Example sentences of "[adv] [being] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Energy conservation and environmental pressures are rightly being placed on oil and gas producers in the North sea . |
2 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
3 | At the height of the Cultural Revolution Mao criticized the way state bureaucracy was merely being replaced by party bureaucratism and emphasized the need for non-party , mass organizations to control the party . |
4 | This has nothing to do with the chemicals all being derived from oil and coal ( see p 166 ) as is often suggested . |
5 | Although these four authors address themselves to rather different problems , and do not appear to agree on a number of issues , their combined views on the importance of soil erosion are more or less consistent , and quite clear — its importance is exaggerated , agricultural technology initiated by both officials and farmers can respond satisfactorily , and the resources at disposal are massive and are constantly being created by technology itself . |
6 | Now , as well as the fortifications , I think one wants to erm very much keep in mind that the citizens of St Aldate 's were constantly being asked for money . |
7 | His move to the Isle of Wight was part of a campaign of harassment , making it harder for him to receive visitors , and he is constantly being threatened with placement in the psychiatric wing of the prison . |
8 | Naturally experience enables one to give a reasonable estimate — but we are constantly being taken by surprise , both by those who manage to overcome their problems amazingly quickly and by others who take longer than was initially estimated . |
9 | We can not regard the present statements as necessarily being set in concrete . |
10 | And I think some would be the less about the too much work perhaps being done by Synod and not enough by districts . |
11 | The placid equilibrium of Sergeant Bramble 's existence was suddenly being put at risk . |
12 | His talents were obviously being wasted in business . |
13 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |
14 | In these days of high land values and intensive land use it is comforting to the conservationists among us to see areas such as Threipmuir Common being designated as a Site of Special Interest and thus being left to nature . |
15 | The excavation of Upper Palaeolithic burials has shown that they were already being sewn onto clothing in positions which suggest that their role was symbolic as well as decorative . |
16 | The idea , says Hall , is to identify niche application areas not already being served by Sun software partners and encourage Commonwealth developers to exploit those opportunities . |
17 | The idea , says Hall , is to identify niche application areas not already being served by Sun software partners and encourage CIS developers to exploit those opportunities . |
18 | The first successes are already being achieved with acyclovir , vidarabine , amantadine and interferon . |
19 | ‘ Much obscene material is already being transmitted by facsimile over phone lines and is therefore virtually impossible to monitor , ’ a police spokesman explains . |
20 | Certainly , the combined effects of continued high interest rates and the poll tax is already being felt by leisure markets , with overall leisure spending growing more modestly than in the past . |
21 | Lewis is in training at Hilton Head Island , South Carolina , for his May WBC heavyweight title defence against Tony Tucker but that fight is already being overshadowed by talk of a clash with Bruno . |
22 | Robotic aids which perform like this are now being developed and are already being used under laboratory conditions in Bristol . |
23 | Experience in using microcomputers can also be gained through visits to other schools where microcomputers are already being used by school librarians and teachers in the school library . |
24 | Produced by Canada 's National Film Board and the Toronto-based Street Kids International , in consultation with the World Health Organization and UNICEF , the video is already being used by health educators and street workers in Kenya , Ethiopia , Egypt , the Philippines and more than two dozen other countries . |
25 | Produced by Canada 's National Film Board and the Toronto-based Street Kids International , in consultation with the World Health Organization and UNICEF , the video is already being used by health educators and street workers in Kenya , Ethiopia , Egypt , the Philippines and more than two dozen other countries . |
26 | A system already being used in part of the region is being hailed as a model for the whole country , as Tim Hurst reports . |
27 | You wo n't be surprised to hear that Sangenic is already being used in maternity wards . |
28 | Although there are some formidable technological hurdles to overcome , the concept is already being put into practice in several projects , most prominently from where Mace stands , in the IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc/Motorola Inc effort to bring some of the functionality found in Motorola 's 680x0 and 88000 processor families onto the PowerPC RISC architecture the three are developing , as well as maintaining binary compatibility with IBM 's RS/6000 Power RISC . |
29 | Of his forty seven recommendations for action at Wymott , thirty five were already being put into effect . |
30 | Perrier 's comeback campaign is already being shown on television in France , and appearing in the press and on radio in America . |