Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst these variations are important I shall focus this discussion mainly upon the more common examples , where support is being given by one person to another . |
| 2 | Certainly the Athenians were technically justified in accepting the neutral Corcyra as an ally , despite Corinthian claims that the Thirty Years Peace provisions about neutrals did not envisage their being enrolled by one side to the intended detriment of the other ( as if international treaties usually have anything to say about the future state of mind of the signatories ! |
| 3 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 4 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 5 | CRITICALLY ill patients are being moved from one hospital to another in a desperate search for hospital beds , a medical expert revealed yesterday . |
| 6 | Next , it might be said that although Locke was in the business of trying to explain communication in terms of ideas being conveyed from one mind to another , now we know better . |
| 7 | Mr Sproat was followed by Sir Roger Moate , who took up the theme , objecting ‘ to money being distributed under this scheme to those who do not need it and to giving tiny sums to the many who do need it . |
| 8 | ‘ A person shall , so long as he is , and for twelve months after he ceases to be , a member of a local authority , be disqualified for being appointed by that authority to any paid office , other than to the office of chairman or vice-chairman . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the Templars continued meeting in secret , each coven acting like a small community , the mysteries of the Order being passed from one generation to another . ’ |
| 10 | Though the system is quite helpful to divorcees , it does involve the assumption that women are a piece of property being passed from one man to another ! |
| 11 | However , in the process of being passed from one office to another Joyce was making contacts who might prove of some use . |
| 12 | Ken said he saw the play in the way he saw all comedy ‘ like a ball being thrown from one place to another ’ . |
| 13 | Like every other step she has taken , this — her most ambitious yet — is being planned with painstaking attention to detail . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) Fees determined by the Secretary of State under subsection ( 1 ) above shall , on being paid by any applicant to the board , be paid over by the clerk of that board to the council which defray the expenses of that board . |
| 15 | In almost every society we know something about , except perhaps the very simplest , there are individuals who specialize in music or who are regarded as more skilled ; in this respect , notation brings about not a total change but an added stimulus , and even without it , there can develop — as in blues or in British ‘ folk ’ traditions — an idea of particular songs being attached in some way to individuals : ‘ that 's X 's song ’ . |