Example sentences of "is being [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that more and more heat is being kept back by a blanket of gases surrounding the Earth ( including Carbon Dioxide and CFCs ) and as a result temperatures around the world are gradually increasing . |
| 2 | The heat is being kept in by the lid and you get smoke coming all the way around . |
| 3 | Such a movement , if continued , would presumably quickly deplete the feature and lead to its destruction , unless the bar is being built up by onshore movement of material at its western end as Hardy suggests . |
| 4 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 5 | Moscow 's last remaining forest , in the Losinskii Ostrov National Park , is being cut down by the city 's hungry , who are using the land for illegal potato growing . |
| 6 | The sawgrass , which served as a vital part in the food chain , is being pushed back by cattails , a dense plant that thrives on the phosphate-rich water . |
| 7 | The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations . |
| 8 | As we shall see , this prediction is being borne out by current work on the visual cortex . |
| 9 | Development of substitutes for CFCs is being stepped up by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and manufacturers . |
| 10 | In appropriately ‘ watery ’ metaphors , Mr Wallace spoke of the Government 's economic strategy in Scotland ‘ sinking beneath the waves , ’ and Mr Mullin expressed concern that ‘ Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK ’ . |
| 11 | Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK . ’ |
| 12 | The programme is being followed up by a series of seminars linking the projects thematically ( ie training , financial services , and the professions ) . |
| 13 | For example , he may be faced with a frightening object which he does not wish to go past , and yet is being urged on by his rider . |
| 14 | Oyston sees the north being reduced to Third World status , and is alarmed that the country is being taken over by foreign investment . |
| 15 | The 54-year-old is being lined up by Roker boss Malcolm Crosby as assistant manager , and the appointment is expected to be ratified at a board meeting on Wednesday . |
| 16 | AGREEMENT on a long-awaited pan-European takeover and mergers code is being held up by West Germany , consumer affairs minister , John Redwood , claimed yesterday . |
| 17 | But a decision whether nitrate contamination of water is to be reduced by curbs on land use or by treatment with untried technology is being held up by a conflict in Whitehall on whether farmers should be compensated for income losses resulting from land use controls ’ . |
| 18 | At a meeting in Harare of African finance officials in July 1989 , it was argued that development is being held up by the tendency for government policy-makers to be involved in short-term crisis management for structural adjustment programmes , and responding to the demands of large numbers of foreign advisers . |
| 19 | The removal of frontier controls is being held up by failure to harmonise VAT and excise duties . |
| 20 | Now the facilities management contract is being held up by Mr as an example for the property out-sourcing . |
| 21 | He says that the fire is being held in by the collapsed roof , they want to let air get to it so it will burn itself out . |
| 22 | They say reading and writing tuition is being squeezed out by other subjects . |
| 23 | A further change in the nature of the labour market is being brought about by the decline in the strength of the trade unions . |
| 24 | Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths said : ‘ The Chancellor is being walked over by the manufacturers . |
| 25 | The two-year study is being carried out by Prof Michael Griffin and colleagues at Southampton University 's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research . |
| 26 | The work on producing the polarised atoms is being carried out by William Happer in the physics department at Princeton . |
| 27 | The pilot study is being carried out by Aids expert Professor Jonathan Weber and results are due by the end of 1993 . |
| 28 | The first new homes on the development , which is being carried out by Brentwood-based Countryside Properties , are due to be completed in the autumn . |
| 29 | By the blurring of the division between those needing residential care and those needing nursing home care this privatisation is being carried out by stealth and is often not recognised by those working with elderly people . |
| 30 | I am writing to ask for the co-operation of your Institution in a survey of Language in Teacher Education which is being carried out by the NCLE . |