Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In addition , extensive research is being undertaken to improve existing lines and develop new products . |
2 | We welcome the fact that a study is being undertaken to assess potential resources in the Bristol Channel and trust this will help to identify important physical relationships that must not be prejudiced through excessive dredging . |
3 | We welcome the fact that a study is being undertaken to assess potential resources in the Bristol Channel and trust this will help to identify important physical relationships that must not be prejudiced through excessive dredging . |
4 | There has been very wide extension in the sense that a large number of new course options are being taught involving new specialisms . |
5 | And the special properties of sodium silicate — liquid , settable , and non-toxic at any temperature — are being developed to create fire-resistant paints , adhesives , binders and building materials . |
6 | Even here , however , moves are being made with expert systems being developed to assist untrained operators and active compression being used to reduce the storage burden . |
7 | Anhydrous caustic soda , hydrogen gas and phosgene , all well established product areas , are being developed to produce maximum returns . |
8 | New lamps with additional phosphors are , in fact , being developed to meet these needs . |
9 | The head is still the leader and acts as chief executive from the viewpoint of governors — partly being told what to do , partly being expected to put forward alternatives of policy and plans for action , partly being used as their principal adviser and partly as the intermediary and negotiator with the other parties . |
10 | At this point , it became apparent that the systems being considered had lower priorities than other current developments , and as a result , the proposed pilot studies for DIP systems were discontinued , and the analysts concentrated on the development of the index system only . |
11 | There 's a big price to pay for being caught stealing rare creatures , with fines of up to £2,000 for each animal . |
12 | Homesplan : Permission is being sought to build two houses at the former St Stephen 's vicarage in Reservoir Road , Prenton . |
13 | Let us begin to look at what is being done to remedy these problems . |
14 | It contains practical hints on walking the route , a list of key addresses for information points and explains the work being done to restore eroded stretches along the trail . |
15 | A Paramount spokesman said : ‘ Everything is being done to get these guys out . |
16 | In some SSDs , relations with the police are dire , joint training is in tatters , and little is being done to build social workers ' confidence and skills are growing , and successful prosecutions have been achieved using the memorandum . |
17 | What plans are being made to dispatch British troops to Yugoslavia ? |
18 | More and more researchers in natural language processing are investing their efforts in dictionaries and lexicons , and efforts are being made to use machine-readable dictionaries instead of constructing lexicons from scratch ’ . |
19 | I can remember being made to kiss these strangers , even when I was say about nine , eight or nine , I can remember feeling quite embarrassed about having to do it |
20 | In France , efforts are being made to train more women for the job . |
21 | Other areas of South Wales have been blighted for years , while renewed threats are now being made to cut open parts of Clwyd 's countryside . |
22 | Some efforts are now being made to confront these problems . |
23 | To facilitate international links between the public networks , efforts are being made to standardise different countries ' ISDNs . |
24 | These are the worries of the modern world , and a Church being seen to tackle these problems head-on would be a much better image-builder than 10 TV ads trying to entice people into church on Sundays . |
25 | But most EC members are now no longer ashamed of being seen to strike tactical alliances with Britain . |
26 | What this early artist has illustrated is mobbing behaviour being exploited to trap small birds , which would have been destined to be served up at table . |
27 | A 10p share price discount is being offered to tempt small investors on allocations of up to 1,000 shares on the second and third BT3 instalments . |
28 | You should be on the look-out for any grammatical or contextual clues which are being used to signal different senses of the meaning , and which are automatically understood by the native speaker . |
29 | In what way are our vast oil revenues being used to create new industries or jobs , and what happens when they run out ? |
30 | ‘ Rational ’ — a word that can take on various meanings and get one into all sorts of trouble — is here being used to describe those models that ignore organizational behaviour and suggest that the decision-maker has near-perfect knowledge , power and insight , needing merely to conduct the necessary analysis and implement it . |