Example sentences of "[n mass] be [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheep are being introduced on the coastal slopes around Shrinkle Haven Youth Hostel to stop encroaching scrub and bracken further smothering the traditional vegetation of the area and damaging feeding grounds for coastal birds . |
| 2 | Page 30 Anglo sell-off : Eight businesses worth £150m are being sold by Anglo United following its takeover of Coalite . |
| 3 | Data are being gathered from published sources and from interviews with officials , private insurers and commercial bankers . |
| 4 | The main data are being collected through the observation of incidents , interviews with participants , bystanders and the general public and analysis of media coverage . |
| 5 | In the commercial and the public sector , and even on a more private level astonishing amounts of data are being created as word processed documents , some of which are printed out , but others such as email are sent over the wires and viewed only on screen by the recipient or data user . |
| 6 | Patient numbers and mortality fail to take into account the influences of different demographic groups or diagnoses and so these simple data are being abandoned for more complex assessments that generate an overall score and tell us something about how ill the patient is . |
| 7 | Paper documentation also leads to delays in servicing users especially when the data are being delivered over the network or online , but documentation must be photocopied and sent by post . |
| 8 | The aircraft were being flown to Prestwick from Brize Norton , Colerne and Little Rissington . |
| 9 | Practise formation flying began early June and by the 18th , rehearsals with a full complement of 12 aircraft were being flown over the Norfolk countryside . |
| 10 | His description of the aircraft was not far out ; John Pain reported : ‘ By the time we left , aircraft were being repaired with dope-painted linen or cloth from anywhere and metal repairs were made with the aid of Players 50s tins . |
| 11 | This aircraft is being worked upon by volunteers to become ZS-BXF again and join CASA 352L ZS-AFA ( see FlyPast May p40 ) in SAA 's ‘ historic flight ’ . |
| 12 | Some 35% of Carpetright is for sale , of which 10% is being reserved for employees and directors . |
| 13 | The physically oriented approach uses less resources but the early binding of identifier to data is more of a static method which allows less flexibility if , for example , data is being loaded in an uncertain order or key values are being changed or deleted . |
| 14 | The official report from the Department of Transport says experienced display pilots felt ’ the aircraft was being flown in a spirited but not unreasonable manner … but they agreed that the entry speed was insufficient for a full loop . ’ |
| 15 | A shrill bleep from the missile detection system gave him a brief forewarning that his aircraft was being scanned by radar tracking devices . |
| 16 | The aircraft was being ferried from Reno ( see page 58 ) to Minneapolis . |
| 17 | Its chief task is to ensure that the charter and its offspring are being implemented by other departments . |
| 18 | I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about . |
| 19 | As of May 18 the yuan was being traded at an official central rate of US$1.00=5.3199 yuan , compared with US$1.00=5.2819 yuan on April 20 . |
| 20 | He says seventy to seventy five percent are being directed towards the private sector so why . |
| 21 | A shoal of fish jumps out of the sea , a sight to quicken the heart as Tor says this often happens when the fish are being chased by orca . |
| 22 | PREVIOUSLY uncatchable fish are being suckered into grabbing baits and flies attached to a new ‘ invisible ’ line . |
| 23 | A price of £200,000 is being asked for Newtown Common , 139 acres of rare lowland heath and woodland three miles south of Newbury , by the Tunbridge Wells office of the estate agents Hurley Lloyd Thorpe . |
| 24 | They lowered the Air Force ensign , but as the flag of the Royal Ornance Corps was being raised in its place it fell off . |
| 25 | In this first signal Gen Keightley thus alerted Eighth Army and AFHQ to the emergency with which 5 Corps was being faced by the approach of the 600,000 additional fugitives from the south , on top of the problems posed by the " 300,000 surrendered personnel and refugees " already in the Corps area . |
| 26 | During the next two or three days I noticed one of the remaining young fish was being chased around the tank by an older Harlequin , which had been in the aquarium for a few years . |
| 27 | By 1861 , 100,000 tons of fish was being carried by rail in England and Wales . |
| 28 | Four Louis XVI wall-lights valued at £3,000 are being sold from the French-style drawing room along with the £5,000 giltwood suite and 1850 card tables . |
| 29 | Since most fish feed is made of fish , farmed salmon and trout are being reared at the expense of much larger quantities of wild species like sprat , capelin , pout and sand eel . |
| 30 | Even now trout are being taken from the upper layers of the water and on more than one evening fish have surprisingly been caught on dry flies . |