Example sentences of "is [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept down to the bare minimum in an attempt to ease the town 's homes crisis . |
| 2 | It means that someone is being kept out of the know , and it 's often been me in the past , and it 's me now . |
| 3 | The heat is being kept in by the lid and you get smoke coming all the way around . |
| 4 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 5 | Moscow 's last remaining forest , in the Losinskii Ostrov National Park , is being cut down by the city 's hungry , who are using the land for illegal potato growing . |
| 6 | New life is being breathed back into the Crab at Ian Riley Engineering 's Kirkby base . |
| 7 | Mud is being pumped out of the land-locked Alderfen Broad in Norfolk in an attempt to restore a rich water plant community and a healthy fish population . |
| 8 | The young child will feel that he is being pushed out of the way to make room for someone much more important . |
| 9 | If you are behind him you can sometimes catch a glimpse of little bits of him because all the smoke is being blown out in the front . |
| 10 | The new bus is expected to be launched later this year on Intel Corp Pentium-based machines and is being developed by for the subcommittee by National Semiconductor Corp . |
| 11 | Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , has called on other trade unionists to take action today to defend the coal industry , which is being run down despite the Government 's rescue package reprieving 12 of the original 31 pits earmarked for closure . |
| 12 | The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations . |
| 13 | The 800,000 square foot plant is being leased back to the management team . |
| 14 | Mueller is taking over the plan , and Don is being transferred back to the States . |
| 15 | Development of substitutes for CFCs is being stepped up by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and manufacturers . |
| 16 | In appropriately ‘ watery ’ metaphors , Mr Wallace spoke of the Government 's economic strategy in Scotland ‘ sinking beneath the waves , ’ and Mr Mullin expressed concern that ‘ Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK ’ . |
| 17 | Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK . ’ |
| 18 | The plot has still to be finalised but insiders say Marcus will find out he has AIDS after having a gay affair with Dieter , who is being written out of the show . |
| 19 | This is clearly linked to Part 1 , since what is being projected on to the person with an impairment by ‘ able-bodied ’ culture is in itself changing . |
| 20 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 21 | So it 's fitting that his collection of fishing tackle is being auctioned off in the town tomorrow . |
| 22 | The public consultations on options for the Ipswich northern bypass is being lined up at the moment at office level for mid nineteen ninety three , there 's still quite a bit of work associated with the preparation for that preliminaries that you see , but a more measurable benefit I think Chairman is er that the , that before there is a recommendation that the threat of widening |
| 23 | At a meeting in Harare of African finance officials in July 1989 , it was argued that development is being held up by the tendency for government policy-makers to be involved in short-term crisis management for structural adjustment programmes , and responding to the demands of large numbers of foreign advisers . |
| 24 | This is being held in at the Irish Centre on York Road in Leeds and is an informal chance to chat with current members of that group . |
| 25 | He says that the fire is being held in by the collapsed roof , they want to let air get to it so it will burn itself out . |
| 26 | Four Axminster Gripper looms have arrived at Brindley Road , from LDP 's factory at Warwick which is being closed down following the take over . |
| 27 | In the door of the shop stands the owner , with the Company 's Ration Warrant Officer conducting individual qualitative and quantitative checks on what is being loaded on to the vehicle . |
| 28 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 29 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 30 | So , although it is tragic that every therapist is now hearing more and more from their patients about the way they were abused in the past , the fact that it is being brought out into the open and talked about publicly does bring some relief to those who until recently thought that their case was an isolated one . |