Sentence examples for are being sunk from inspiring English sources
New oil wells are being sunk.
If the publishers' budgets are being sunk into luring already-prominent names, there will inevitably be a horde of brilliant unknowns, tapping away at their keyboards, forever unheard.
The first phase of an underwater sculpture park has also been completed: 400 sculptures by British artist Jason de Caires Taylor are being sunk off the coast in the Caribbean waters of the National Park West Coast of Isla Mujeres Puerta Cancú*and Puerta Nizuc, to create an artificial reef and spectacular diving opportunities.
When all this comes to an end, bears aver, the market rally could peter out.The shift by state-owned investment funds has undoubtedly boosted prices, says Kathy Matsui of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, but it has also made the government more exacting about corporate governance at the firms into which public pension pots are being sunk.
The message of Mr. Fox's "Gasland Part II" is that while the battles over the investigation and regulation of fracking wax and wane — with the anti-regulatory forces currently on top — thousands of additional wells that use this controversial natural-gas drilling technique are being sunk.
After foot-and-mouth disease, tuberculosis outbreaks and the heaviest rainfall since the 17th century, it seems that Londoners will now have to get used to some more unusual sights.All over the capital, boreholes are being sunk to pump out the water that threatens to engulf London from below, just as large tracts of Sussex and Kent were submerged by the water from above at the end of last year.
A barge was being sunk to block off a bayou, sending water out into marshland rather than into populated areas.
Khan said: "I'm worried London is becoming the go-to destination for the world's dirty money and it's being sunk into London's property market.
Boris Johnson's former commissioner for cycling, Andrew Gilligan, said this week that the programme was being sunk by council's unwillingness to close off streets to rat-running traffic.
He pointed beyond the volleyball court to where an outdoor swimming pool for employees was being sunk into the compound's northwest corner.
At the rear of the building, which began as the nation's first cancer hospital and was converted to a nursing home in the 1950's, the foundation for a sleek adjoining 25-story tower is being sunk.
