Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 2 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 3 | Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad . |
| 4 | The war of words between the two parties often reflected this sense of historical continuity , the roots of the divide frequently being traced back to the 1640s . |
| 5 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 6 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 7 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 8 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 9 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 10 | The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series . |
| 11 | Following the data which was being projected on to the tiny screen , it was clear that the telemetry and guidance modules had performed according to specification . |
| 12 | Sir John bellowed back , and continued up the wide thoroughfare , past a group of nightbirds , whores and petty felons now manacled together and being led down to the great iron cage on top of the Conduit . |
| 13 | The receiver gave out two faint clicks as the call was bypassed into the central monitoring system before being shunted through to the appropriate department . |
| 14 | This measure was intended to eliminate corruption and prevent unrecoverable loans being passed on to the Central Bank . |
| 15 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 16 | Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders . |
| 17 | This little corn mill was certainly still being worked up to the late 1920s . |
| 18 | But with the help of Renfrew High School , 14 crates of books , pens and other equipment , including a computer , are being sent out to the African school . |
| 19 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept down to the bare minimum in an attempt to ease the town 's homes crisis . |
| 20 | The top deck is being lowered on to the bottom deck of Standard 152 by this unusual structure outside the Blackpool Works , after the new car 's arrival from Motherwell in 1925 . |
| 21 | She said that while the carrot of jobs was being held out to the local community , local people would only be used for the most menial of tasks . |