Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the old national differences in styles of play are being gradually erased by the globalisation of football , so the cultures around spectatorship are undergoing a period intensified mixing and matching . |
| 2 | In the countryside beyond Adelaide , tiny villages were just beginning to emerge , and acres of land were being cultivated for garden plots . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , contemporaries realised that the tradition which made foreign policy one of the most arcane aspects of government was being breached : a well-informed former diplomat noted that the laying of so much diplomatic correspondence before parliament was a " sort of new habit " . |
| 4 | Although voices of dissent are being heard , there is no sign of the supermodel phenomenon abating in the near future . |
| 5 | After the hearing Mr Rodmell , said : ‘ Great swathes of beach are being taken in and put under the banner of Sites of Special Scientific Interest , which makes things very difficult for us when we need bait . |
| 6 | All sectors of ownership are being taken into account : the State ; local authorities ; the church ( excluding the Vatican but including objects held in the churches and convents of the different religious orders ) ; and private individuals ( obviously only if the owners have let the State know what they possess ) . |
| 7 | THE traditional skills of hedge-laying are being revived in Cleveland on land recently acquired by the county council for public open space . |
| 8 | It demonstrates , I would argue , the ideological use to which conceptions of literacy are being put in current academic practice . |
| 9 | ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’ |
| 10 | Hall 's positive views about the timing of the judges ' appointments probably originated as early as 1835 , when the plans for the new Houses of Parliament were being considered . |
| 11 | Husks of rye and scraps of straw were being splintered aside by the charging horse . |
| 12 | And at a time of frequent harvest failures and recurrent food shortage , exports of grain were being ruthlessly forced upwards . |
| 13 | The arts generally continued to thrive through public subsidy , to orchestral music above all , and new forms of partnership were being developed between the Arts Council and local authorities and industry and finance . |
| 14 | Staff at a centre for birds of prey are being kept busy feeding two new arrivals — baby fish eagles . |
| 15 | The former , according to Dr Oliver Rackham , indicates that areas of woodland were being carefully managed as coppices with standards in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to produce the poles for rails and hurdles and the timber for the heavier tracks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The therapist should explain fully why certain areas of questioning are being broached so that parents feel part of the assessment procedure . |
| 18 | By the late 1960s a number of lines of evidence were being brought together into a new , radical model of global tectonics . |
| 19 | Several lines of enquiry are being pursued with the Meat Marketing Board and the Meat and Livestock Commission , and you can help by asking for Herdwick whenever you buy woollen garments or meat . |
| 20 | The controversial policy of gassing entire badger populations known to be infected with TB has been and gone , and today two lines of research are being followed . |
| 21 | All possible lines of inquiry are being pursued . |
| 22 | ‘ While the bodies are lying in the open , blocks of ice are being placed on them . ’ |
| 23 | The balloon 's been stolen , and 10 crates of lager are being offered to anyone who helps locate it . |
| 24 | All of this meant that Paisley 's criticisms of apostasy were being uttered in a considerably more apostate era than the times in which Hunter and Grier had failed to promote their schism . |
| 25 | Ironically the trend towards growing imports of oil was being reversed at the time . |
| 26 | It suffered increasingly from water run-off , leading to a growing soil erosion problem : around 300-400 million tonnes of soil was being lost to erosion every year . |
| 27 | Around 428 million tonnes of waste were being generated annually . |
| 28 | Deforestation was the chief cause of floods and landslides which killed several hundred people each year ; 15,000 million tonnes of earth were being washed into Asian rivers each year and villages were lacking clean drinking water . |
| 29 | In Anglo-Irish. erm ‘ There was a small tap on the pane , as though something had struck it , followed by a light , though abundant falling , as though grains of sand were being dropped from a window above , and then a more intense and regular sound , which took on a rhythm and became fluid , resonant , musical , infinite , universal . |
| 30 | Soon pieces of meat were being roasted right around the fire , and the air was thick with the smell of charred flesh and singeing fur . |