Example sentences of "it [be] be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 2 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 3 | I think the worst of all locations would be a , would be one where the new settlement would be catering for the needs of Leeds , if it were were located along the A sixty four corridor , South South South of York . |
| 4 | If it 's being run for the short-term , they reckon , that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism . |
| 5 | It 's being run by the car parts company Unipart , to give specialist training for its four thousand employees . |
| 6 | It 's being ridden by the owner . |
| 7 | And it , it has huge implications for the Communist Party that look a rural revolution is taking place and it 's being led by the peasantry . |
| 8 | And this one is a very interesting project because it 's being done under the director of , direction of Dr. Michael Eraut in the University , but it involves not merely the University but the East Sussex County Council . |
| 9 | It 's being done by the Hudlin brothers who did House Party . |
| 10 | It 's being held in the town that claims it 's the birthplace of British ballooning . |
| 11 | We have n't seen an enormous amount of Ecstasy , but we are aware that it 's being used in the region . ’ |
| 12 | Because it 's being betrayed by the people who are meant to govern it . |
| 13 | it 's being knocked on the head now . |
| 14 | Yes well it 's being suggested by the plaintiff that in fact it was shoved into the back behind his right ear like like I 'm doing with my fingers . |
| 15 | But it 's being stretched to the limit . |
| 16 | All it is is to go towards the infirmary you know . |
| 17 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 18 | It is a rogue professional body , and it is being treated with the same kind of contempt that the air traffic controllers were treated by the Reagan administration in the United States . ’ |
| 19 | The reader should note the analogy ( similarity ) to the domestic funds flow concept explained in Chapter 1 , now it is being applied to the international economy . |
| 20 | A and erm and I think it is being conducted by the government which has just left China |
| 21 | So we need to have some check that it is being done in the right circumstances . |
| 22 | He will have to wait because Bill Dodds flew the P-40 to New Jersey where it is being painted in the colours and design of General Robert Scott 's first machine . |
| 23 | The research aims to bring out the character of the efficiency-effectiveness debate and the nature of accountable management as it is being developed through the Financial Management Initiative , the efficiency strategy and associated developments . |
| 24 | And here is Mao coming along and saying look a revolution is taking place and you guys do n't know anything about it , and it is being led by the peasantry . |
| 25 | And it is being expressed in the most unlikely places . |
| 26 | The minority is not governing itself ; it is being governed by the majority . |
| 27 | It is being sponsored by the Information-Technology Promotion Agency ( IPA ) , an organisation for promoting software technology that is related to Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry , MITI . |
| 28 | ABILL improving guarantees on cars and household goods has a good chance of becoming law because it is being introduced by the MP who topped the ballot for private members ' bills . |
| 29 | In University libraries this is well understood , and there are often systems that allow the librarian to know when a book is not on its shelf because it is being used in the library . |
| 30 | The case of the Granada is different as it is being used in the business exclusively and giving the business some benefit . |