Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases , incentives are being given by management to workers who disassoc disassociate themselves from the unions , leading to hostility and antagonism within the workplace between workers who have traditionally been united in furthering industrial relations . |
| 2 | Throughout , the activity of the crowd is being examined in relation to findings on conventional political participation . |
| 3 | This point is also being registered in relation to sexism in schools ( Wolpe , 1989 ) and has provoked a more general rethinking of educational processes in which poststructuralist theorizing is beginning to exercise a belated , but in my view welcome , influence ( Walkerdine , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | The fact that progress appears to be being made with respect to MNC environmental scanning practices should not be overly comforting to MNC executives . |
| 5 | Jonas Savimbi , leader of UNITA , announced on Oct. 20 that the movement 's general headquarters was being transferred from Jamba to Luanda . |
| 6 | All over Europe it remained the one really insoluble problem and archbishops and bishops from Lund and Tournai in the north to Arles in the south of France and Gniezno in the east were ordered to deprive incontinent priests of their benefices and stop clerical benefices being transferred from father to son . |
| 7 | We also use the word because it has the connotation that the information that we are concerned with is being transferred from environment to enterprise , actually to be used ( good heavens ! ) — by specific users in specific contexts for specific tasks , and is not being transferred just because it seems a nice thing to do . |
| 8 | They also both attempted to obtain Tour Cards last year and failed , but neither have relaxed despite being prevented from returning to amateur competition during the past year . |
| 9 | In part , these beliefs may be acquired through childhood ‘ socialisation ’ , being transmitted from parent to offspring . |
| 10 | These include specialist drugs , such as erythropoietin and growth hormone , being moved from hospital to primary care , mostly because hospitals are cash limited and primary care budgets are not . |
| 11 | Figure 6.2 shows these ratios for four levels of education : first , achieving five or more O-levels ; second , gaining two or more A-levels ; third , applying to , and fourth , being accepted for admission to university . |
| 12 | He suffered a flashback , an out-of-place reel from an old dark house horror movie , or maybe a nightmare being offered for psychoanalysis to Ingrid Bergman . |
| 13 | The 30-foot long skeletons are being offered for sale to museums and wildlife centres , including some in the UK , where conservationists are calling for an embargo . |
| 14 | Thai intelligence sources say up to 200 saw mills , many run by Japanese or Taiwanese companies , are still functioning in Cambodia and processed timber is being exported by sea to Japan , Singapore , Vietnam and Thailand . |
| 15 | One thinks here , for example , of noun phrases being used in response to wh-questions . |
| 16 | With more sophisticated design procedures under CAD , the balance of costs is clearly being shifted from manufacture to design and it becomes more important for cost accountants to use their cost analysis at the design phase ( i.e. the ex ante use of activity-based principles discussed earlier ) . |
| 17 | They are presented in order to illustrate some similarities and differences in the way the Cockcroft recommendations are being interpreted in relation to assessment and are not intended as a review of all the initiatives currently being undertaken . |
| 18 | ‘ Old people are being herded from place to place because of the whim of the county council . ’ |
| 19 | The 21-year-old Edwards , London born , and once on Brighton 's books , was tossed out by Spurs this summer after being farmed without impact to Reading and Peterborough . |
| 20 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |
| 21 | I stood on the winner 's rostrum swathed in the Union Jack , the photographers ' light bulbs flashing , the crowd clapping , cheering , other Union Jacks being waved from side to side . |
| 22 | And because they were prepared to go out and speak about their faith people were being converted from Buddhism to Christianity in their thousands . |
| 23 | Last Friday after a court appearance he was being taken by taxi to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | Mr Lennon was treated at the scene by a team of paramedics before being taken by ambulance to Wigan Royal Infirmary . |
| 25 | New escape : A 22 year old prisoner was on the run today after escaping from Group 4 guards in Derby while being taken from court to jail . |
| 26 | A little scared , very curious , ravenously hungry and ready to argue the toss with anyone after being passed from person to person like so many yards of parcelled muslin . |
| 27 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 28 | People have just had enough being thrown from pillar to post . ’ |
| 29 | and alternative transport modes being promoted in addition to rail . |
| 30 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |