Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that pre-Martin Levins are being rediscovered , as are their players ( Folk Roots ' top 30 features two re-released CDs of the Incredible String Band 's early albums ) , Goliaths are presently pushing a £500 asking price and will certainly appreciate as the woods from which they were crafted disappear and their distinct acoustic tone becomes more eagerly sought by the Washburn weary and the Takamine troubadours . |
| 2 | When the measures to privatise British Telecom were being debated in the House , Opposition Members said that the public telephone box was threatened with extinction . |
| 3 | After chalking up debts of ¥500 billion ( $3.5 billion ) , Tokyo-based EIE is being rescued by five large Japanese banks . |
| 4 | But the old London was being destroyed around him , and on 29 December 1940 , incendiary bombs set the City ablaze : life was peculiar now , he told Mary Hutchinson five days later , and in the preface to an anthology published in the following year , he discussed the problems of a " changing and bewildered world " . |
| 5 | At the moment , my new machine is being assembled and my old Hyundai is being dismantled for recyclable parts . |
| 6 | Allied Dunbar is being brave-faced : ‘ With 200 life companies , there is a lot of competition , and opportunity , ’ a spokesman says . |
| 7 | In the late fifteenth century the new centre of power and culture in a unified Russia was being established in Moscow . |
| 8 | President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia said on Jan. 26 that " the destruction and devastation to which fraternal Iraq is being subjected has reached an intolerable level " . |
| 9 | For the whole of central Beirut was being gradually reclaimed by nature , as overgrown as the political system which had so regularly betrayed Lebanon . |
| 10 | It was difficult to know how serious Barbara was being ; nonetheless Matthew was aware that things change , that boundaries could be moved , that the wives of chairmen might not always be sacrosanct . |
| 11 | Choppy Spencer is are you prepared to accept the conclusion that some people might be suggesting right now that this whole stunt of opting out is a political fumble ? |
| 12 | He made counter-accusations that 42,000 Bosnian Serbs were being held as detainees , in 21 camps , by the Bosnian Croats and Moslems , and that over 6,000 Bosnian Serb civilians had been killed as detainees . |
| 13 | Perforated Ulster is being recorded for transmission by the BBC , BBC production and direction by Joan Boyd , Colin Lewis and Charlie Warmington . |
| 14 | The lowland tropical forests of eastern Bolivia are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate , according to international aid agencies . |
| 15 | Larger , flat CRTs are being developed in different ways . |
| 16 | The Gaelic Knight was being followed by another yacht , Tuhula , when it was swamped by the heavy seas and torrential rain . |
| 17 | A MUTUAL investment fund for Eastern Europe is being launched today with the backing of Continental Grain , the private American company which is one of the world 's biggest grain suppliers . |
| 18 | The few remaining Jews in Eastern Europe are being allowed a greater degree of freedom , but so are antisemites . |
| 19 | The Foreign Ministers of the G-24 , a grouping formed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) countries and international financial organizations and whose assistance to central and eastern Europe was being co-ordinated through the European Communities ( EC ) , met in Brussels on Nov. 11 . |
| 20 | Concessions would only be required once a united Ireland was being negotiated ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii . |
| 21 | On the one hand , advisory roles are shifting more towards inspection and quality control , and the accountability of advisers and inspectors to their employing LEAs is being more firmly underscored ( Audit Commission 1989b ) . |
| 22 | Here a Bronze Age site at Tel Halawa in northern Syria is being excavated in advance of flood-waters from a dam being constructed on the Euphrates . |
| 23 | Elephants in northern Cameroon are being tracked by satellite in an effort to save them from attacks by farmers when they damage crops . |
| 24 | Even in the 1850s the Ayrshire was beginning to dominate the national herd , either as a purebred or crossed with native stock , and Finnish-bred Ayrshires were being exported to Sweden . |
| 25 | BASKETBALL star Magic Johnson is being sued by a woman who claims he gave her the Aids virus . |
| 26 | A specially-built Ferrari is being entered privately for the gruelling Le Mans ( 24 ) Twenty Four hour race by an engineering team … not from Italy … but from the Forest of Dean . |
| 27 | King Kenneth I , Part II Confident young Kenneth is being warned by his wife , Queen Emma , that if he gets any more young and confident , people may gang up and say rotten things about him … |
| 28 | : Mmd An exhibition to let people see what could be the new Henley is being held at the town hall . |
| 29 | In what is believed to be the first development of its kind , a new hospital under construction in north-eastern England is being fitted with a range of energy-saving features which may reduce annual energy bills by as much as 60 per cent . |
| 30 | Guardian 1 February 2 = European alert Nuclear power stations across Western Europe are being checked for radioactive leaks following the discovery of a design fault in the giant domes of pressurized water reactors ( PWRs ) , the most common type of design . |