Example sentences of "[am/are] being [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're being revenged on Balor for it . ’ |
| 2 | Just for those of you who have just arrived , we 're actually recording this session as part of a a large spoken database which is gon na be part of a national archive and so you 're being recorded for posterity . |
| 3 | They 're being bred by farmer , Christopher Marler and this year , there 's been something of a baby boom . |
| 4 | Well he knows that his views may not necessarily be the majority and count in the end , but at least they 're being taken into account and being considered to be important . |
| 5 | They 're being taken to court and made to pay . |
| 6 | Exactly , they 're not , they wan they 're being interviewed for television , they ca n't be probably their normal selves , can they . |
| 7 | This year , let's say , 100 children are being tested in mathematics . |
| 8 | Two types of road are being tested by Government research centres . |
| 9 | ‘ We think they are being shot for meat when they land in Afghanistan , ’ she said . |
| 10 | But things are being done by stealth . ’ |
| 11 | But things are being done by stealth . ’ |
| 12 | It can cause problems if patients ' case records are held at the place from which they went on leave of absence , but they are being seen for review elsewhere or are attending some other facility such as an out-patient clinic or a day hospital . |
| 13 | Those drastic price cuts instituted by Univel Inc last week ( CI No 2,128 ) are being seen as response to the nervousness engendered by Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market . |
| 14 | We are being seen in Science , twenty ninth and thirtieth . |
| 15 | In some cases , incentives are being given by management to workers who disassoc disassociate themselves from the unions , leading to hostility and antagonism within the workplace between workers who have traditionally been united in furthering industrial relations . |
| 16 | And they may be torn three ways , between the practical direction they are getting in the school , the advice they are being given in college and by their teaching practice tutor , and their own developing sense of the kind of teacher they would or would not like to become . |
| 17 | The problem for the enquirer is to get behind these rationalizations to find out what experiences and interpretations of these are being repressed in order to make hypotheses about the ‘ felt ’ nature of the political relatedness between workers and management within a particular enterprise . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's possible , but I do n't think so.l think the two activities are being run in tandem . ’ |
| 19 | However , from 1989–90 combined multielement hydrogeochemical surveys for 20 elements using ICP-OES are being mounted in parallel with stream sediment/soil sampling programmes to achieve both mineral exploration and environmental objectives . |
| 20 | Microsoft says more than 25% of these are being ported from Unix , VMS , AS/400 and other high-end systems . |
| 21 | They say that too many sick people are being sent to prison again and again instead of being treated . |
| 22 | A pro forma invoice may be sent before goods are delivered : if the customer is a new one and the manufacturer does n't know if he will pay his bills ; or if the goods are being sent on approval and may later be returned to the manufacturer . |
| 23 | The nomadic Awa Guajá tribe of Brazil are being condemned to extinction because of government delays in demarcating their land , according to Survival International . |
| 24 | A total of 102 Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) in England are being damaged by eutrophication — the artificial enrichment of water caused mainly by the run-off of nutrients from farm waste , fertilizers and sewage farms . |
| 25 | EC directives on environmental policy are being ignored by member states , according to a report by the European Commission . |
| 26 | Meanwhile two people are being questioned in connection with the murder of a Northampton man . |
| 27 | Residents also fear that people using the only regularly served bus stop in the village — up on the A31 bypass bridge — are being placed at risk . |
| 28 | How can he explain the position in Surrey and in St. Albans , where consultants are being placed under pressure by managers to give priority to GP fund holders because they bring extra money ? |
| 29 | Is the Minister aware that substantially lower steel production costs are being achieved by NUCOR with thin slab production in the United States ? |
| 30 | The owners are being contacted in writing and advised of the situation so they have the option to surrender the dog . ’ |