Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the institutions are being dragooned into subscribing for a package of shares in all 10 companies . |
| 2 | These notes are being written on a gloriously sunny February day which should enliven even the most depressed people . |
| 3 | In-house personnel are being utilized on a full-time basis to carry out the above activities and as a consequence , internal data collection capabilities have increased . |
| 4 | New Yorkers are being whipped into a frenzy for mo' Malcolm merchandise by shrewd businessman and film mogul Spike Lee . |
| 5 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 6 | Mr Webb , who is out of the Country at them moment , says he welcomes that the accounts are being looked at , as he claims he 's still owed more than £130,000 . |
| 7 | At present , many new nation states are being created in Eastern Europe , and alongside this process there is also the development , perhaps , of a new kind of ‘ European nationalism ’ , about which I shall have more to say in the next chapter . |
| 8 | But confusion can arise with climbing clubs and indoor climbing walls where ropes are being used by a lot of different people . ’ |
| 9 | The results of these investigations are being integrated with new geophysical data to produce a three-dimensional geological model of the area . |
| 10 | UNIVERSITY lecturers are being told by their union to inform colleagues if they get over-involved with their students . |
| 11 | A second objective of the research is to explore the way that managerial policies are being developed between HQ , divisional management , profit and cost centre management and at the establishment and work-place levels at a time when it is thought that large companies are decentralising their management systems . |
| 12 | Habermas calls action oriented to success ‘ instrumental ’ when it can be understood as following technical rules , and can be evaluated in terms of efficiency ( typically when operations are being performed on the physical world ) . |
| 13 | Wildlife control operations are being co-ordinated with the army , police and customs , since the animals trade is part of a wider underground market in drugs , arms and stolen cars . |
| 14 | The perceptions and attitudes are being analysed at various levels ranging from intellectual appreciation to popular stereotypes . |
| 15 | Entities are being multiplied with incredible profusion . |
| 16 | There was an excellent response to the idea of a directory of ‘ Who is now Who ’ and copies are being prepared for despatch shortly . |
| 17 | Copies are being circulated with this edition of Update . |
| 18 | Coins are being distributed through London entertainment centres including the Electric Ballroom and Dingwalls in Camden . |
| 19 | From today more Central South bulletins are being subtitled on Teletext for the deaf and hard-of-hearing . |
| 20 | He has made no secret of his irritation with the City and its ways , and in the light of the group 's disastrous plunge to losses of £71m for the year to June , shareholders are being presented with a ‘ sell me your shares or shoot yourselves in the foot ’ type offer . |
| 21 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 22 | It seems , therefore , that small clubs are being penalised for their size . |
| 23 | ‘ Clubs are being hurried into installing unsuitable and often dangerous seats when neither they nor their fans want them . |
| 24 | To capitalise on the award , adverts are being taken in the main trade magazines , and leaflets are being distributed to the sales force , both of which will inform carpet retailers throughout the country that Lafayette has ‘ outstanding sales potential . ’ |
| 25 | The effects of ultraviolet light on vegetables are being investigated as part of a £1 million project in the UK to study the consequences of the thinning of the ozone layer . |
| 26 | Resource studies Two closely related projects are being undertaken under this heading . |
| 27 | At present a number of research projects are being undertaken within the school including the editing of the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection , a collection of 3,000 texts and tunes of traditional songs from North-East Scotland . |
| 28 | For example , in education it is again pre-school nursery education that has been reduced ; community work projects are being axed by hard-pressed social services departments , and pioneering psychiatric rehabilitation services are being closed down . |
| 29 | Information Management strategies are being developed in many large organisations to manage this asset effectively , enabling the organisation to achieve crucial business objectives , in addition to controlling costs . |
| 30 | Information Management strategies are being developed in many large organisations to manage this asset effectively , enabling the organisation to achieve crucial business objectives , in addition to controlling costs . |