Example sentences of "are being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whole communities are being shaken by large numbers of deaths among young adults and young children . |
| 2 | New children are being put at risk every day because many care workers still do not know how to protect people from HIV . |
| 3 | The Group will work on behalf of service and ex-service personnel whose human rights are being abused and will be involved in the development of human rights awareness in armed services training . |
| 4 | This is the mid-Sixties , and homosexuals are being released from the closet by a law enacted by Parliament late in the novel . |
| 5 | ( At drama school the full-time course will frequently require the student to work until 9 p.m. and later when productions are being mounted . ) |
| 6 | They are so like the television it 's sometimes hard to see why they are being done on a stage . |
| 7 | But just remember that you are being judged even before you speak a word . |
| 8 | But I think it 's always a case of what you bring to acting — bring to the parts that are being offered to you . |
| 9 | There is a strong case for arguing that the dominance of Roman catholic high clergy in the determination of key value ingredients in catholic — nationalist consensus in the South is in a state of change , and that certain aspects in particular are being challenged . |
| 10 | In 1988 the Mintel study The On Trade Revolution optimistically reported that , ‘ far from disappearing , traditional pubs are being lovingly restored in most cases . |
| 11 | Whilst the age of the theme pub may be over , more and more old pubs are being transformed into identical , pseudo-historical clones . |
| 12 | A traditional interior does not have to be incompatible with accommodating whole families , nor with providing meals ; yet an increasing number of old pub interiors are being sacrificed on the altar of the identikit eating house — whether the brewer 's concept be a downmarket steakhouse or part of a family restaurant chain masquerading as an independent local concern . |
| 13 | Two people are being treated in hospital . |
| 14 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |
| 15 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 16 | Will the vast sums of money which are being asked for by the Governing Bodies of Sport mean that they will price themselves out of the market or will television continue to pay as they compete for audiences ? |
| 17 | Three new shorts commissioned by the jointly funded Arts Council/Channel 4 ‘ Eleventh Hour ’ scheme , are being screened as part of the main festival programme and three other films form part of the programme at the Birmingham Museum and Arts Gallery which accompanies the festival . |
| 18 | No doubt they are being told by their elders , as a friend informed his grand-daughter , to turn left at Gibraltar ! |
| 19 | Most types of glider are reluctant to enter a full spin unless they are being flown with the c.g. on or very close to the aft limit , that is by light pilots . |
| 20 | Make sure you understand what you are being offered and why , and also the possible effects they may have . |
| 21 | It is important to agree on , and understand the limit of the works that are being done before work starts . |
| 22 | They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer . |
| 23 | The fact that these questions are being raised has significance for the authority of the police … and it is the single most important determinant of the style of policing . |
| 24 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 25 | Check beforehand if you intend to wear a badge because , if the rules are being strictly interpreted , only a single national or association badge will be permitted . |
| 26 | Although groin guards are mandatory for all male competitors , referees have no way of checking that they are being worn . |
| 27 | Then you are being trained correctly . |
| 28 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 29 | If your weight remains constant you must be using up all your calories , but if you are gaining weight then some of the calories you consume are being stored as fat . |
| 30 | This allows carvings to develop as they are being produced . ’ |