Example sentences of "in the [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things I 'd like to know , erm , fairly on in the course is is your asked to bring along some thought , something you were trying to influence somebody about . |
| 2 | We were told that the papers in the case were being examined and it was clearly implied that action would be taken . |
| 3 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 4 | Old baby reins and buggies were brought into use and children in the Strand were being pushed around in trolleys . |
| 5 | BP 's involvement in the projects is being funded by XTC . |
| 6 | Only five out of seven beds in the unit were being used to save money . |
| 7 | In other words , the traditional division of unpaid labour in the home is being upheld rather than changed by the new scheme . |
| 8 | A tendency towards rather flighty behaviour in the breed is being overcome by careful selection . |
| 9 | Daily and festive worship in the temple is being observed.Most Hindus worship daily , in one of many possible ways . |
| 10 | The divisions of labour in the household are being re-negotiated between men and women and , adults and children such that the amount of time available to household members to spend on leisure and social activities is changing . |
| 11 | The winds in the Bahamas were being reported by the weather service to be at 80mph with gusts to 100mph . |
| 12 | There were also fears that the same trends of homelessness among mentally ill people as had become apparent in the USA were being repeated in Britain . |
| 13 | It announced that Mexican drug enforcement agents in the USA were being ordered home immediately , and that US DEA personnel based in Mexico would have to cease their activities . |
| 14 | But in early 1916 , then a squadron commander , he retired in frustration , in order to publicize his complaints about the way the war in the air was being conducted . |
| 15 | Beyond them , a narrow fold in the hillside was being filled with rubbish to provide space for a car park . |
| 16 | An agreement between the National Actuarial Associations in the EC is being implemented which provides for the mutual recognition by each Association of the members of other EC Associations who wish to pursue the profession in other member countries . |
| 17 | Obsessional neurosis is shown in the patient 's being occupied with thoughts in which he is in fact not interested , in his being aware of impulses which appear very strange to him and his being led to actions the performance of which give him no enjoyment but which it is quite impossible for him to omit . |
| 18 | There will be an annual audit of objects on the list to confirm that undertakings on public access and preservation of the objects in the UK are being observed . |
| 19 | For these reasons reactions between a number of metals and humic acids extracted from groundwater from different sites in the UK are being studied by a range of analytical and radiochemical techniques and attempts are being made to incorporate the findings into computer models . |
| 20 | The Committee Research Programme on the Changing Urban and Regional System is concerned with the way in which localities in the UK are being radically and differentially affected by processes of restructuring . |
| 21 | By contrast , even those who have spent all of their working lives with Leyland in the UK are being given no more than the minimum provided by the state . |
| 22 | The argument is explicit — audit firms in the US are being held to ransom by an unfair legal system . |
| 23 | the latest model war in the US is being televised weekly as a sort of gladiatorial slugfest . |
| 24 | One key strand , reflected in a number of the separately authored chapters , warns that relative poverty among women in the US is being re-fuelled by increasing numbers of older women without adequate pensions living alone through divorce or separation . |
| 25 | During the year , pesticides whose use is banned in the US were being exported at the rate of 15 tons a day . |
| 26 | Parental involvement in the curriculum is being explored , particularly in relation to the teaching of reading and this research aims to assist development here by clarifying problems and evaluating new forms of practice . |
| 27 | Fifteen projects designed to restore areas of native woodland in the Highlands are being financed by the North West Region of Scottish natural Heritage . |
| 28 | The poem is too long to quote in its entirety here , but the opening lines should provide a suitable contrast with " The retreate " : Here , a particular incident in the past is being recalled ; so the bulk of the poem has a content time which is separate from the coding time . |
| 29 | It should , however , be used as a management tool both by officers and officials and as a clear statement to members of how their subscription to and interest in the sport are being expended . |
| 30 | Of all the community services on offer , he had chosen the coastguards , which involved nights spent quietly in a hut on the cliff tops watching for shipping ; and the hardest part of all the trials he endured in the Navy was being marooned on a ship for months on end with no opportunity to be alone . |