Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At W H Smith , where attempts are being made to disperse authority to the outer reaches of the organisation , the company is hedging its bets by devising a guide to decision-making , which gives managers and employees some indication of the limits of their newfound freedom of action . |
| 2 | Which individuals or groups are being ‘ objective ’ as a result of having writing ? |
| 3 | Ball & Stick is am impressive program and can be recommended to all interested in chemical structures . |
| 4 | Freud uses these two specific examples to suggest that psychoanalysis has shown that , in these cases , the animals or birds are being treated as substitutes for a parent , and the ambivalent feelings towards the animal reflect the feelings of the child towards the father — love and fear . |
| 5 | For example , central government uses budgets rather more indirectly to fix taxes : they form the basic public expenditure requirements , but how taxes are fixed and whether a budget surplus or deficit is being planned are questions beyond the scope of the budgets themselves . |
| 6 | Whilst these variations are important I shall focus this discussion mainly upon the more common examples , where support is being given by one person to another . |
| 7 | Phone hotel where course is being held , provisionally book accommodation . |
| 8 | I noted that Size One Free Range eggs offered by Marks & Spencer are being retailed at £2.30 per dozen , representing a difference of 190% mark-up between the producer and the supermarket . |
| 9 | ‘ This forms the basis of the RUTH programme , where research is being undertaken into surfactants , gel , microbiological methods , combined water/gas injection and foam injection . |
| 10 | It was here that attitudes and issues began emerging that were later to assume national significance and where parties were being transformed into empty shells , the eventual fate of parties at both the national and state levels . |
| 11 | South of the Border many of us consider the predicament of the Scottish salmon to be an international disgrace ; there is such world-wide concern for Atlantic salmon stocks that drift-netting for them is banned everywhere save off England , Ireland and Greenland , where action is being taken . |
| 12 | His homeward journey took him via Mainz , where he gave a concert before the elector ; Mannheim , where Figaro was being performed ; Augsburg , Munich and Linz . |
| 13 | Yeltsin said that he had lured the coup leaders out of the Kremlin , where they were protected , by challenging them to go to Foros , the Black Sea resort where Gorbachev was being held , to get a statement from Gorbachev to confirm their claim that he was unable to carry out his duties . |
| 14 | One of the conditions held that ‘ where a youth or girl was being adequately cared for by foster parents or was satisfactorily settled in life with sound views and reliable character … then the Movement might and should reduce , or in some cases discontinue , its welfare work . ’ |
| 15 | A law to require any manufacturer selling computers in Germany to take back its equipment for reuse or recycling is being drafted for next year , while governments in Denmark and Sweden are considering legislation this spring for mandating some kind of electronics scrap recycling program . |
| 16 | The situation frequently occurs where benefit is being paid under a valid unemployment claim and the claimant is offered short term temporary employment . |
| 17 | Some royal anniversary , death , separation or divorce was being made the excuse to trot out a lot of cheap old newsreel footage , but it did n't matter what was on . |
| 18 | The majority happen during DIY work or when garden tools or equipment are being used . |
| 19 | There they found a tanker and stand-pipe , also a stall where bread was being doled out . |
| 20 | Staff at Drummond House with young children or grandchildren are being invited to enter a Royal Family quiz , with the winner providing the young child to present the Queen with a welcoming posy . |
| 21 | A course on Herbarium Curation & Management is being considered ; this will include the mounting of Herbarium specimens . |
| 22 | He says it will probably be stopped by the Serbs and would do much more good where refugees are being cared for in safer territory . |
| 23 | It is essential to read the small print on the auction particulars , especially where obligations are being passed to the purchasers . |
| 24 | In TV , where films were being produced on a regular basis , ranging from the sort of imaginative documentary shorts produced for Huw Wheldon 's Monitor programme to feature-length plays , aspiring filmmakers could try out ideas , take advice from their peers and put enough films through the cameras to develop their own ideas on what they wanted to make films about , and how they would go about it . |
| 25 | The height of the ridge is apparently related to the amount of sediment being moved into the adjacent subduction zone where lithosphere is being subducted at a rate of about 65 mm a- 1 . |
| 26 | She 's hoping a pub or hotel where renovation is being carried out will solve the problem at the Arts . |
| 27 | Ultimately , a disposal licence can be revoked by a disposal authority , by issuing a notice under s.7(5) , even where conditions are being complied with , or under s.9(4) ( b ) for non-compliance with those conditions . |
| 28 | Walkers coming to and from the refuge stopped to watch , aware that some tragedy or other was being enacted . |
| 29 | There is no requirement in the Act for the police to tell the individual that the procession or assembly is being held in breach of the conditions imposed . |
| 30 | Besides planning excavations throughout the nation , then , the Conseil will now conduct any emergency works which arise , such as the preliminary excavations when a rail road or motorway is being built , or in any exceptionally difficult local cases . |