Example sentences of "are being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , these catalogues are being checked from the point of view of identifying items relating to public policy changes and the availability of the full text of these items is being tested . |
| 2 | Guide to Country Pubs says many are being ruined by the introduction of video games and other modern forms of entertainment . |
| 3 | Up to 50 drugs are being tested on the cancer cells from the blood of leukaemia patients in Bath . |
| 4 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 5 | ‘ The rafts are being pushed from the river . ’ |
| 6 | Wild species are in fashion and are being snatched from the countryside . |
| 7 | With this , hundreds of solutions are being kicked round the world and that 's why I like it . ’ |
| 8 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 9 | This 3-man team has been in post for three years and results are being seen on the ground . |
| 10 | Full details of the NVQs are being given in the CIOB 's continuing series of seminars for centres and other interested organisations . |
| 11 | The present system frequently results in simple cases being set before the High Court while much more complicated issues are being decided by the county courts . |
| 12 | The fuel rods were originally destined for the now-defunct nuclear reactor at Kalka ; they are being sent to the UK for storage because it is cheaper . |
| 13 | The USA and the UK announce that naval vessels are being sent to the Gulf . |
| 14 | All packages from here for London are being diverted to the Riyadh office for a day before they go forward . ’ |
| 15 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 16 | Now I think that the whole school meals issue , not just this , but also the way in which cost savings are being achieved at the moment in schools . |
| 17 | The investigation tests whether the benefits desired by different groups are being achieved through the Community Technical Aid project . |
| 18 | While some aspects of education provision are being centralised in the course of reform , the management of staff is being decentralised . |
| 19 | At present a number of research projects are being undertaken within the school including the editing of the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection , a collection of 3,000 texts and tunes of traditional songs from North-East Scotland . |
| 20 | Once again , not one but two new management structures are being implemented with the introduction of business managers . |
| 21 | Quite rightly strategies to cope with the problems of electronic records are being implemented from the top down , with the various national archives taken a leading role ( Higgs 1992 ) . |
| 22 | Thus ideas have come out of academe and are being implemented in the clinic . |
| 23 | Prestbury Park 's been having a heat wave … gallons upon gallons of water are being pumped onto the course to make the going good … |
| 24 | YOUR FELLOW AGENTS WERE INTERCEPTED BY CASTRO 'S MEN YESTERDAY — TODAY THEY ARE BEING FED TO THE CRABS |
| 25 | I have already explained to the House that 486 vehicles are being manufactured for the Kent link services , which serve Dartford , Swanley and Sevenoaks . |
| 26 | It then reverts to the A-Shau Valley in 1969 as 3rd Squad , 1st Platoon , Bravo Company , having sustained several casualties , are being airlifted from the fighting to a rest area . |
| 27 | Computer discs , containing the names of defaulters , are being despatched to the men in the small offices so that final legal warnings can be printed and distributed . |
| 28 | The new measures are part of the government 's policy of " integrated pollution control " , under which many of the powers of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , an independent statutory body , are being transferred to the inspectorate , an arm of the Department of the Environment . |
| 29 | The estimated 40,000 troops in Dese are being joined by the remnants of the defeated Third Army , which is struggling down the road or surrendering to the rebels . |
| 30 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |