Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the real point seems to be that the risk of an uninformed auditor 's being misled after a change imposes a greater cost than the benefit ( unquantified and intangible ) that a compulsory change would provide . |
| 2 | When strong opinions are being expressed , ask for reasons . |
| 3 | It would have been wrong to propose that subsidized admission to such schools should he offered to very bright pupils , at the same time that comprehension was being commended ( sometimes forcefully so ) to grammar schools . |
| 4 | Other methods of dating based on similar principles of measuring the balance between decaying and stable isotopes are being developed , arid these may well become as important as radiocarbon dating . |
| 5 | Er my reservations about the figures the Liberal Democrats put in , I think they will however , I think it is erm , the idea , I do get the idea that money is being thrown at the problem . |
| 6 | in this budget that we 've just passed and what we want to make sure is how that money is being spent . |
| 7 | It was n't that money was being stolen or sneaked — everything was down on paper . |
| 8 | Bill Koch became acutely embarrassed that money was being donated to this party in his name , yet he had little cash of his own . |
| 9 | Case studies of locational change in selected producer services are being carried out , and the implications of the results for urban and regional policies are being considered . |
| 10 | Little progress is being made with this problem and it is feared that momentum may be lost by those opposing the scheme , especially over the Christmas and New Year periods . |
| 11 | The nuclear-free zone proposal was reportedly in the annual ASEAN discussions in 1986 , and Soviet spokesmen underlined press reports at the close of the following annual ASEAN Conference in June 1987 that specific plans were being worked out to set up such a zone which would be examined at a summit level meeting of the ASEAN states in Manila in December . |
| 12 | Islamic literature is being translated and circulated . |
| 13 | " A woman worker " wrote to the Despatch in late August , claiming that " persistent attempts are being made by the men to work on the motives of selfishness and self-interest of the women " . |
| 14 | The commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Yugoslavia , Gen Satish Nambiar , also appealed on television to all parties to lay down their weapons , adding that a political settlement was being considered . |
| 15 | In this case , it seems that Creole is being used , perhaps with its " jocular " symbolic value , to comment on the baby and its " cute " activities . |
| 16 | The publication of the tape is likely to cause further concern to Diana who has already told friends that she believed that at least some of her private calls were being monitored and recorded . |
| 17 | This is done as soon as some function is declared ( the simplest necessary declaration is that some solid entities are being entered ) and some volume exists , ie geometric entities that give more than a single coordinate value in each orthogonal direction . |
| 18 | To those concerned about political stagnation , about the need for a change , he suggested , with some effectiveness , that it was enough that change was being wrought in his own party . |
| 19 | Can you really be reneging on that vow , merely because a connected case is being investigated by the Inspector ? ’ |
| 20 | It estimated that more 6,000 political prisoners were being held in Turkish prisons . |
| 21 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 22 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 23 | Mr Ponting 's case for sending the documents was that he felt that they showed that Parliament was being misled and misinformed about the Belgrano affair . |
| 24 | Within the Commission for Restitution , which is headed by Sidorov , working groups are being set up . |
| 25 | The main reason for this is that the liabilities of the major investing institutions are are primarily nominal , although some pensions are index-linked . |
| 26 | Either that Sardinian 's being there was coincidence or it was n't — and , for goodness ' sake , if it was n't — |
| 27 | CONSERVATIVES in the European parliament are being blamed for holding up a plan to push through reductions of the lead content in petrol throughout the EEC . |
| 28 | In a series of private discussions with congressmen on Capitol Hill , Mr Major was asked only once directly about Ulster and replied that progress was being made in getting people round the table for negotiations . |
| 29 | A strong case is being made for expanding the scope of selective harmonisation of essential requirements to ensure that minimum standards apply in these areas . |
| 30 | Political progress was being made in establishing the Federation of South Arabia to give the Arab tribes around Aden enough political cohesion to resist the ambitions of the Imam of the Yemen and his Egyptian backers . |