Example sentences of "[be] [adv] being [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although these four authors address themselves to rather different problems , and do not appear to agree on a number of issues , their combined views on the importance of soil erosion are more or less consistent , and quite clear — its importance is exaggerated , agricultural technology initiated by both officials and farmers can respond satisfactorily , and the resources at disposal are massive and are constantly being created by technology itself .
2 Naturally experience enables one to give a reasonable estimate — but we are constantly being taken by surprise , both by those who manage to overcome their problems amazingly quickly and by others who take longer than was initially estimated .
3 Energy conservation and environmental pressures are rightly being placed on oil and gas producers in the North sea .
4 The first successes are already being achieved with acyclovir , vidarabine , amantadine and interferon .
5 Robotic aids which perform like this are now being developed and are already being used under laboratory conditions in Bristol .
6 Experience in using microcomputers can also be gained through visits to other schools where microcomputers are already being used by school librarians and teachers in the school library .
7 He can only conjecture that additional maturational innovations will not become hereditary unless they harmonize with the previous ones that are already being recapitulated in maturation .
8 Unemployment ( question 2 ) was falling slightly , but real jobs are not being created in West Belfast and its environs .
9 Sections concerned with the representation of disabled persons ' interests are not being implemented at present .
10 In conclusion , this study highlights the fact that some patients are not being referred for consideration for liver transplantation when this might be life saving .
11 Well and we have seen one response for people now making Mill that is that his objections are not being finessed by computer technology , they do n't want to get back into that type of argument , because this is really not the most important argument against direct democracy .
12 One can accept that it is a complex and difficult issue as to which target language is acceptable , but clearly deaf people 's abilities are not being realised in contact with the hearing community .
13 There is nothing within that model to imply a change in the response of consumption to as a result of a change in the Y t process : expectations in this model are not being formed in accordance with the process driving Y t , so a change in that process does not imply any change in the expectations forming process .
14 They are not being used for spending , much less for spending on newly produced goods and services .
15 They have even more of a right to know if they are not being told at home .
16 No vibration is caused by the vocal cords because they are not being put into action .
17 I 'm concerned that er people are not being brought to justice .
18 Now they claim they 're regularly being subjected to violence by inmates — twenty officers have been seriously assaulted so far this year .
19 As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow .
20 Adviser and advisor are often alternatives ; -ize endings are gradually being replaced by -ise , but newspapers and publishers seem to disagree on this .
21 Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) .
22 However , international links are gradually being put in place by the phone companies .
23 In many cases the annual crops planted in the first few years are rapidly being replaced by pasture which itself is frequently proving to be uneconomic and environmentally detrimental .
24 However , two other women , Prakesh Chavrimootoo and Dharmowtee ( Sheila ) Surju , are still being threatened with deportation .
25 In many parts of the world , fish are still being caught by bow and arrow and it was a bowstring which first put Chilton , a Bolton lorry driver , on to the potential of the high-performance polyethylene fibres .
26 A number of others are still being held for questioning .
27 Despite being on a three-month priority list , 80 tonnes of newsprint and diesel are still being held in Split by the UN .
28 More than one year after the US invasion , over 2,400 people made homeless by US forces are still being held in refugee camps .
29 None the less , large sums of public money are still being spent on drainage , much of it to improve farmland .
30 No now what are the what are the items that that are still being bought as precision items ?
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