Example sentences of "being do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DSM 's work has two purposes : to attempt to solve some of the practical difficulties associated with successful restoration , such as dampness and the type of pigments used in the paintings ; and to judge some the hypotheses put forward by art historians on their scientific merit ( this is being done with the plasterwork from St Servatius ) . |
| 2 | Is it being done for the management , who have to justify it in terms of the policyholder ? |
| 3 | The damage being done to the education system does not benefit anyone and certainly not the youngsters . ’ |
| 4 | Does the Chancellor appreciate the harm being done to the economy by the 20 per cent . |
| 5 | In addition , they can be made to break off under a large side load and in so doing , perhaps prevent further damage being done to the fuselage . |
| 6 | Peace talks were set to resume in Caracas , Venezuela , on Aug. 26 between the government and the Simon Bolivar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) , which had announced on Aug. 1 that it would suspend attacks on the country 's economic infrastructure , especially electricity pylons and oil pipelines , because of " the harm being done to the poverty stricken communities of the country " . |
| 7 | I think that they , you know , i i i i if there is da damage being done to the bridge , then we 've got to somehow address that in a different way . |
| 8 | Recently , however , it has been given added emphasis and urgency by the growing appreciation that the damage being done to the environment by the use of fossil fuels may require drastic restrictions on their use . |
| 9 | By then the Government might be more receptive to financing new nuclear build because of increasing awareness of the damage being done to the environment by ‘ greenhouse ’ gases and acid rain . |
| 10 | In our special reports this week we 've heard complaints of under-investment in railways , over-reliance on road building , and of harm being done to the environment . |
| 11 | They 're frequently mutants , because of the mating being done without the protection of the Enchantment . |
| 12 | And this one is a very interesting project because it 's being done under the director of , direction of Dr. Michael Eraut in the University , but it involves not merely the University but the East Sussex County Council . |
| 13 | Was enough being done about the vegetation ? |
| 14 | At present little research is being done on the subject . |
| 15 | There is no sense here of any engagement with the writer on what the script should be like , nor does Hepworth anticipate substantial work being done on the text after his initial moments of introspection . |
| 16 | In particular , the government gave little attention to using its powers over investment to re-structure major sectors of industry , as was being done on the Continent and in Japan [ Estrin and Holmes , 1983 ; Hayward and Narkiewicz , 1978 ] . |
| 17 | I heard a statement from the environmental health officer about what was being done on the environment , current position of the state , are we aiming to see that one ? |
| 18 | I 'd seen that being done on the telly the other night . |
| 19 | There is an increasing amount of empirical work being done on the allocation of resources within marriage ; in this country Jan Pahl ( 1980 , 1983 ) and Anne Gray ( 1979 ) have concentrated particularly on the distribution of household income between marriage partners . |
| 20 | Er it ought not to have done in so far that er we were we were we were we were moving , we were going forward to take up positions on er on the river , er and this was being done on the understanding that er a certain bridge had been destroyed , er and it had n't been destroyed er and they were and they were they were already across you see . |
| 21 | No , no , erm this is being done at the University of Surrey . |
| 22 | Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course . |
| 23 | If we did take control of the Council I think we would try and decentralize much more than is being done at the moment . |
| 24 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 25 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 26 | On the other hand , in another part of the press release , Ray Noorda ( the President and CEO of Novell ) makes a conflicting observation : ‘ This acquisition is being done at the urging of customers who have asked us to support the UNIX system directly and integrate it more fully within the Netware environment . ’ |
| 27 | Finally , mention should be made of the pioneer work being done within the Department of Local History of Leicester University . |
| 28 | Work at the moment is being done by the prince 's office . ’ |
| 29 | The conventional wisdom has been that the nature of the job being done by the organisation determines the requisite amount of rules and procedures . |
| 30 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |