Example sentences of "of [adj] be being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I do n't suppose this contract 's costing us twenty-one million , but it 's costing us several million , and I would hate to think that er , any of that is being wasted , or not spent in the best possible way , and I would therefore recommend , chair , that we refer the matter of the facilities management contract to the budget review sub-committee for consideration of the way it 's not being implemented . |
| 2 | Apart from the unfamiliarity of the entrances and exits and the other customary problems for the cast , Peter Hickton had not had time to complete the lighting plot , so much of that was being done in the course of the run , which meant endless waits while new lighting settings were agreed . |
| 3 | As the Prime Minister reproached Mr Nigel Lawson for resigning the Chancellorship ‘ with such suddenness and haste ’ — and over personality not policy — her isolation was highlighted by the ex-minister whose enforced resignation in the Westland affair of 1986 is being likened by disaffected MPs to the recent sacrifice of Mr Lawson . |
| 4 | None of this is being said to arouse , in any way , pity for East Germany 's former Communist leaders , who have so thoroughly disappointed their people and betrayed the ideals of socialism . |
| 5 | Most of this is being used to create an artificial platform which will extend a mile along the base of the cliff and 250m out to sea . |
| 6 | All of this is being analysed for different industries , sizes of firms and types of companies . |
| 7 | Over £100 000 was at stake in two cases , and the authority 's attempts to claw back some of this were being resisted fiercely . |
| 8 | The problem for the enquirer is to get behind these rationalizations to find out what experiences and interpretations of these are being repressed in order to make hypotheses about the ‘ felt ’ nature of the political relatedness between workers and management within a particular enterprise . |
| 9 | Microsoft says more than 25% of these are being converted from Unix , VMS , AS/400 and other high-end systems . |
| 10 | Microsoft says more than 25% of these are being ported from Unix , VMS , AS/400 and other high-end systems . |
| 11 | An increasing number of these are being produced commercially . |
| 12 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 13 | The best of these were being incorporated into a 7′¼″ gauge engine he was building . |
| 14 | A PRINT DEPICTING a pair of 229 Squadron Hurricanes flying low over a locomotive pulling passenger carriages to the Ashford to Redhill railway line in the Autumn of 1940 is being auctioned by forms of tender to raise funds for the RAF Benevolent Fund . |
| 15 | Something has to be done in Blackbird Leys because these youngsters of sixteen are being allowed to get away with it . |
| 16 | There must be checks and balances while power-sharing is being implemented to ensure the minimum of disturbance and that the interest of all is being served . |
| 17 | Both of those are being sent out with this issue of Supporters News . |
| 18 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |
| 19 | Nearly half those who killed themselves were suffering from mental illness , most of those were being treated for those problems when they died . |
| 20 | Now the father of two is being forced to sell his collection of Clint memorabilia . |
| 21 | Hopkins , during the later months of 1967 was being visited , rather than visiting , after his marijuana conviction . |
| 22 | BARRELS of bitter are being shipped to a Gulf state for the first time — after a plea by thirsty Britons living there . |