Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him . |
| 2 | IV ) , each being developed with reference to the trinitarian structure of God 's own being as Father , Son and Holy Spirit . |
| 3 | For instance , it may be legitimate to generalize from a finite list of observation statements referring to litmus paper turning red on being immersed in acid to the universal law , ‘ Acids turn litmus red ’ , or to generalize from a list of observations referring to heated metals to the law , ‘ Metals expand when heated ’ . |
| 4 | The effects of the measures on accidents in Buxtehude have already been described , with serious injury accidents down by a third and considerable financial savings being made in addition to the more important human ones . |
| 5 | They say the chance to turn their lives around is being threatened by cuts to the centre 's funding . |
| 6 | On this model the fixed junctions are the sources of load for the network , such loads being transferred along chains to the free junctions , moving them in accordance with the strain . |
| 7 | That man was being transferred from Dartmoor to the Isle of Wight . |
| 8 | If the module being read is a FOREIGN module , it should be noted that this results in the header file plus all the files defined in the module being transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's directory . |
| 9 | Here is the reassurance which will be needed by those of you who have already begun to imagine a procession of sweaty limbs being uncovered in church to the discomfort of all . |
| 10 | Those drastic price cuts instituted by Univel Inc last week ( CI No 2,128 ) are being seen as response to the nervousness engendered by Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market . |
| 11 | They are now being prepared for presentation to the Royal Statistical Society . |
| 12 | We are all too familiar with the sad spectacle of seeing overcrowded , listless goldfish , thoroughly out of condition , if not actually diseased , being offered for sale to the unsuspecting public . |
| 13 | HPI has also warned of a dramatic increase in the number of stolen vehicles being offered for sale to the used car trade . |
| 14 | Rance tried to convince Aung San of British goodwill but he replied that when Dorman-Smith had first returned ‘ there was more goodwill being shown by Burmese to the British than ever before ’ . |
| 15 | This needs to be placed at the angle which gives the best support for the material being used in relation to the pupil 's vision , and some initial experimenting with different angles of work may be needed in order to settle on this . |
| 16 | In therapeutic doses ( up to 4 g a day ) paracetamol undergoes glucuronidation and sulphation in the liver with only a small amount being metabolised by cytochromes to the toxic metabolite N -acetyl- p -benzoquinone imine , which is inactivated by hepatic glutathione . |
| 17 | In the beginning , only coal was transported on the line but by 1814 passengers were being conveyed from Kilmarnock to the coast at Troon , at weekends and on holidays . |
| 18 | But disenchantment set in because the outdated Merlin ( used for the Avro Tudor and Canadair Four ) clearly had little future , and the more rewarding prospect of a senior job on the new Dart engine ( destined for the Vickers Viscount ) kept being thwarted by delays to the project . |
| 19 | Conversely , while lacking those powers an asexual bud , or even a severed flatworm fragment , can do what an unfertilized ovum can not : namely , produce a whole organism without interactive collaboration with any other part ; this power being credited by Darwin to the presence in such a bud or fragment , indeed in any healing flesh , of material determining growth for all the parts of the whole organism . |
| 20 | The system is being introduced in response to the Government 's Citizens ' Charter which laid down that every resident with a problem about a particular public service should have access to a well publicised complaints procedure . |
| 21 | Insurance benefits , being linked through contributions to the level of wages , have until recently kept pace with inflation better than other benefits . |
| 22 | He said the money being spent on repairs to the Dolphin Centre could eventually be recouped through litigation . |
| 23 | In this he perhaps sounds like a member of a Leavisite ‘ reverent-openness-before-life ’ school , but his concept of ostranenie already has a certain edge through being defined in opposition to the habitual . |
| 24 | KIWI referee David Bishop has had an exciting year , what with being ‘ congratulated ’ in the Parc des Princes tunnel by Daniel Dubroca and then being asked whether he minded being wired for sound to the whole stadium for the Springbok-Wallaby clash at Newlands . |
| 25 | But a tantalising fragment of a thirteenth Ransome novel envisages the three Death and Glory boys stowing away in a cruiser which is being sent by road to the Lake in the North . |
| 26 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 27 | These transcripts are being analysed with reference to the origin of and nature of the knowledge used , the reaching of a consensus , and the social dynamics within the group . |
| 28 | In this project , the economies of the process of adaption to reduced demand in industrial markets is being studied in relation to the experience since 1973 of the steel industries in the European Communities , the United States and Japan . |
| 29 | As this extract indicates , increasing attention is being paid in Britain to the problems of the elderly . |
| 30 | In future years , it is quite possible that both husband and wife will enjoy a healthy level of pension in their retirement and that both will continue to derive a good income from their partner 's pension scheme when that partner has died — as a widow 's or widower 's pension being paid in addition to the continuing pension from his or her own scheme . |