Example sentences of "the [noun prp] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two relatively new grant schemes ( introduced in 1980 ) funded by the EEC are being used in LFAs , though not specifically designed for the benefit of hill farming . |
| 2 | Fifteen projects designed to restore areas of native woodland in the Highlands are being financed by the North West Region of Scottish natural Heritage . |
| 3 | The Rwandan government repeated the accusation , as made in connection with the invasion of October 1990 , that the FPR was being assisted by the Ugandan army . |
| 4 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6 ’ by 9 ’ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 5 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 6 | Saudi Arabia , however , believing that the IEA was being too pessimistic about future demand , was unofficially estimated to have increased its production by some 150,000 bpd to 8,500,000 bpd ( excluding 150,000 bpd Saudi production from the neutral zone which it shared with Kuwait ) . |
| 7 | Old baby reins and buggies were brought into use and children in the Strand were being pushed around in trolleys . |
| 8 | Yesterday the EADT revealed how the Ness is being damaged by four wheel drive enthusiasts who have broken the locks on vehicle barriers to gain access for their cars . |
| 9 | A major development of the area had taken place , the CNAA was being seen to be ‘ fierce ’ in its approach , and institutions were being obliged to be ‘ thorough ’ . |
| 10 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 11 | Thus this large part of the NHS is being progressively privatised . |
| 12 | He told a conference in Salzburg , Austria , that the NHS was being ‘ penny wise pound foolish ’ in the use of medicines . |
| 13 | In 1967–8 the Yukons were being phased out and an aircraft was needed to supplement the Cosmopolitans . |
| 14 | Some of the oldest river craft on the Thames are being auctioned this weekend , along with lots of boating paraphenalia . |
| 15 | Members of the RIBA are being invited by the President of the National Federation of Roofing Contractors to attend Rooftec '90 as the guests of the Federation on Wednesday 7 November , which is being set aside as Architects Day . |
| 16 | In the 1730s settlements in the Tobol region to the south-east of the Urals were being attacked . |
| 17 | The UN is being asked to police Iraq 's border with Kuwait ; to decide how much oil Iraq sells abroad and what it can buy in return ; to make sure Iraq destroys any nuclear- or chemical-weapons plants ; and to get ready to protect Kurdish enclaves when American , British and French soldiers leave . |
| 18 | But he was always prepared to turn off the tape and listen to her ranting on about how she missed Ricky and how bloody the Argentines were being to her and to their horses . |
| 19 | In another balcony , opposite where he sat , a grand figure in the golden robes of the Archimage was being conducted to his seat , accompanied by ten faceless men in black cloaks . |
| 20 | The winds in the Bahamas were being reported by the weather service to be at 80mph with gusts to 100mph . |
| 21 | By the late 1930s , the TUC was being drawn into discussions with the government and textile unions were drawn into the task of reorganizing the cotton industry , through the Acts of 1936 and 1939 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Following the dramatic political changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union , contacts between these countries and the UK are being developed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Launching the document , Bill Brett , general secretary of IPMS , said ‘ already the UK is being driven down the league table of industrially developed countries . |
| 28 | However , during the course of a television interview a Laganside spokesman informed the public that there was no cause for concern as the mud and filth being dredged from the Lagan was being carefully loaded into ‘ sealed lorries ’ which were then washed before being driven away . |
| 29 | There is a feeling , especially among parliamentary critics of the Socialist government , that the Prado is being neglected , and is overdue a favour . |
| 30 | He also alleged that " communists are at the periphery of the NLD and that the thinking of the NLD is being influenced by the BCP " . |