Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] one [noun] 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 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 4 | CRITICALLY ill patients are being moved from one hospital to another in a desperate search for hospital beds , a medical expert revealed yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | However , in the process of being passed from one office to another Joyce was making contacts who might prove of some use . |
| 9 | Ken said he saw the play in the way he saw all comedy ‘ like a ball being thrown from one place to another ’ . |