Example sentences of "scotland be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WOMEN in Scotland are being given advice on how to deal with sex pests in the office , indecent phone calls and other threatening situations in a new Government booklet and video . |
| 2 | Local authorities in Scotland are being asked to pay for a Soviet ship to measure radioactive and chemical pollution in Scottish coastal waters . |
| 3 | But at 11.20 pm — just as Highlights from Augusta offer relief from a man repeatedly declaring that the second election result may be coming at any minute — Scotland is being indulged with different fare . |
| 4 | So Scotland is being treated well under the measures . |
| 5 | That is the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Department of Transport , which shows that a government-recommended deep water route around the North-West coast of Scotland is being ignored by 80 per cent of loaded oil tankers . |
| 6 | Thus the entire region of south-west Scotland is being relegated to the status of an English sub-county like Rutland or Westmorland . |
| 7 | In appropriately ‘ watery ’ metaphors , Mr Wallace spoke of the Government 's economic strategy in Scotland ‘ sinking beneath the waves , ’ and Mr Mullin expressed concern that ‘ Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK ’ . |
| 8 | Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK . ’ |
| 9 | AN ORGANISATION set up three years ago to advise ministers on the running of the health service in Scotland is being wound up . |