Example sentences of "is [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this is been shared by lines int it ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Within religions of Indian origin , such as Hinduism , Buddhism and Sikhism , certain views of reality being as it is are taken for granted , such as dharma — the existence of a moral law , and karma — the impact of this on individuals according to how much they fulfil or fail to fulfil dharma , and samsara — the process of reincarnation . |
| 4 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |
| 5 | We do not wish to deny that the tendency to act aggressively may have a biological basis , that is be related to some heritable feature , and explicable from the point of view of evolutionary advantage . |
| 6 | No doubt the good doctor will always do the right thing , but can what the right thing is be stipulated in advance or written down ? |
| 7 | Well I said what he ought to do tonight , is be going to bed and have an early because do you know every flipping |
| 8 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 9 | Technologically-induced change in these areas is being examined for its impact on employee well-being and performance . |
| 10 | The work areas required in main storage are relatively small as only one record is being examined at any one time . |
| 11 | Like all areas of our business , hotelware is being examined at present and until a plan for the future has been determined we will continue to maintain our activity in hotelware . |
| 12 | The model is generally used to assist with enquiries into the effectiveness of information provision , but could form the basis for an engineered system in appropriate circumstances ( ie where a particular set of processes is being examined in detail ) . |
| 13 | Throughout , the activity of the crowd is being examined in relation to findings on conventional political participation . |
| 14 | Sources within the Stock Exchange confirmed yesterday that the sudden pre-bid surge in the traded options market is being examined by an insider dealing investigation team which looks at suspicious activity ahead of the release of price-sensitive information . |
| 15 | The case is being examined by government scientists who are investigating whether the disease can pass between generations and , if so , what is the statistical likelihood of this happening . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In France , a 450-acre golf development is being constructed between Avignon and Aix-en-Provence . |
| 19 | The data base of the project is being constructed from a wide range of sources , including reports , documentation on the development of the Political Studies Association , and interviews with early members of the association . |
| 20 | What exactly is being defended against ‘ the other ’ , identified with the immigrant strangers ? |
| 21 | It would be tempting to say : what is being defended against strangers is jobs , and there is a certain truth in the proposition . |
| 22 | All of a sudden this certainty is being called into question by dramatic changes in public opinion , and also by new pressures greatly to expand the EEC . |
| 23 | What is being called for is that graduates should have gained the beginnings of the ability to stand back from their studies and to take a view of it . |
| 24 | Now an investigation is being called for to find out what has happened to the money . |
| 25 | Will the Secretary of State recognise that now his party is being called to the debate , not the Opposition ? |
| 26 | The truth is being evaded by … ‘ |
| 27 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 28 | A simple model of human face recognition based on work by the grant holders and other British groups is being employed as a framework within which to design and interpret experiments . |
| 29 | ( iii ) In the above definition of addition it seems that the + sign which is being defined ( that is , the one between the brackets ) is being defined in terms of itself ! |
| 30 | And the reason for those is the iron in the blood is being oxidized by various substances in the body , it 's being broken down into a form in which the body can reabsorb that iron , and during the process you go through all these colour changes because of the different forms of iron oxide being produced . |