Example sentences of "of [noun] 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 many cases the resources available to the schools during the period of change are being reduced . |
| 3 | Appropriate measures of change are being specially developed for each element . |
| 4 | The Economy Minister revealed that ‘ further good news ’ was in the pipeline , and hinted that a couple of projects were being negotiated . |
| 5 | He said that in spite of gloom and doom in some quarters about falling markets for offshore structures , a healthy number of projects were being proposed for approval and exploration success rates in the North Sea remained high . |
| 6 | He was rather disapproving of Hope 's being a Member of Parliament : he knew several politicians and trusted none . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | SIGNS are beginning to emerge that the survival of some firms of solicitors is being threatened by the collapse of the housing market . |
| 9 | SIGNS are beginning to emerge that the survival of some firms of solicitors is being threatened by the collapse of the housing market . |
| 10 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 11 | But doubts about G Tec have spread beyond California , in Baltimore , Maryland , the company also operates the state lottery , here too the awarding of contracts is being scrutinized , a forty nine million dollar contract to provide a popular computerized casino game called Keyknow is being investigated by a grand jury . |
| 12 | Kessel ( 1965 ) has suggested a limit to the amount of tablets that could be dispensed at a given time , and in some areas chemist shop assistants are instructed to refer customers to senior staff when large amounts of tablets are being requested . |
| 13 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 14 | If , as the Minister says , we recouped so much money on the Gulf war , may I ask him to explain why the Ministry of Defence is being so mean and tight-fisted towards some of those who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice during that war ? |
| 15 | In Georgia , which had declared independence on April 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38159 ] , the Supreme Soviet banned the CP on Aug. 27 , and it was reported on Aug. 28 that a Georgian ministry of defence was being created . |
| 16 | Installation of the software which is supplied on just one disk , does n't take long , but it does ask you questions about the configuration of your system such as which kind of computer is being used , the name of the graphics adapter and the resolution . |
| 17 | The financial year-end of Reed is being altered to a calendar basis from the old March year-end ; the company forecasts for calendar 1992 , which relate only to Reed International , are incorporated in Table 5 . |
| 18 | THIS year is the year in which the centenary of the World 's Parliament of Religions is being celebrated . |
| 19 | In some ways Perrett 's findings can be seen as an extension of the results on prestriate cortex in that higher order properties of objects are being encoded , using information from representations of lower order properties . |
| 20 | The laws of physics are being obeyed within every cell of the muscles . |
| 21 | The buck of decision is being passed down the chain of consequence . |
| 22 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |
| 23 | Of course 's was a very important customer of the of the railway . |
| 24 | Apologies for tonight 's meeting have been received from Nancy , who is on holiday , and may of course is is n't here because Danny has died . |
| 25 | The last sentence is is the most difficult one , because of this word withstand , which of course is is very rarely used in this sense now . |
| 26 | But we 're not Americans , we 're not part of the ecosphere or when when when we 're we 're we 're not part of their economic erm er area , which of course is being built on E C lines now . |
| 27 | But the underlying purpose , that of reducing unnecessary bureaucracy , stripping away the red tape which hinders enterprise and good er governance in this country , is something that the government is very committed to and we intend to promulgate that doctrine throughout all the areas and that of course is being taken forward in legislation . |
| 28 | Later in the summer the appeal will be made public and a programme of activities is being planned . |
| 29 | The usual range of activities is being provided and new ones have been introduced . |
| 30 | A number of proposals are being worked on by housing associations , by voluntary housing bodies , by the Royal British Legion and by the Soldiers ' , Sailors ' and Airmen 's Families Association , which are working with the Confederation of British Industry , the Institute of Directors and the Department of Employment on a whole range of opportunities . |