Example sentences of "is being [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be emphasised that nothing unusual is being stated here . |
| 2 | As your duly elected Mayor , let me assure you that the situation is being examined very closely . ’ |
| 3 | This part of the task is very slow and time-consuming and if more than one plate is being constructed then they could be clamped together and all be drilled at the same time . |
| 4 | This is because the state is expanding as the unit of international society , and is being called on to take responsibility for the welfare of its citizens in a wider range of areas . |
| 5 | The Government is being called on to draft in extra staff at a top security jail where violence against prison officers is escalating . |
| 6 | A Chief Constable has ordered a full inquiry into allegations of improper conduct by his officers , and an independent investigator is being called in . |
| 7 | However , the left , broadly defined , is being courted rather than spurned . |
| 8 | I occasionally lecture at the Hogeschool in Holland , where the talent is now exceptional , and a new mood is being defined out of a profound rejection of wearing your logo/status/money on your sleeve . |
| 9 | Okay , so a capacitor is being charged up . |
| 10 | The team is being supported by from outside consultants Andersen Consulting . |
| 11 | Stena Sealink chairman Rudolph Agnew said : ‘ The tunnel is being supported directly and indirectly by government , British and French , in both road and rail investment . |
| 12 | This is being born again to a new hope . |
| 13 | THE Star Wars technology of lasers is being applied increasingly in hospital theatres . |
| 14 | Recent indications are that hard look is being applied less intensively than hitherto . |
| 15 | The data suggest that the care programme approach is being applied more at the level of higher dependency , despite the fact that it is ‘ prescribed ’ for all people accepted by the psychiatric services . |
| 16 | Music played in many hotels and restaurants is being played illegally , according to Phonographic Performance Limited ( PPL ) , the company which issues one of the two licences necessary to play pre-recorded music . |
| 17 | Alternatively , if sound is being played back , it will be interrupted by a search for , say , some further text . |
| 18 | The foreground of Burton 's life is so vivid that it is easy to forget the dramatic and hugely influential background against which it is being played out . |
| 19 | While this comedy of errors is being played out , the central element of the president 's programme , a five-year package of measures designed to reduce the federal deficit by almost $100 billion , is in danger of being rejected on Capitol Hill — by members of the party he is supposed to lead . |
| 20 | A dark , sinister masque is being played out and we do not know whom to trust . |
| 21 | Figures for 1991 reveal that this sort of tradgedy is being played out all over the south of England . |
| 22 | ‘ I am a neighbour , and she is being troubled again by … yes , yes , thank you very much . |
| 23 | But something else is being minced here . |
| 24 | It 's been cut again , as a result of your Government 's policies , so the technology and the support that we need to go into Europe to win in Europe to help industry is being strangled once again by your Government . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , we the wise , to quote Erving Goffman ( 1963 ) are allowed increasing manpower to pursue the cannabis/hallucinogenic using folk devil and to present the incompetent and the inept from the hippie element to the courts and the public for their solace ; and to assure them that drug taking is being stamped out . |
| 26 | " The fashion for voluntary mutilation is being stamped out , Auguste . |
| 27 | But then information from appraisal is being fed back centrally anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ They will know the game is being televised all over Europe and they will give everything because of that . |
| 29 | The next step is to ensure that they are receiving all the State benefits to which they are entitled ( a subject we shall be examining in more detail later in Chapter 5 ) and that any capital they have is being invested wisely and safely . |
| 30 | To ensure that any capital she may have is being invested wisely . |