Example sentences of "and [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great plates of sticky , sweet cakes and pastries were being consumed with tremendous gusto , and one man appeared to be eating a huge slab of pizza . |
| 2 | THE best of east and west are being fused together in a new joint venture designed to give Courtaulds a dynamic presence in coil coatings throughout Europe . |
| 3 | Key features to check and validate are are activities shown as starting unnecessarily early ? |
| 4 | The perceptions and attitudes are being analysed at various levels ranging from intellectual appreciation to popular stereotypes . |
| 5 | When someone suggests something as opposed to insisting on it , we enjoy the fact that our powers of discrimination and judgement are being recognised . |
| 6 | ‘ In late 1990 , we became increasingly concerned that credit managers ’ skills and expertise were being tested to the limits . |
| 7 | She knew that his Gothic romance and glossary were being turned down by publisher after publisher and he grew despondent as he rewrote and rewrote again . |
| 8 | In a voluntary way a voluntary capacity working I mean in in this sense in my there is a sense of responsibility and I find that good and challenging which is perhaps one of the reasons why I like doing these courses because you you er a certain amount of stress and responsibility is is . |
| 9 | And Hambleton are are being more restrained as I said earlier , is appropriate to our own policy . |
| 10 | All across Europe various events , exhibitions , meetings and discussions are being held which highlight the varying lifestyles of older people today . |
| 11 | There was an excellent response to the idea of a directory of ‘ Who is now Who ’ and copies are being prepared for despatch shortly . |
| 12 | By 1960 the judicial approach in the House of Lords , which has been summed up by Alan Paterson as ‘ be fair , be consistent , do n't legislate ’ , was beginning to be seen as too restrictive and the potential conflicts between the requirements of fairness , consistency and creativity were being recognized . |
| 13 | One of the tests I brought with me when I joined the Audit Registration Committee ( ARC ) as chairman last June was the question : ‘ What would be done differently if regulation and monitoring were being conducted from outside the Institute by an external regulator ? ’ |
| 14 | For example , skills in non-destructive testing and inspection are being applied in the nuclear , oil and gas and aerospace industries . |
| 15 | Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough . |
| 16 | Trains from Shoeburyness and Tilbury are being re-routed to Liverpool Street . |
| 17 | Steadily increasing amounts of their time , energy and money are being devoted to reckoning with us , not on the merits of the issues involved for the most part , but instead with a view to destroying our movement by discrediting those who comprise it . |
| 18 | A drive is now to raise the sums given by regular churchgoers and plans are being directed towards the launch of a £100,000 restoration fund appeal . |
| 19 | And plans are being laid for jaunts next year to Japan , Australia , India , Pakistan , South America and the Commonwealth conference in Cyprus . |
| 20 | Twenty golfers took part in the annual event and plans are being laid for a Fine Earthenware matchplay knockout competition next year . |
| 21 | GDA has purchased the site from Laing Homes and plans are being prepared for an £80 million mixed development for business , media and leisure activities . |
| 22 | When Molly went to the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 to translate for nuns from the college in Shanghai , recent graduates from the Medau Schule came to teach with Peggy , and plans were being made to establish a Medau Training College in England . |
| 23 | Anyway it turned out we met Ann and erm both Martin and Ian are been having a similar trauma . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Income from the pubs and brewery is being swallowed by the debt-ridden parent group , who are not paying the brewery 's bills . |
| 26 | The first research and development projects under the agreement have already begun and are operating on target and on time , the partners say — as reported at the time , in April , Bull announced its DPX/20 series of scalable Unix workstations and servers using the IBM RISC , and products are being shipped . |
| 27 | Only a few gondolas glided past , and in the distance barges laden with fruit and vegetables were being taken to a market . |
| 28 | In the UK it was repeatedly suggested , during the mounting tide of national mergers of the mid 1980s , that any benefits to corporations and shareholders were being exaggerated through creative accounting . |
| 29 | The fact that this is happening within and as a result of the capitalist global system suggests to me that a qualitatively new relationship between culture and ideology is being forged . |
| 30 | In addition to those unemployed who are not claiming benefits , another form of ‘ hidden ’ unemployment exists among those people who are in paid employment , but whose services and skills are being underutilised . |