Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The sounds of what was going on in the box were being relayed out into the laboratory where Gedanken was , but nothing happening in the laboratory was getting through to the beetles in the box .
2 ‘ It 's asking for trouble when people are being turfed out into the street and have paid to come to a club until 2am .
3 He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground .
4 It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire .
5 And she could n't bear the thought of being sucked back into the ebb tide of loneliness again either .
6 Bye-laws 17 , 18 and 22 deal with back-siphoning : wherever a cold water supply is connected to a flexible hose , the law insists that the tap or outlet is fitted with a non-return valve to prevent contaminating liquids being sucked back into the mains system by any fall in pressure .
7 The risk of disease being carried down into the soil could be extremely serious .
8 A New York police spokesman said : ‘ An investigation is being carried out into the disappearance of the money .
9 The money will be spent on extending and modernising its Portrack sewage treatment works at Stockton , resulting in ‘ significantly ’ cleaner water being discharged back into the River Tees .
10 This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again .
11 The build up of cytosolic calcium inhibits further release through its inhibitory effect on the release channel and the cytosolic calcium is removed by being pumped back into the stores or out of the cell ( Fig. 4 d ) .
12 In the case of the breeding aquarium , even when gravel tidies are employed , the fry can end up being drawn through into the gravel , and lost .
13 In another vicious new twist , deliberately misleading telephone warnings resulted in crowds being shepherded straight into the path of the second device .
14 All weapons are cleaned and examined before being locked back into the armoury , then personal kit can be dealt with .
15 When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning .
16 Dr Mowlam , whose office is in the heart of Redcar 's bedsitland , said home-buyers were being dragged down into the morass .
17 New life is being breathed back into the Crab at Ian Riley Engineering 's Kirkby base .
18 Over the top , down the outside of the wheel , like being flung out into the night : dangling queasily in space then dropping like a brick .
19 But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity .
20 Badgers which have been the victims of cruel baiters are being introduced back into the wild .
21 You thought that might lie behind Mahmoud being brought back into the Zoser case .
22 One way of overcoming this is by spinning a large-area sample of the solid in the laser beam , so that any individual spot is irradiated for a short time only , and is able to cool before being brought back into the beam .
23 As he drew to a halt in front of the boomgate he thought about the unacceptable quantities of low-level toxic waste being expelled daily into the atmosphere by avaricious chemical companies with scant regard for the safety and welfare of future generations .
24 Down below , fires are being lit and the cattle are being driven gently into the enclosures of thorn bushes .
25 However , it is vulnerable to wind noises , especially if the shot is being taken right into the weather .
26 Some of the thirteen hundred workers had to be evacuated TWICE after being allowed back into the factory too soon .
27 Some archer fish are able to line up their prey so precisely that it falls directly into the water below , and within easy reach of the fish , instead of being knocked inconveniently into the distance .
28 The brands were something all Ixmaritians received before being sent out into the world , but only Por Tanssie conducted the procedure without anaesthetic and proper medical care .
29 As part of Doctor 's research the char is painlessly tagged before being released back into the lake .
30 Most types of glider should be showing a very small amount of rudder being held on into the turn .
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