Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existing HNC in Social Care is being revised to take account of the integration of health and social care SVQs . |
| 2 | With debts rising above £6.5m and spending money to be found for Kevin Keegan 's summer team-building mission , fans are being expected to pay part of the price of the club 's mismanagement . |
| 3 | That was why the Congress of People 's Deputies was being recommended to give priority to the government 's report on the economy . |
| 4 | At W H Smith , where attempts are being made to disperse authority to the outer reaches of the organisation , the company is hedging its bets by devising a guide to decision-making , which gives managers and employees some indication of the limits of their newfound freedom of action . |
| 5 | They know that even in the often dreary services some attempt , no matter how limited , is being made to make contact with the great mystery . |
| 6 | Can we imagine a GP being made to feel welcome in the Bloomsbury set ? |
| 7 | The England slalom team are collecting points in the Elf Sport In-Gear promotion , the points being used to purchase equipment for the team . |
| 8 | MasPar sees the combination being used to take care of the problems created by the need for economical storage , low-speed transmission and bandwidth multiplication for applications such as video-on-demand over telephone networks , direct broadcast satellite and cable television services , optical disk and Compact Disk Karaoke . |
| 9 | This is the main form of test currently being used to detect handicap in the unborn . |
| 10 | The use of successive pumice or ash deposits in building up a history of the eruptive activity in an area is known as tephrachronology , and this is increasingly being used to add precision to the study of the history of volcanic areas . |
| 11 | Production and publication of The Rock led directly to Eliot 's being invited to write Murder in the Cathedral , which took further his idea of committed Christian drama and his warnings about the dangers of a society cut off from its religious roots . |
| 12 | Police constables , station sergeants , inspectors and some higher ranks are all being asked to take part in the review , while the public in selected towns are to be asked questions about the police and whether the people 's needs are being met . |
| 13 | The secular clergy and the laity in the diocese are now being asked to take part in the consultation through the Senate of Priests , the Diocesan Pastoral Council and the ‘ Catholic Voice ’ . |
| 14 | 20,000 past and present employees of the Harwell laboratory are being asked to take part in the new survey . |
| 15 | But Mr Richardson said many Nupe members had money problems of their own without being asked to give money to the health service . |
| 16 | Another speaker made the point that the House was being asked to give power over the press to the presidency , not merely to its present incumbent , President Nyerere , who , he said , could be trusted not to abuse his power . |
| 17 | Gardeners are being asked to use bath-water in the garden and to water only at night to avoid losses through evaporation . |
| 18 | Members of the Cheshire County Council 's fire brigade and emergency planning committee are being asked to approve disposal of the old station at their meeting on Wednesday next week . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 20 | She was being asked to provide security for the debts of the company in order , as the bank knew , to advance her husband 's business interests . |
| 21 | Firstly the hole , if wet , was dried out with a swabbing stick and wadding and the charge was then poured in , care being taken to avoid spillage around the mouth of the hole . |
| 22 | CHILDREN are being encouraged to take part in the Cleveland Community Forest venture by planting young trees at the Middlesbrough Botanic Centre . |
| 23 | The plans are being reviewed to take account of the recent U.S. studies . ’ |
| 24 | At first , they gave every appearance of being determined to exclude Lothar from the Carolingian heartlands altogether . |
| 25 | The police were also being urged to take action against the practice of ‘ throwing coloured lights ’ from coaches that were returning from holiday excursions , and there was a growing concern about a wave of incidents in which obstacles — sometimes quite large ones — were placed on railway lines by people described as ‘ wreckers ’ . |
| 26 | CEREDIGION councillors are being urged to take action against the owner of Piercefield Farm , Penparcau , Aberystwyth , for illegal tipping . |
| 27 | Now a campaign 's being launched to fund research into the hedgehogs ' plight . |
| 28 | The festival , from Saturday to Monday , is being held to raise cash for the church repair fund . |