Example sentences of "in [noun prp] be [be] " in BNC.
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1 | Three years ago , when the establishment of a museum of modern art in Moscow was being considered , I did all that I could to welcome the idea . |
2 | Extremely high youth unemployment in Germany is being blamed on its minimum wage . |
3 | More than half the British troops in Germany are being withdrawn over the next four years , which will inevitably put more pressure on UK training areas , making the removal of the MoD from national parks even less likely . |
4 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept down to the bare minimum in an attempt to ease the town 's homes crisis . |
5 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept to the bare minimum in a bid to ease a housing crisis . |
6 | ‘ Green audit ’ call to businesses BUSINESSES in Middlesbrough are being asked to carry out a ‘ green audit ’ as part of the town 's Environment City year . |
7 | But , with dealers looking gullible , word spread that Hanson 's 2.8 p.c. stake in ICI was being placed . |
8 | Seven hundred and forty four women , patients at this surgery in Gateshead are being recalled for new smear tests . |
9 | While Rubbing Along in Burmese was being printed , I was working on a bigger handbook for learning the language , under the title of Three Months ' Hard Labour . |
10 | Today nurses from the Moyle Hospital in Larne are being bussed to attend a Northern Health Board meeting in Ballymena . |
11 | Pristine Amazonian forest in Ecuador is being menaced by a major oil extraction project . |
12 | Reports from the Muslim Refugees ' Relief Organization on Oct. 29 suggested that Moslems in Mannar were being subjected to widespread harassment by Tamil rebels , allegedly for co-operating with the security forces . |
13 | Reports issued by human rights organizations claimed that members of the civilian population remaining in Kuwait were being subjected to brutal torture and repression . |
14 | New rules for athletes in Portugal are being drawn up and Mota is helping with the project . |
15 | Fellows from universities who fought in Spain are being given jobs in Intelligence or Censorship where they could do a lot more damage as traitors than a squaddy like I 'd be . |
16 | In collaboration with the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) and part funded by the CEC , radon distribution maps for two areas in Derbyshire and one in Devon are being produced . |
17 | AN ORGANISATION set up three years ago to advise ministers on the running of the health service in Scotland is being wound up . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Local authorities in Scotland are being asked to pay for a Soviet ship to measure radioactive and chemical pollution in Scottish coastal waters . |
20 | However , the escape from spontaneity has long been a philosophical ideal , at its most intransigent in Sartre 's Being and nothingness , which treats even emotion as a matter of choice , to the point of denying the distinction between genuine and willed feeling . |
21 | JM said that a meeting in May was being planned . |
22 | The man interviewed in Doncaster was being treated as a witness who may have information about Moira 's disappearance . |
23 | Premises at East Tullos in Aberdeen are being extended and upgraded at a cost of £0 5 million in support of a long term logistics partnering contract awarded by Enterprise Oil during the year . |
24 | A total of 102 Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) in England are being damaged by eutrophication — the artificial enrichment of water caused mainly by the run-off of nutrients from farm waste , fertilizers and sewage farms . |
25 | The Labour leader and his closest advisers had decamped to a country hotel run by the local council while his own terraced house in Blackwood was being used a committee rooms for the duration of the campaign . |
26 | The Equal Rights faction conveyed a protest to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Helsinki [ see pp. 39030-31 ] that human rights in Latvia were being violated . |
27 | A man arested in Blackpool is being questioned about the murder of a student in Cheltenham . |
28 | SHOCKED fund-raisers who sponsored caring teenager Katy Hicks to help famine victims in Africa are being urged not to feel guilty over her death from malaria . |
29 | Field work data from an ethnography of a group of youths in Londonderry are being supplemented by a school based attitude survey which questions young people on their ethnic identification and attitudes to members of the other religious community . |
30 | The gathering lasted until the small hours of next morning and Dr Hsieh talked about China in English , answering many questions and telling a number of highly entertaining stories of how modern changes in China were being effected . |