Example sentences of "[being] make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress is being made towards multi-party democracy in Africa .
2 The type of manufacturing firm that is established is also important , with a fundamental distinction being made between indigenous and exogenous enterprises , and between parent companies and branch plants .
3 The Balkan Christians were placed within the millet-i-Rum , no distinction being made between Orthodox and Roman Catholic believers — most were in fact Orthodox .
4 As a result of the difficulties often encountered by users , a differentiation is being made between naive and experienced users of online catalogues .
5 In general this is the sort of forecast that is currently being made about Western industry .
6 But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral .
7 Among academics , there is continued interest in using a diversity of methods ( see p. 123 ) , and more use is being made of secondary data , such as personal documents , official statistics , and data held in the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) Data Archive at Essex University ( see p. 100 ) .
8 Side-drum sticks being made of hard unyielding wood without a soft head produce , of course , a much harder and more metallic sound than do the soft-headed timpani sticks .
9 Clearly these regulations were meant to confine carried-out timber to that fit only for firewood , but in 1792 complaints were still being made of enormous losses of timber through yard workers , who even finished work early to allow themselves time to saw up useful lengths , which they sold at a shilling each .
10 Comparisons are being made with other types of store .
11 History is still being made with antiviral agents from the same laboratories .
12 In addition to a steady flow of Western social , political , economic , and scientific works , contact was being made with Western radical organizations , including the first International , and an expanding body of Russian social criticism was becoming available .
13 Their investment advisers might try to stop them , or limit the investment if it was being made on social grounds , but the Labour Groups could be relied upon to over-rule the objections .
14 However , both he and his 73-year-old wife predicted those increases would be passed on to consumers , with extra charges being made on day-to-day necessities .
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16 The chairman requested that the departmental reports be considered one by one and the governors went through it section by section , specific comments being made at particular stages .
17 My focus here will be upon those issues which have arisen because of the challenges being made to pre-existing ideas about :
18 Applications for grant aid are being made to various bodies , including The Development Board for Rural Wales .
19 Grants totalling £150,000 over three years are being made to voluntary organisations for projects aimed at dissuading young Scots from drifting to London without making adequate preparation for housing and employment , assisting those in London who want to return to Scotland and supporting the young homeless in Scottish cities .
20 These arguments are given some strength when we realise that the claims being made for English language by Lyons are remarkably similar to those being made for other aspects of English in general , or of English class culture in particular , by other writers .
21 An exchange can publish the quotes that are being made for future business , or the price at which historic business has been done .
22 We have heard evidence of arrangements being made for special services on Sundays in casual wards … every endeavour should be made to break the monotony of the casuals ’ Sunday by these and other means , such as visits by persons of goodwill ’ .
23 The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ .
24 These arguments are given some strength when we realise that the claims being made for English language by Lyons are remarkably similar to those being made for other aspects of English in general , or of English class culture in particular , by other writers .
25 But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial .
26 This course would enable 5 Corps to be tactically disposed in the light of new policy , or ( b ) a proportion at least of the numbers should be returned to Italy and concentrated under the same arrangements that are being made for surrendered personnel of Army Group SW .
27 Arrangements are being made for full details of the policy to be circulated to all employees .
28 Delegates , this resolution is about uniting all of the unions in the public sector , after all we did it in nineteen seventy nine and as we all know that was against our Labour government , with one aim , to reject this government 's pay policy and to combine and fight for a pay increase which we 'll endeavour to counter the savage attacks which are being made against public service workers .
29 Whatever the ultimate effects of the present move to academic excellence and competition in our schools I would point people in the diocese to notice the serious cuts which are being made within other areas of education in both Cumbria and Lancashire — and especially , in this time of discussion about juvenile crime , in the County Youth Services .
30 But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence .
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