Example sentences of "[be] [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children are being invited to attend special masterclasses , using facilities not available at their own schools . |
| 2 | What plans are being made to dispatch British troops to Yugoslavia ? |
| 3 | More and more researchers in natural language processing are investing their efforts in dictionaries and lexicons , and efforts are being made to use machine-readable dictionaries instead of constructing lexicons from scratch ’ . |
| 4 | To facilitate international links between the public networks , efforts are being made to standardise different countries ' ISDNs . |
| 5 | In France , efforts are being made to train more women for the job . |
| 6 | The long-term prediction is that the only defence against AIDS lies in effecting behavioural changes and anthropologists are being employed to study behavioural aspects . |
| 7 | An auditor shall by examination of the accounts and other wise satisfy himself … that the body whose accounts are being audited has proper arrangements for securing economy , efficiency and effectiveness in the use of its resources . |
| 8 | There has been very wide extension in the sense that a large number of new course options are being taught involving new specialisms . |
| 9 | For example , police surgeons and paediatricians are learning to conduct medical examinations in partnership , and social workers and police officers are being trained to conduct joint interviews with children where sexual abuse is suspected . |
| 10 | Volunteers are being asked to visit residential homes and befriend the people who stay there . |
| 11 | Wear Valley district councillors are being asked to approve increased charges for meals on wheels and luncheon clubs . |
| 12 | And the special properties of sodium silicate — liquid , settable , and non-toxic at any temperature — are being developed to create fire-resistant paints , adhesives , binders and building materials . |
| 13 | Anhydrous caustic soda , hydrogen gas and phosgene , all well established product areas , are being developed to produce maximum returns . |
| 14 | It has no executive power , and its recommendations are not binding — which means in effect that the individual countries are being left to implement any proposals agreed at the meeting . |
| 15 | EVENING CLASSES are being used to educate rural protesters in the best ways to defend the countryside from polluters and developers , writes Christian Wolmar . |
| 16 | They also thrive in Kenya on a farm at 1,800m above sea level , in a wet savannah climate where they are being used to improve native cattle . |
| 17 | Data collected in the course of the recently completed project on the relationship between rail fares and locational decisions are being used to explain these trends . |
| 18 | You should be on the look-out for any grammatical or contextual clues which are being used to signal different senses of the meaning , and which are automatically understood by the native speaker . |
| 19 | Shock tactics are being used to make young drivers more aware of danger on the roads . |
| 20 | The demonstration arranged by the Lesbian and Gay Direct Action Group , OUTRAGE , is to challenge public decency laws which it claims are being misinterpreted to criminalise public shows of affection between gay couples . |
| 21 | More US cinemas are being adapted to screen interactive films . |
| 22 | Only pig and poultry farmers who are being forced to feed large quantities of high priced grain are losing out . |
| 23 | But many feel that they are being forced to spend large amounts of time unnecessarily testing pupils and recording achievement . |
| 24 | Home helps are carrying out tasks which they say should be carried out by qualified nurses and are being forced to neglect domestic duties such as cleaning and shopping , according to a survey by public sector unions . |
| 25 | In most of the rich countries , both old and new landfills are being forced to meet higher standards . |
| 26 | The current levels of expenditure per student can not be maintained , and academic institutions are being forced to find other routes to cope with the demand . |
| 27 | Stiffer emission standards are being introduced to reduce permissible levels . |
| 28 | By 1985 according to the Financial Management Unit ( Cabinet Office ( MPO ) / Treasury ( FMU ) , 1985a , p 4 ) ‘ most departments [ were ] developing new ( or strengthening existing ) arrangements for reviewing programmes systematically each year ’ , and all departments were being urged to adopt similar procedures . |
| 29 | Mr Wilson , the MP for Cunninghame North , said it was gangsterism and claimed that people were being blackmailed to accept lower terms and conditions . |
| 30 | He said the purpose of the annual review was to inform the legal profession , the users of the court and the wider public of what problems had been encountered in endeavours to achieve better , cheaper and swifter appellate justice , what steps were being taken to overcome those problems and what success was attending those efforts . |