Example sentences of "[art] [adj] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the wounded were being placed on the grass in front of the Chateau . |
| 2 | As the wounded were being unloaded from the jeeps I could see the wounds were mainly inflicted by shrapnel . |
| 3 | The wounded were being laid out against the wall of the barn . |
| 4 | Red Cross workers were banned from the military hospital where the wounded were being treated until interrogations were completed ; on Nov. 24 they were permitted to speak to the 89 wounded , but a request for private interviews with 47 other detainees was refused . |
| 5 | The small fleet of 37 's used on the Cambrian is being dispersed to Petroleum and other sectors . |
| 6 | This aspect of the arrangements — inevitably , I suppose — has produced the standard response that the rich are being protected . |
| 7 | The elderly and the unemployed are being hounded by the Government , and there is no end in sight . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , this voice of the infinite is being adopted by scientists as the most precise and perfect language for Artificial Intelligence . |
| 9 | ‘ German , Italian and French firms are picking up business while the British are being left behind , ’ he claims . |
| 10 | Everywhere the old was being sacrificed ; new roads , new railways driven . |
| 11 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 12 | You would laugh , knowing that the impossible was being demanded . |
| 13 | I accept the Liberal 's is and so 's the Conservative , but I 'd be interested to know whether anyone allows a free vote ever in the Liberal party . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 15 | Trade union leaders stated that the poor were being asked to meet the needs of those even poorer than themselves , and accused the government of ignoring the fact that a " poverty basket " of basic goods was currently costing around 250 intis ( US$301 ) , well above the lowest wage subject to the new tax . |
| 16 | well no but competition my Lord , the , the fact that the competition rule applies , I do n't think it 's straight clauses , my Lord corporate capital is now flowing into the existing is being |
| 17 | Shells crashed around the football stadium landing zone while the injured were being carried on board . |
| 18 | Groups from day centres for the elderly are being given advice on simple first aid and avoiding bogus workmen , along with tips on road and fire safety . |
| 19 | TWO residential homes which for many years have cared for young people and the elderly are being closed by the Salvation Army . |
| 20 | Peter Kemp , director of social services for Durham County Council , said yesterday he was ‘ satisfied ’ with the way the elderly were being moved in the aftermath of the county 's controversial decision to close the homes . |
| 21 | Universities , banks and the like are being singled out as potential customers , and Harari 's best guess is that ACTec should have a product within 14 to 18 months . |
| 22 | Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford . |
| 23 | It was widely assumed that motion pictures would be sexually suggestive and probably explicit , the whole tone seemed secular and irresponsible , and few doubted that children and the weak-minded were being pointed towards crime and degeneracy . |
| 24 | The fair is being sponsored by Catering Update in association with Caterer & Hotelkeeper . |
| 25 | The homeless are being asked to gather at the Commonwealth Hall . |
| 26 | The young are being drained out of the village . |
| 27 | By the end of 1965 , the first beginnings of a mass shift , and movement , in the young was being signalled . |
| 28 | The hauling ropes pass , via pulleys , on to a single winding drum in opposite directions , so that when one tank is being raised , the ropes of the other are being paid out to lower it . |
| 29 | The w the western is is shown by a single star |
| 30 | The western is being revived , reinterpreted for the 1990s . |