Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun pl] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operation followed a tip off that stolen cars were being processed or 'rung' there . |
| 2 | The operation followed a tip off that stolen cars were being processed or 'rung' there . |
| 3 | The nuclear-free zone proposal was reportedly in the annual ASEAN discussions in 1986 , and Soviet spokesmen underlined press reports at the close of the following annual ASEAN Conference in June 1987 that specific plans were being worked out to set up such a zone which would be examined at a summit level meeting of the ASEAN states in Manila in December . |
| 4 | The impression in one village was that foreign broadcasts were being listened to everywhere , and that the ‘ text of leaflets , accusing Hitler of having started the war with every country , was approved , and the Führer cursed and damned ’ . |
| 5 | This is done as soon as some function is declared ( the simplest necessary declaration is that some solid entities are being entered ) and some volume exists , ie geometric entities that give more than a single coordinate value in each orthogonal direction . |
| 6 | But growers say that people are being conned because some spanish plumbs are being labelled as Victorias — which they 're not : |
| 7 | These injuries disturb me , for they indicate that some unorthodox methods were being tried . |
| 8 | Some individual placements were being made in children 's day centres . |
| 9 | For some questionable assumptions are being made . |
| 10 | Some trans-Pacific resonances are being detected , some symmetries noticed ; there is some recognition of a sense of common purpose and design . |
| 11 | Port erm , borrowing , and I think some Tory members are being disingenuous to say the least on this issue . |
| 12 | The theme of this month 's supplement is JFIT strategy — the thinking behind the Joint Framework and its programmes and the ways in which some current issues are being addressed . |
| 13 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 14 | Meanwhile some fundamental questions are being asked . |
| 15 | Some experimental discs are being produced , using conventional video . |
| 16 | There some noble estates were being adapted to farming directly for the market with hired labour ; there a measure of differentiation between successful peasant farmers and their proletarianized neighbours was evident ; there the traditional repartitional commune either did not exist or was decaying . |
| 17 | It was encouraging last year , that when some Cycladic antiquities were being sold at Sotheby 's , the Greek government made a protest and had some impact on that sale . |
| 18 | As parents choose where to send their children some small schools are being by-passed for the larger urban schools . |
| 19 | The police , he said , were terrific and quickly found that some non-paying spectators were being smuggled in courtesy buses from the hotels and , in a few cases , hidden in car boots ! |
| 20 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 21 | Mortality statistics of most Western European and a few other countries are being used to develop and test these new measures . |
| 22 | But now — listeners insist — some distant harmonies are being heard . |
| 23 | Try to restrict TV watching and nearly everybody would , quite rightly , be complaining that civil liberties were being attacked . |
| 24 | ‘ Towards the end of November and beginning of December 1991 , I became aware from my children , including Kevin , and from newspaper and television reports , that serious accusations were being made against Kevin involving the misappropriation of many millions of pounds , ’ she says . |
| 25 | The introduction of the ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ system of parole for convicts who could no longer be transported provoked waves of anxiety from 1853 onwards that dangerous criminals were being released to prowl the streets of the metropolis with no evidence of the character reformation promised by the new prison disciplines . |
| 26 | Indeed , one of the key points about Berger and Mohr 's study is that such moral careers are being partly constructed by capital 's requirements for a cheap workforce and one which can be dismissed in line with fluctuating demands for the products they make . |
| 27 | The ‘ danger ’ is that natural processes are being fundamentally altered by human activities and , once begun , these changes can not be switched off . |
| 28 | This did not mean , unfortunately , that human rights were being respected , but that regimes around the world were using new methods of repression such as ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions . |
| 29 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |
| 30 | These stolen cars were being driven at high speed by drivers in their teens and police cars were pelted with stones by a crowd of onlookers . |