Example sentences of "is being [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sources within the Stock Exchange confirmed yesterday that the sudden pre-bid surge in the traded options market is being examined by an insider dealing investigation team which looks at suspicious activity ahead of the release of price-sensitive information . |
| 2 | At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffoldings and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore . |
| 3 | At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffolding and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore . |
| 4 | Will the Secretary of State recognise that now his party is being called to the debate , not the Opposition ? |
| 5 | A simple model of human face recognition based on work by the grant holders and other British groups is being employed as a framework within which to design and interpret experiments . |
| 6 | Though a LIFESPAN user may explicitly request whole packages of modules to be only retained in ‘ offline storage ’ until needed , there is little direct benefit to that user in offlining modules , unless the LIFESPAN file store occupancy is being charged via the VAX accounting system . |
| 7 | The launch is being supported by a £1.7m TV campaign through BMP DDB Needham . |
| 8 | Composite eighteen is being supported by the Executive all those in favour against that 's carried motion three one six reference is being sought does Birmingham agree ? |
| 9 | A transformed society is being born within the fabric of the old . |
| 10 | Another recent innovation is that of biotechnology , which involves the use of organisms ( especially bacteria ) in industrial and technological processes and which is being applied to a variety of environmental management problems such as waste treatment . |
| 11 | A cellulose-based paste is being applied to the gypsum deposits followed by a micro-sanding with fine alumina powder . |
| 12 | This year the main inter Company Golf Match is being organised by Lyles and is being played on a Saturday instead of the usual Sunday . |
| 13 | These meters provide minute-by-minute data on viewing — or at least on what is being played on every set that is switched on . |
| 14 | DESPITE England manager Graham Taylor 's protests that too much football is being played in the country , clubs often undertake gruelling journeys abroad in mid-season to play in lucrative exhibition friendlies . |
| 15 | A special role is being played by a number of voluntary organisations , especially in the northern European countries . |
| 16 | A key-role in the tree planting is being played by the farm Systems Development Corporation . |
| 17 | Should this scenario happen , crucial to its success would be changing the image of the area , and a key part in this is being played by the city 's successful bid for the World Student Games in 1990 . |
| 18 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 19 | The machine is being inspected by the makers . |
| 20 | It is as if the past is being rejected with the author adopting a rhetoric commonly used by anti-fascists . |
| 21 | The use of sunlight to generate electricity is being vigorously pursued — a great deal of money is being invested in the improvement of photovoltaic cell technology . |
| 22 | If we place that figure against what is being raised through the community charge , we see that income tax would have to rise by 3.5p . |
| 23 | Money is being raised at the moment to provide houses for those who come out first . |
| 24 | The remaining DFl.215,000 is being raised by a scheme whereby individuals , businesses and societies are encouraged to ‘ adopt ’ one or more panes of glass . |
| 25 | The total cost of the project is £4 million , to which the City Council and the European Regional Development Fund contributed £1.5 million each and the rest is being raised by the museum . |
| 26 | The Court of Session action is being raised by the lord provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff-Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson , in an attempt to reassert their rights as co-trustees of the Torrie Collection . |
| 27 | The convention on climate change is being blocked by the US on the grounds that global warming remains unproven . |
| 28 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 29 | And although entitlement caps are not easy to implement , there is more interest in them in Congress than there has been for years , and the interest is being communicated to the administration . |
| 30 | The proof that where there 's brass there 's muck is being unearthed in the North-East . |