Example sentences of "are being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , these catalogues are being checked from the point of view of identifying items relating to public policy changes and the availability of the full text of these items is being tested . |
| 2 | Guide to Country Pubs says many are being ruined by the introduction of video games and other modern forms of entertainment . |
| 3 | Up to 50 drugs are being tested on the cancer cells from the blood of leukaemia patients in Bath . |
| 4 | More than half the British troops in Germany are being withdrawn over the next four years , which will inevitably put more pressure on UK training areas , making the removal of the MoD from national parks even less likely . |
| 5 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 6 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 7 | ‘ The rafts are being pushed from the river . ’ |
| 8 | Wild species are in fashion and are being snatched from the countryside . |
| 9 | With this , hundreds of solutions are being kicked round the world and that 's why I like it . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This 3-man team has been in post for three years and results are being seen on the ground . |
| 12 | Mergers , especially between banks serving the same area , are being seen as the swiftest route to big cost savings ; these , in turn , free up capital . |
| 13 | Full details of the NVQs are being given in the CIOB 's continuing series of seminars for centres and other interested organisations . |
| 14 | The present system frequently results in simple cases being set before the High Court while much more complicated issues are being decided by the county courts . |
| 15 | With both visual estimation and point counting techniques it must be remembered that values are being computed from the two dimensions of the thin section into the three dimensions of a sediment for modal composition . |
| 16 | Increasing numbers of patients , however , are being diagnosed in the elderly . |
| 17 | The USA and the UK announce that naval vessels are being sent to the Gulf . |
| 18 | The fuel rods were originally destined for the now-defunct nuclear reactor at Kalka ; they are being sent to the UK for storage because it is cheaper . |
| 19 | ‘ The cards are being sent to the Welsh Office for Mr Redwood 's attention in batches as we are able to sort them out into community areas , ’ said campaign secretary Bryn Williams-Jones . |
| 20 | The mineral phases predicted at equilibrium are being compared to the actual assemblage as a means of verification of the thermodynamic codes . |
| 21 | All packages from here for London are being diverted to the Riyadh office for a day before they go forward . ’ |
| 22 | Recommendations from energy experts for sharp cuts in energy consumption by refrigerators are being ignored by the European Commission , which is seeking to reduce fridge and freezer energy consumption by 10 per cent by 1 January 1997 . |
| 23 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 24 | It is believed they are being questioned about the Baltic Exchange bomb , the explosion the same day at the Staples Corner motorway junction in North London and other offences . |
| 25 | At the same time schools are being placed in the front line of accountability by the proposal to give headteachers and governors direct control of budgets and the opportunity to opt out of LEA control . |
| 26 | Now I think that the whole school meals issue , not just this , but also the way in which cost savings are being achieved at the moment in schools . |
| 27 | The investigation tests whether the benefits desired by different groups are being achieved through the Community Technical Aid project . |
| 28 | Interchanges are being arranged with the Chinese and with a group in Paris also pursuing microsimulation . |
| 29 | While some aspects of education provision are being centralised in the course of reform , the management of staff is being decentralised . |
| 30 | Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same force majeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market . |