Example sentences of "be [being] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're being transferred to the Correctional Labour Colonies , but you wo n't be classified as a foreigner , you wo n't be in the foreigners ' camp . |
| 2 | ‘ The cards are being sent to the Welsh Office for Mr Redwood 's attention in batches as we are able to sort them out into community areas , ’ said campaign secretary Bryn Williams-Jones . |
| 3 | The mineral phases predicted at equilibrium are being compared to the actual assemblage as a means of verification of the thermodynamic codes . |
| 4 | Will the Minister explain why , if the Environmental Protection Act 1990 is so wonderful , the Government are being dragged to the European Court for failing to comply with Community legislation on water standards and air pollution control ? |
| 5 | The training goals here are the same as in the previous schedule , with the difference that the muscles are being re-educated to the different rhythm of track running . |
| 6 | Both factors are being exploited to the full by the Socialists . |
| 7 | The optimum utilisation of space is constantly under review and the benefits of central timetabling of all lecture theatres and teaching rooms are being exploited to the full . |
| 8 | The reason why I have detained readers of New Scientist with such minutiae is that the ‘ Mink on Shetland ’ presents us with a case study of the way in which decisions affecting the wildlife of Britain are being left to the ephemeral whims of local personages . |
| 9 | About 5,000 colonists have already moved into the 300,000-hectare Arara reserve , and thousands more are being attracted to the new town and sawmill . |
| 10 | MILLIONS of small investors are being lured to the latest £5b sell-off of BT shares with a first instalment as low as £180 plus a package of discounts or other incentives . |
| 11 | Resources are being mobilized to the best of their ability , and that is not enough . |
| 12 | Two optional extra days are being added to the overall programme both to be held at . |
| 13 | Many of these buildings are now considered to be of special interest by current standards — particularly where they possess ‘ group value ’ — and are being added to the statutory lists as these are revised . |
| 14 | More than 13,000 bundles of brushwood , harvested by coppicing hazel and willow trees , are being supplied to the National Rivers Authority through the Anglian Woodland Project which is supported by the region 's county councils . |
| 15 | At times urban policy debates take place in a context where almost all agree that the wrong answers are being offered to the wrong questions . |
| 16 | Even at eight this morning the finishing touches were being applied to the temporary portacabin Holy Trinity school in Chipping Norton . |
| 17 | That how that their policies were being applied to the whole society . |
| 18 | Koreans were being sent to the Soviet Union for aircrew training and were sent back to North Korea when their efficiency had reached a satisfactory level . |
| 19 | Gate takings from designated provincial matches were being given to the Patriotic Fund , the first lists of killed and wounded were being published , and , as the season drew to a close , newspaper pages were filled with the photographs of the casualties from Gallipoli , New Zealand 's bloody initiation into modern warfare . |
| 20 | In fact , petitions — which are scarcely known before 1272 — quickly became so numerous that by 1280 most were being redirected to the appropriate departments of royal government ( the exchequer and the chancery above all ) and only the remainder were dealt with by the king . |
| 21 | It was also claimed that files were being handed to the Soviet authorities thus countering efforts by a citizen 's committee to supervise the dismantling of the Stasi . |
| 22 | Slovenia and Croatia had introduced their own currencies in October and December respectively , and new banknotes of the Yugoslav dinar were being issued to the other republics to prevent them being flooded with unwanted currency from Slovenia and Croatia . |
| 23 | RSFSR Prime Minister Silayev complained to Lithuania and Estonia that their pricing policy violated inter-governmental agreements since , as a consequence of the price rises , cheaper foodstuffs were being exported to the Baltic from the RSFSR . |
| 24 | Inside the shrine wall-paintings showed the young king of Meroë with his feet resting on lines of bound prisoners ( one of them possibly a Roman legionary ) who were being subjected to the same indignity . |
| 25 | Will he ensure specifically that the Home Secretary gives an assurance that no pressure or persuasion is being applied to the Metropolitan police in the case of Mr. Mohinder Paul Singh Bedi of Hayes to halt their inquiries or withdraw requests to investigate the bank accounts of Members of Parliament who have business or other links with Mr. Bedi ? |
| 26 | The reader should note the analogy ( similarity ) to the domestic funds flow concept explained in Chapter 1 , now it is being applied to the international economy . |
| 27 | Ingres is being ported to the Topsy loosely-coupled computer at the London City University 's Parallel Applications Centre : Topsy runs a distributed Unix-compatible kernel called Meshix , and uses Motorola 68030 or MIPS R3000 chips . |
| 28 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept to the bare minimum in a bid to ease a housing crisis . |
| 29 | However , as time goes by and the problem of unemployment does not seem to diminish more thought is being given to the specific problems of those applying for work while out of a job . |
| 30 | Strathclyde Regional Council may provide further funding and consideration is being given to the possible employment of a part-time nurse . |