Example sentences of "are be [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The all-male strip troupe are being checked out by the Office of Fair Trading after a rival group complained about unfair practices . |
2 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of compact discs has denied accusations that music lovers are being ripped off over the cost . |
3 | In one sense Japanese subcontractors are being pushed away from the most labour intensive processes where overseas plants have the advantage . |
4 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
5 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
6 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
7 | But with the help of Renfrew High School , 14 crates of books , pens and other equipment , including a computer , are being sent out to the African school . |
8 | Half a million application forms have been printed and are being sent all around the country , via over 1,000 blubs , nearly 3,000 schools and through the RFU youth development officers . |
9 | THOUSANDS of children are being struck down by a dysentery-type bug sweeping through nursery schools . |
10 | What further contingent liabilities are being assumed elsewhere in the group ? |
11 | The drought means crops have failed and food is scarce , while vital resources are being frittered away in a bitter civil war . |
12 | The young are being drained out of the village . |
13 | We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies . |
14 | All the tenets of software pricing , laid down by IBM Corp for its mainframes and slavishly copied by the rest of the industry , are being swept away with the erosion of IBM 's dominance . |
15 | We are being swept off to the right , towards a giant chunk of basalt in the river , and despite Sam 's frenzied efforts at the oars , we bounce into it . |
16 | When my right hon. Friend next visits the duchy , will he point out that under our NHS reforms a record number of patients are being treated there by a record number of doctors and nurses , and that waiting lists are falling ? |
17 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
18 | Since new SVQs are being accredited almost on a monthly basis , SCOTVEC is introducing ‘ SVQ Accreditation Update ’ which will list all accredited SVQs and those expected to be approved over the ensuing few months . |
19 | This changed with the re-emergence of long-term structural unemployment , leading to the de-incorporation of increasing sections of the working class , ‘ who are being defined out of the edifice of citizenship ’ ( Dahrendorf , 1985 , p. 98 ) . |
20 | Whatever the future effects of the Tomlinson report on nurses and nursing services , nurses are being affected now by the problems of the capital , says Pearl Brown , primary services manager of the Riverside Health Authority and a member of the inquiry team . |
21 | Decisions are often reached more quickly when a chairperson is doing their role effectively and pulling strands together than when opinions are being tossed haphazardly around a group . |
22 | Other ideas are being followed up by the Supply Chain Management Project which is investigating ideas on promotional planning , information availability and customer service system enhancements . |
23 | Where possible , the more significant ‘ non-Leicestershire ’ cases are being followed up in the relevant local newspapers , and national events are being followed up in The Times . |
24 | Where possible , the more significant ‘ non-Leicestershire ’ cases are being followed up in the relevant local newspapers , and national events are being followed up in The Times . |
25 | Teachers , many of whom agree in principle , are worried the changes are being rushed through without the public , particularly employers , being educated about them . |
26 | The merits of individuality are being lumped together with the dangers and both are being dismissed as ‘ individualism ’ . |
27 | It is ironic that the changes are being adopted just after the dismemberment by the Government of the Nature Conservancy Council , mainly at the instigation of Scottish Office . |
28 | ‘ But we are being beaten back at every turn , simply because of racial prejudice . ’ |
29 | Appraisals are being extended actively across the Group and attitude surveys will have sounded out employees ' views at all sites by the end of this year . |
30 | Erm during the course of the footings and flooring taking place , bricks have been ordered to come in where the walls are being built together with the joinery . |