"To be" and its functions. "To have" and its functions

IV Read the following sentences and say which of them are in the Active and which are in the Passive Voice. Translate them:

1. While the experiment was being carried out nobody left the laboratory.

2. A new type of computing equipment is being produced at our plant.
3. At present scientific work is being done mostly by large groups of researchers.
4. The apparatus will be working when you come.
5. The scientists who are carrying out research into nuclear physics deal with the most difficult problems.
6. For twenty minutes the air in the laboratory was being purified by two ventilators.
7. The solar battery is converting the energy of sun rays directly into electric energy.
8. This experiment was being carried out under low pressure.
9. For a long time the electronic devices were being used for control.
10. An interesting research in the field of electronics is being done at our Institute.
11. Prospects of the usage of solar energy are already understood by everybody.
12. Now solar energy is being studied by a lot of research groups.
13. Scientists and engineers are developing new types of electronic and cybernetic devices.
14. We were looking for a more simple method of solution but could not find it.
15. The engineers will discuss the advantages of this new system.
16. Our laboratory is housed in an old building.


V. Translate the following word-groups. Pay attention to the tense-forms of the predicates:

The problem occupied; the century began; they are obtaining; the scientists understood; the satellite was on its orbit; the property depended; the program is being broadcast; the physicist was searching; a new radio set was demonstrated; the elements constituted; the man thought; new results are being obtained; the chemist wrote; the discovery established; the particle became; the scientist was applying; the point of view differed; the engineer is measuring; the concept explains; the idea was supported; the particle will be divided; the phenomenon was explained; astronomy is studying; the telescope is built; the power plants were being controlled; the observation shows; the energy was converted; the data will be checked.