Example sentences of "is being [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | County roles take members into schools in their day-to-day work , and for some of the team 's functions ( especially the selection of schools for recommendation for inclusion in the project ) the project role is being played at the same time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Imagine that gas is being fed onto the outermost orbit in Fig. 5 a . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept to the bare minimum in a bid to ease a housing crisis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The cost of the operation , which was not disclosed , is being met by the Irish Government . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Government 's insistence that the Channel tunnel rail link be privately-financed is being seen as the first stage in a longer term plan to privatise the entire British Rail network . |
| 19 | In what is being seen as the first licensing by Apple Computer Inc of its Macintosh technology , the company has signed an OEM agreement that enables Honeywell Inc to use the Mac interface in avionics systems : Honeywell will use the technology to drive management information systems for commercial airline cockpits , building an Electronic Library System incorporating an adapted avionics version of Apple 's Macintosh Quadra 800 high-end box . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Strathclyde Regional Council may provide further funding and consideration is being given to the possible employment of a part-time nurse . |
| 22 | ‘ Particular attention is being given to the possible ending of UK participation at the treaty renewal point in 1992 , ’ says Phillips . |
| 23 | Bu but it , it 's , it 's momentum is being given by the poor . |
| 24 | This machine is being touted as the fastest supercomputer in the UK and is valued at over £2M . |
| 25 | Scotland 's defeat in Italy was certainly not unexpected — tonight , as we 've heard , Joe Jordan is being touted as the next Scotland manager . |
| 26 | The project is being funded by the European Community 's STRIDE programme , computer firm ICL and the university . |
| 27 | The research project is being funded by the Northern Regional Health Authority , and will be led by Dr David Morris and Dr Peter Phillimore of Newcastle University . |
| 28 | We might say that the narrator is being fucked by the same in the position of the other — a formulation intentionally ambiguous as to who exactly is in the position of the other , since it is both : the narrator is in the position of the woman being fucked by the other of woman ( man ) . |
| 29 | Much of their repertory is being recorded for the first time ( or very nearly so ) , and it may be that some current recordings will sound exploratory , even tentative , to future generations who will have the privilege to take things further . |
| 30 | The issue is being compared to the Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro launches , both of which were priced at 170p . |