Example sentences of "[subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Phone hotel where course is being held , provisionally book accommodation . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The situation frequently occurs where benefit is being paid under a valid unemployment claim and the claimant is offered short term temporary employment . |
| 10 | There they found a tanker and stand-pipe , also a stall where bread was being doled out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is essential to read the small print on the auction particulars , especially where obligations are being passed to the purchasers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She 's hoping a pub or hotel where renovation is being carried out will solve the problem at the Arts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Where soil is being removed slowly it may be that it has built up in layers and a ‘ case hardening ’ effect is experienced . |
| 18 | Where Italy is being given a cold shoulder today , could other deficit countries with particular political problems — a Mitterrand France , a Wilson Britain , a post-Franco Spain , a Denmark with a parliament of all-sorts — be jilted tomorrow ? |
| 19 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 20 | When she reached the atrium , she could hear the faint hum of voices and laughter coming from the library , where drinks were being served beside the fire — for the weather had reverted to normal , and there was a chill in the air this evening . |
| 21 | Where land is being retained for particular development in the future — such as the metro system — this can not be regarded as available for grant-aided woodland planting . |
| 22 | The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held . |
| 23 | Although attempts are being made to remedy this lack of knowledge , there are still many assumptions about recreation and the countryside which are taken as facts . |
| 24 | The reason why red in red hair is unique is that the colour it refers to would not be labelled red if anything other than hair were being described . |
| 25 | ‘ More than £3m is being spent on the towns and just £54,000 on the villages . |
| 26 | If ‘ we hear the key turn each in his prison ’ , it may be a satisfaction to find occasionally that entry rather than closure is being sought ; for while he had a great many acquaintances and , as his fame increased , hundreds who wanted to meet him if only in order to say they had done so , he lacked relationships which were simple , straightforward , and stable . |
| 27 | The Bölkow 207 is fitted with toe-operated rubber pedals on the P1 position only , so Nigel was being very trusting in giving me the only set of brakes . |
| 28 | Although work is being done amongst the underprivileged one gets the impression that the real commitment shown by cricket — and Dr. Ali Bacher in particular — is lacking . |
| 29 | More than £150,000 is being saved annually by energy-conscious Middlesbrough Council . |
| 30 | So when it is argued today that the sexual deviant challenges sexual difference by denaturalizing it through parody , the realization of the early modern transvestite that both the deviant and the difference are effects of culture rather than nature is being revived and sophisticated . |