Example sentences of "being carry [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 An investigation is being carried out at the moment , not only by Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution but by the National Rivers Authority .
32 I felt a right idiot , being carried out on a stretcher , everybody gawping at me .
33 However , if unauthorised activities are being carried out on the site , these would require planning permission and enforcement action could be taken .
34 These completely non-invasive techniques have the advantage of being carried out on an outpatient basis but the treatment may take up to two years .
35 A New York police spokesman said : ‘ An investigation is being carried out into the disappearance of the money .
36 Two UN doctors who got into the area recently reported that amputations were being carried out with a carpenter 's saw and no anaesthetic or antibiotics .
37 The difficulty with standard significance tests is that their valid and effective use usually depends on the way the data are approached — for example whether the research has been designed with a specific hypothesis in mind or a less focused post hoc analysis is being carried out with a view to revealing underlying patterns .
38 Research into this problem , into the physical and chemical parameters affecting thermal destruction systems , their performance and design is being carried out with the aid of pilot plant experiments .
39 Research being carried out with an eye to the development of new theory … is not in conflict with basic conceptual frameworks or methodological allegiances in the field as a whole .
40 For example , on the comment form which we gave to all respondents at the end of the field-work , one policewoman wrote , ‘ The idea of research being carried out within the RUC , or indeed any police force , is a good one .
41 Today pioneering work is being carried out in every faculty : engineers work on the motor car engine — botanists on plant breeding — physicists on the production of images of the soft tissue of the human body using revolutionary new techniques — social scientists on the political development of Eastern Europe and on computer systems which mimic human experts — literary scholars produce new insights into the works of major writers .
42 There is a genuine exchange , a genuine sale and a genuine investment company , the whole transaction being carried out in a way which the Act , in express terms , provides for .
43 An experiment using silicic acid , and being carried out in a laboratory 5 metres away through a brick wall , affected the normal pattern of salt crystals being observed in Dr Reid 's laboratory .
44 He is backed by Adrian Sinfield , professor of social policy at Edinburgh University , whose concern is that attacks on the welfare state are being carried out in a climate of increasing economic inequality and worsening poverty .
45 They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer .
46 Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound .
47 Official statements said that no art restoration work was being carried out in the Chapel at the time of the fire .
48 We agree with CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ .
49 Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ .
50 Yet another youth project of a rather specialist nature is being carried out in the north east area .
51 The research is being carried out in the North West as this region is one of the largest providers of local authority unstaffed homes .
52 Most of the 38 protocols approved for genetic therapy are being carried out in the United States on patients with cancer .
53 Since then most archaeological work has been concentrated on the fortifications , with all too little excavation being carried out in the interior , mainly because of the presence of modern buildings .
54 The pilot scheme is being carried out in the Matusadona national park near the Zambian border , where the rhino population has dropped from 150 to 16 in the last five years .
55 In addition to the work being carried out in the UNEP HQ at Nairobi and in the GEMS/GRID site in Geneva , a series of GRID regional nodes are now being set up world-wide , each equipped with the same hardware and software and local subsets of the data .
56 Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable .
57 The project has the support of the Zambian Government , and is part of a wider investigation into displacement in Southern Africa , being carried out in the Department of Geography at King 's College London and the Refugee Studies Programme of the University of Oxford .
58 Londonderry-based Trust members recently visited Armagh to discover the work being carried out in the city centre area .
59 He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland .
60 They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange .
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