Example sentences of "is being [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data base of the project is being constructed from a wide range of sources , including reports , documentation on the development of the Political Studies Association , and interviews with early members of the association . |
| 2 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 3 | When the invoice comes in for payment , this is copied on to the system as well , and Caterdata first searches for the equivalent delivery note to check that Brown is being charged for the right goods . |
| 4 | Will he ensure specifically that the Home Secretary gives an assurance that no pressure or persuasion is being applied to the Metropolitan police in the case of Mr. Mohinder Paul Singh Bedi of Hayes to halt their inquiries or withdraw requests to investigate the bank accounts of Members of Parliament who have business or other links with Mr. Bedi ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The lament is being played for the old military musical structure after the study found many could not even meet the required level of 20 men each and their music was suffering . |
| 7 | The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 8 | Ingres is being ported to the Topsy loosely-coupled computer at the London City University 's Parallel Applications Centre : Topsy runs a distributed Unix-compatible kernel called Meshix , and uses Motorola 68030 or MIPS R3000 chips . |
| 9 | This is a United Nations embargo , er and er all ships are required to comply with it , er and er the British , Australian , American ships which combined in this action , and we 've just had another one , and er also , there which involved also different ships , but involved er British , Australian and American ships as well , er and that ship is being inspected at the present time . |
| 10 | Imagine that gas is being fed onto the outermost orbit in Fig. 5 a . |
| 11 | At the finishing cropper where carpets are given their final sheer to achieve a smooth and even surface , £25,000 is being invested on an automatic height adjuster . |
| 12 | Now his work is being featured in a special exhibition . |
| 13 | A petition is being raised in the nearby village of Armadale , where residents are angry at the prospect of encroachment on what has been described as the last ‘ soft ’ wooded landscape in the vicinity . |
| 14 | A powerful deictic centre is being mobilised without an immediate situation . |
| 15 | A yet further , intriguingly perverse , aspect of this convergence involves the phenomenon whereby the culturally negated other becomes the focus of the very desire which is being policed within the dominant culture : the other , in the very process of being identified , displaced , and negated , becomes the object of — indeed may actually incite — desire . |
| 16 | In the meantime , the railway 's in-service stock is being repainted in a new dark red and ivory livery , mainly by one locally based volunteer and adorned for the first time with the railway 's insignia . |
| 17 | Now a similar fascination is being exerted by the ongoing Barnett Newman drama as the City Council of Amsterdam have asked for yet another laboratory analysis of his ‘ Who 's afraid of Red , Yellow and Blue III ’ ( 1967 ) which was the subject of an ill-fated restoration by Daniel Goldreyer ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 15 , February 1992 , p. 2 and No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 2 ) . |
| 18 | And Hiawatha , which CTC staged two years ago , is being expanded into a full-length touring show . |
| 19 | Mr Murphy , who is being represented by a full-time NUPE official and fellow Strathclyde Labour regional councillor Douglas Hay , declined to comment last night . |
| 20 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept to the bare minimum in a bid to ease a housing crisis . |
| 21 | This disease has been eradicated from the world , an achievement which must rank as one of WHO 's greatest successes , although some vaccine is being kept in a limited number of centres in case of resurgence of smallpox . |
| 22 | The bill for the royal party 's four-day stay — said to be up to £24,000 a night — is being met by the Korean government . |
| 23 | The cost of the operation , which was not disclosed , is being met by the Irish Government . |
| 24 | ( 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 . ) |
| 25 | Tackling truancy is being seen as a crucial part of the parental role in schooling , with responsibilities emerging as equal to parent rights in the Government 's approach to education . |
| 26 | Such parliamentary procedure in Committee is coming to an end , as it is being seen as a useless use of time . |
| 27 | But we think it is highly regrettable that economic development is being seen as an integral part of the war against terrorism , not least for those charged with making it work on the ground . |
| 28 | This is part of a wider public policy in relation to health care , where Primary Health Care is being seen as the central component of the Health Care System and an accepted general principle that Health problems be dealt with at the lowest level of complexity , and acknowledges that a well-informed , well-motivated participating community is necessary for the achievement of health targets . |
| 29 | However , as time goes by and the problem of unemployment does not seem to diminish more thought is being given to the specific problems of those applying for work while out of a job . |
| 30 | Strathclyde Regional Council may provide further funding and consideration is being given to the possible employment of a part-time nurse . |