The phrase "are being modernized" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is changing to be more up-to-date and modern. For example, "Many factories are being modernized to increase their productivity."
Mechanical systems are being modernized and upgraded, Mr. Jarmel said, and windows will be replaced with energy-conserving restoration models in the same style as the existing windows.
It is the centerpiece of a $31 billion network of major transport lines either planned or under construction to carry oil from the middle part of the continent to refineries in Texas, Oklahoma, and Illinois that are being modernized and expanded at a cost of more than $20 billion.
Besides new systems (e.g., Galileo, Compass), the existing ones (i.e., GPS, GLONASS) are being modernized.
"We are making the Asia-Pacific more secure with American alliances -- and an American force posture -- that are being modernized to meet the challenges of our time," Rice said.
"We are making the Asia-Pacific more secure with American alliances -- and an American force posture -- that are being modernized to meet the challenges of our time," Rice declared.
At the same time, the fleet of single-warhead Minuteman III's, stored in underground silos across Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota, is being modernized to improve accuracy and reliability.
Already, the Copa Libertadores is being modernized: The final has been shifted to November from May, so that the time difference to Europe is not so extreme, and it is being played on the weekend, rather than on weeknights.
In a separate letter, an official at the Thai Ministry of Public Health added a revealing detail: the government of Thailand felt that the country would benefit from the study regardless of the results, since its scientists were gaining experience with HIV, its laboratories were being modernized, and general awareness of HIV/AIDS was rising.
The sisters were placed in reserve several times during the 1920s while they were being modernized.
