals to popular understandings of the social problems that are being tackled and yet does not disturb certain common sense understandings of the workings of the economic system . |
| 4 | By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community . |
| 5 | Elderly residents are being downgraded and sometimes have to share rooms , and that situation will get worse . |