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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Islamic literature is being translated and circulated . |
| 7 | " 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Can you really be reneging on that vow , merely because a connected case is being investigated by the Inspector ? ’ |
| 12 | It estimated that more 6,000 political prisoners were being held in Turkish prisons . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Within the Commission for Restitution , which is headed by Sidorov , working groups are being set up . |
| 15 | The main reason for this is that the liabilities of the major investing institutions are are primarily nominal , although some pensions are index-linked . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In total , some £290 million of private investment is being spent or is programmed . |
| 20 | Even within existing state bodies , the workings of legal or administrative imperatives are being complicated by commercial forces , which reflect the revolution in the bureaucratic culture of British institutions over the past decade . |
| 21 | All over the country this week stately homes are being put to bed . |
| 22 | The Spanish candidacy is being supported by Turin , one of the six cities in which the six seeds will be based for the first round . |
| 23 | Safer ground had to be found and in any case with the coming of war the Progressive demands were being replaced by new constraints . |
| 24 | There are now encouraging signs that just such combined action is being taken . |
| 25 | Most of the sex in the original text survives but the producers are aware that fictional nipples are being counted by the kind of heaving bodies which consist of several men in suits . |
| 26 | A dropped light is being blamed for a moorland blaze that broke out on the Catterick Training Area , near Richmond , early yesterday . |
| 27 | While widely recognised as militarily irrelevant , the Franco-German brigades are being enlarged as a successful symbol of European cooperation . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the sealed-off stretch is being vandalised while it stands idle . |
| 29 | Erm rural industry is being encouraged in that no rural industrial commercial enterprises are being confiscated |
| 30 | Therefore , if a low potency is being used , it may be necessary to administer repeated doses to achieve the same effect as a single dose of a higher potency . |