Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 Somatic hybridisation , which involves the same or different species to produce a new cell with two sets of chromosomes , is also being developed to produce new crop plants .
7 Anhydrous caustic soda , hydrogen gas and phosgene , all well established product areas , are being developed to produce maximum returns .
8 New awards in engineering practice are being developed to provide clear progression routes from the relevant national awards in engineering practice .
9 New lamps with additional phosphors are , in fact , being developed to meet these needs .
10 A pilot scheme is being developed to blend low-nitrate water from the Greensand with high-nitrate water from the Chalk .
11 Discrimination against employing people started with those in their 40s , while over-50s were being pressed to take early retirement regardless of their individual ability or health , said the report , by Eurolink Age .
12 Apart from the current pressures from Central Government not to build or replace residential homes but to rely more heavily on the private and voluntary sector and housing associations , they are also being pressed to see Residential Care as a positive choice ( Wagner Report 1987 ) , to see the residential home as a community resource by providing more flexible patterns , respite , short-term and long term care and extended day care .
13 In many of the Sussex levels pumped drainage schemes are being installed to give greater control over the water levels so that the water table can be gradually lowered , permitting the permanent pasture to be improved by ploughing and re-seeding and allowing a longer grazing season ; some will no doubt be converted to arable .
14 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 .
15 For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why .
16 The complete archive is being reorganised to allow improved access to the data held and a quicker response time to enquiries .
17 A 3D seismic programme over blocks 36/4 and 35/6 is now being considered to begin next Spring .
18 The principle behind such performance is that of energy being harnessed to realise dynamic propulsion .
19 One of the earliest was the study by Gagné and Baker ( 1950 ) with which I began this chapter ( fig. 5.1 ) , this study being designed to show that training in applying a different verbal label to each of the various stimulus lights would produce differentiation among them that would transfer to a subsequent motor task .
20 Homesplan : Permission is being sought to build two houses at the former St Stephen 's vicarage in Reservoir Road , Prenton .
21 They reflect added commercialism in the game , and the fact that in Wales various means are being sought to re-kindle public support lost in recent years .
22 Active partnership with the private sector is being sought to redress this imbalance .
23 Let us begin to look at what is being done to remedy these problems .
24 If the dodging is being done to ignore expressed emotion , then keep expressing it : ‘ Can I say again how anxious I feel about this ? ’
25 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 .
26 However , if it 's being done to honour British art rather than to satisfy the mundane demands of space packaging , that could be quite interesting .
27 A Paramount spokesman said : ‘ Everything is being done to get these guys out .
28 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 .
29 The Baseline Data sets are being processed to create data bases at the farm , family and individual levels ; core data are being merged to enable comparative analysis across Europe ; derived variables are being constructed , the Statistical aspects are being studies .
30 Although attempts are being made to remedy this lack of knowledge , there are still many assumptions about recreation and the countryside which are taken as facts .
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