Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 2 | Eight out of twelve Members , however , welcomed the extensive coverage being given to select committees , and some would like even more . |
| 3 | The college was founded as a radical , even visionary institution , being intended to widen women 's culture and thus their whole lives , rather than merely provide vocational training for future governesses . |
| 4 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 5 | In addition , self-assessment checklists are being developed to assist centres to decide their readiness for devolved responsibility , and more general staff development material for centres is being looked at . |
| 6 | However , we found in practice that in different runs very similar contigs were generated , the differences between runs being confined to contig breaks and to regions in the probe order where the probes were repetitive . |
| 7 | A special clinic is being organised to give employees the chance to take a big step towards being someone else 's chance-in-a-million . |
| 8 | They point to hundreds of disaffected Labour voters being attracted to protest meetings . |
| 9 | Tranmere 's fear is that a move inspired by the Pools companies , who pay the League a great deal of money each year , will result in clubs being forbidden to switch fixtures away from the traditional Saturday except where television or the Police demand otherwise . |
| 10 | In other commercial sectors , rents are being slashed to find leaseholders , with the first five years of many office leases offered rent free . |
| 11 | First , they were treating babies as adults , that is to say , by a direct attack on the origin of disease with no distraction being permitted to treat symptoms . |
| 12 | Parliament should give fresh thought to enacting a provision placing an obligation upon a council tenant to give notice to the council before being permitted to commence proceedings . |
| 13 | Adobe will use Verity 's Topic document-retrieval engine in future products based on the Carousel document system , which is being designed to enable users to communicate electronic documents between MS-DOS , Windows , Unix and Macintosh systems , regardless of the application or computing environment used for creation . |
| 14 | The query structure is being designed to enable users to find information using near-natural language commands , and will include artificial intelligence technology to automate search routines by making assumptions from experience on user preferences . |
| 15 | Procedure before the industrial tribunal is relatively simple , being designed to make applications easy to process without legal advice , and the rules of evidence are not strictly applied by the tribunal . |
| 16 | Tomorrow marks the start of National Otter Weekend , to highlight all the work that 's being done to bring otters back to our riverbanks . |
| 17 | Visiting the Isle of Man for the RCM in November 1940 , William Simpson was impressed with the efforts being made to give youngsters an education , though he was anxious that an ‘ English ’ influence should be maintained . |
| 18 | MOVES are being made to plant trees on a grass verge in an effort to stop gipsies setting up camp . |
| 19 | At the nearby Dalek outpost preparations are being made to receive emissaries from seven planets , and orders are given by the Black Dalek to hunt down and exterminate the Earthmen known to have landed on Kembel . |
| 20 | The better deal would be , not being transported up and down the country , and not being made to perform tricks that are un unnatural to their own behaviour patterns . |
| 21 | Attempts are therefore being made to assess activities and processes in more natural settings , either real or simulated . |
| 22 | Urgent efforts are being made to revive courses in Liverpool and Brighton , where educational PR events have been planned for Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 December respectively . |
| 23 | The physical process of tendon repair is now well documented and efforts are being made to find drugs which speed up or modify the repair process . |
| 24 | A judge said it is the duty of the courts to support any attempts being made to prevent crimes of that nature . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ It is the duty of the courts to support any attempts being made to prevent crimes of this nature . ’ |
| 26 | The Ingliston management is discussing with Lothian Region Transport the provision of a shuttle bus service from Edinburgh city centre and arrangements are being made to run coaches from Aberdeen , Dundee , Perth , Kirkcaldy , Glasgow , Kilmarnock and Ayr . |
| 27 | An attempt is also being made to standardise textures and symbols where possible . |
| 28 | In spite of this , new efforts are still being made to encourage enterprises in the more advanced regions to make direct investments in the less developed regions . |
| 29 | The Stanford School of Medicine ( which has some 8000 animals in stock ) and the University of California-San Francisco claim that ‘ the legislation creates a great irony by increasing the number of animals which each year will be euthanased instead of being transferred to research facilities . |
| 30 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |