Example sentences of "is [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry .
2 At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffoldings and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore .
3 At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffolding and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore .
4 Will the Secretary of State recognise that now his party is being called to the debate , not the Opposition ?
5 When the invoice comes in for payment , this is copied on to the system as well , and Caterdata first searches for the equivalent delivery note to check that Brown is being charged for the right goods .
6 Though a LIFESPAN user may explicitly request whole packages of modules to be only retained in ‘ offline storage ’ until needed , there is little direct benefit to that user in offlining modules , unless the LIFESPAN file store occupancy is being charged via the VAX accounting system .
7 Composite eighteen is being supported by the Executive all those in favour against that 's carried motion three one six reference is being sought does Birmingham agree ?
8 A transformed society is being born within the fabric of the old .
9 The reader should note the analogy ( similarity ) to the domestic funds flow concept explained in Chapter 1 , now it is being applied to the international economy .
10 A cellulose-based paste is being applied to the gypsum deposits followed by a micro-sanding with fine alumina powder .
11 But at the same time another pressure is being applied to the least gifted children from working-class homes .
12 Will he ensure specifically that the Home Secretary gives an assurance that no pressure or persuasion is being applied to the Metropolitan police in the case of Mr. Mohinder Paul Singh Bedi of Hayes to halt their inquiries or withdraw requests to investigate the bank accounts of Members of Parliament who have business or other links with Mr. Bedi ?
13 County roles take members into schools in their day-to-day work , and for some of the team 's functions ( especially the selection of schools for recommendation for inclusion in the project ) the project role is being played at the same time .
14 The lament is being played for the old military musical structure after the study found many could not even meet the required level of 20 men each and their music was suffering .
15 DESPITE England manager Graham Taylor 's protests that too much football is being played in the country , clubs often undertake gruelling journeys abroad in mid-season to play in lucrative exhibition friendlies .
16 Should this scenario happen , crucial to its success would be changing the image of the area , and a key part in this is being played by the city 's successful bid for the World Student Games in 1990 .
17 A key-role in the tree planting is being played by the farm Systems Development Corporation .
18 Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark .
19 The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman .
20 Ingres is being ported to the Topsy loosely-coupled computer at the London City University 's Parallel Applications Centre : Topsy runs a distributed Unix-compatible kernel called Meshix , and uses Motorola 68030 or MIPS R3000 chips .
21 This is a United Nations embargo , er and er all ships are required to comply with it , er and er the British , Australian , American ships which combined in this action , and we 've just had another one , and er also , there which involved also different ships , but involved er British , Australian and American ships as well , er and that ship is being inspected at the present time .
22 The machine is being inspected by the makers .
23 Imagine that gas is being fed onto the outermost orbit in Fig. 5 a .
24 It is as if the past is being rejected with the author adopting a rhetoric commonly used by anti-fascists .
25 The use of sunlight to generate electricity is being vigorously pursued — a great deal of money is being invested in the improvement of photovoltaic cell technology .
26 If we place that figure against what is being raised through the community charge , we see that income tax would have to rise by 3.5p .
27 Money is being raised at the moment to provide houses for those who come out first .
28 A petition is being raised in the nearby village of Armadale , where residents are angry at the prospect of encroachment on what has been described as the last ‘ soft ’ wooded landscape in the vicinity .
29 The total cost of the project is £4 million , to which the City Council and the European Regional Development Fund contributed £1.5 million each and the rest is being raised by the museum .
30 The Court of Session action is being raised by the lord provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff-Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson , in an attempt to reassert their rights as co-trustees of the Torrie Collection .
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