Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in other centuries I was being forced to omit , for sheer lack of space , figures of the highest cultural importance . |
| 2 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 3 | Clearly , given quite a number of different characteristics which are being scored , no single characteristic will brand a potential borrower as unreliable . |
| 4 | The grateful driver told the farmer that his cargo consisted of 47 foxes which were being transported from the Midlands to be let loose in Wales by order of the RSPCA . |
| 5 | Sponsorship of sporting events and patronage of the arts are methods which are being used increasingly to promote an organization 's reputation with the public . |
| 6 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 7 | Nurses working in psychiatric units which are being reduced in size often experience severe emotional trauma , the American Psychiatric Nurses ' Association 's annual conference was told . |
| 8 | In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement . |
| 9 | This very influential paper was succeeded by others , many also published as Professional Papers , and including exposition of the concept of entropy ( Leopold and Langbein , 1962 ) which is referred to later ( p. 159 ) although the emphasis upon contemporary environments which was being promulgated was reconciled to some extent with the more historical approaches by the time-scales devised by Schumm and Lichty ( 1965 ) as indicated at the beginning of chapter 8 ( p. 162 ) . |
| 10 | Obviously , those calories which are being flushed away are not being used by the body … which means that the body is having to use more of its own surplus fat to make up for them . |
| 11 | A senior female officer explained to an assembly of policewomen who were being trained in how to operate a casualty bureau that they were better suited to operating the telephones because of their ‘ good manners and compassionate nature ’ ( FN 29/5/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 12 | To see the impact the defensive routines are having , let's return to the division heads who are being managed by mixed messages . |
| 13 | Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has ordered the release of nine Frenchmen who were being held hostage . |
| 14 | Briquettes who 's are they , briquettes ? |
| 15 | But , as developing countries such as China and India become wealthier , more and more homes there are being equipped with fridges and freezers . |
| 16 | They feel that as innocent parties they are being cheated . |
| 17 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 18 | Soon after making The Public Enemy Cagney was to publicize his battle with Warner Bros over the roles he was being made to play and it became very evident that he was a shrewd and realistic businessman who perfectly understood his commercial and artistic value to the studios . |
| 19 | Therefore , it was the offensive school which won the procurement battle , and it is these new offensive technologies which are being used in the Gulf war . |
| 20 | This meant that sociologists have had to look more closely at the idea of ‘ skill ’ , at the kinds of skills which were being introduced , and at the effects of the Youth Training Scheme upon both the labour market and upon young people . |
| 21 | I have the impression that the arts should be first and foremost about developing pupils ' autonomy , not only in terms of the artistic skills which were being achieved , but also in valuing the vital quality of independent thinking . |
| 22 | Right erm we have run two now er unit data correction runs and it looks like we 're correcting about seventy six percent , on average , of the policy base erm the other twenty four percent being cases which are being sliced erm multiple events , you know , er and all the rest of it , all real horror stories . |
| 23 | As is well known , I was one of those who felt that adjustments and changes were needed to the Conservative party and to the policies which were being pursued by the Government . |
| 24 | Ruslan Khasbulatov , Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , at a meeting of the Presidium on Jan. 13 , supported the criticisms of Yeltsin 's economic policies which were being expressed by Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi . |
| 25 | The result was a period of internal instability which did nothing to facilitate the attempts which were being made to strengthen France 's external position by a policy of military reform and rearmament . |
| 26 | Sir Alfred Mond , of the Federation of British Industries , and Ben Turner , President of the General Council of the TUC , entered into discussions while their respective bodies debated their attitude to the new alliance and the proposals which were being made . |
| 27 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 28 | The research therefore aims to investigate alternative strategies which are being adopted in order to compete effectively . |
| 29 | It is in these areas that Save The Children has consistently moved forward through developing long term strategies which are being added to and developed year after year . |
| 30 | Certainly we would n't look at any products which were being realised at the expense of the animal without a gain to mankind . |