Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as reaching the consumer through well known magazines such as Good Housekeeping , House & Garden , Ideal Home and Homes & Gardens , adverts have also been taken in the carpet trade press informing retailers of the support being given to promote sales . |
| 2 | NURSES are being given acting lessons — to help them cope with irate patients . |
| 3 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 4 | Eight out of twelve Members , however , welcomed the extensive coverage being given to select committees , and some would like even more . |
| 5 | The college was founded as a radical , even visionary institution , being intended to widen women 's culture and thus their whole lives , rather than merely provide vocational training for future governesses . |
| 6 | There appeared no reason to suspect suicidal intent ; rather , the therapist understood the overdose as being intended to evoke sympathy from Ann , to make her feel guilty about leaving home and to put pressure on her to return . |
| 7 | A strained expression appeared on Ron 's face which Helen eventually interpreted as being intended to convey concern , or sympathy , or both . |
| 8 | A fight is being waged to save war pensioners ' housing benefits . |
| 9 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 10 | And the futures market is being manipulated to protect share prices : the Tokyo Stock Exchange , a mouthpiece of the finance ministry , wants the right to prevent securities firms from trading stock-index futures on their own account any time it thinks the stockmarket is ‘ overheated ’ . |
| 11 | Partners are also being taught coaching skills to help them become less autocratic . |
| 12 | He 's being taught to speak Italian by his new friends , but there 's no real change as far as his job is concerned . |
| 13 | The end of his second term of chairmanship — shortened to two years at his request — comes as Glasgow faces the prospect of most of the city 's major hospitals being devolved to trust status . |
| 14 | A recent survey by the US Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association reported that more than 90 medicines were being developed to combat AIDS and AIDS-related conditions . |
| 15 | The data dictionary — being developed using SNI 's Entity Relationship Model ( UX No 409 ) — will form the basis of a planned Informix repository which is at least a year out and does n't have a target interface environment yet . |
| 16 | Funding from a variety of sources is being developed to support petroleum geology and related studies within BGS . |
| 17 | In addition , self-assessment checklists are being developed to assist centres to decide their readiness for devolved responsibility , and more general staff development material for centres is being looked at . |
| 18 | It is extremely odd to reflect today that whilst the " boffins " managed to save the country in 1940 with radar in the Battle of Britain , no parallel device was being developed to help Bomber Command . |
| 19 | In contrast to the balanced growth incidence analysis , we now allow k to vary and we are interested in how it responds to changes in the level of debt , with the taxes being adjusted to secure budget balance . |
| 20 | Never has so much been expected of general medical practitioners and practice staff ; general practitioners are being pressed to do audit , participate in commissioning , become fundholders , do research , improve consumer responsiveness , and develop new skills in the transfer of services from secondary to primary care and development of community care . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the Labour Party is being pressed to support AV , because in a British election it would be expected to help the Liberal Democrats at the expense of the Conservatives . |
| 22 | Since then , events have moved on and despite the media losing interest in the proceedings , progress has been made towards the draft legislation being amended to include snack foods in the list of permitted categories . |
| 23 | The existing HNC in Social Care is being revised to take account of the integration of health and social care SVQs . |
| 24 | Failure to comply with the terms of a Default Notice will normally result in the default being disclosed to credit reference agencies . |
| 25 | On the Hooton to Chester and Ellesmere Port line , a new aluminium conductor rail is being installed to cut electricity waste . |
| 26 | By responding to your own learning needs rather than being expected to absorb blanket information as a group , you will be able to chart your own progress more accurately , develop and extend your interests and expertise , and research new materials as and when you feel the need . |
| 27 | With debts rising above £6.5m and spending money to be found for Kevin Keegan 's summer team-building mission , fans are being expected to pay part of the price of the club 's mismanagement . |
| 28 | In the cab , on the way home , he had chatted inconsequentially — about the coming spring , mutual acquaintances , his chances of being picked to play cricket for England in Australia that winter . |
| 29 | However , we found in practice that in different runs very similar contigs were generated , the differences between runs being confined to contig breaks and to regions in the probe order where the probes were repetitive . |
| 30 | Formerly organised and billeted to defend China against a massive Soviet attack from the north , parts of the army are now being reorganised to form rapid-deployment forces . |