Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Most importantly , it should be cheaper than some grandiose schemes being floated to bring back the age of sail . |
2 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
3 | It is to be hoped that everything possible is being done to bring forward the safety regime as quickly as possible . |
4 | The performance of dance and drama attended during the inspection of Matagalpa Prison was a good testimony to the efforts being made to draw out the creativity and self-expression of the prisoner . |
5 | This afternoon frantic efforts were being made to sort out the confusion . |
6 | The twist mop is a modern development of the socket mop with the handle being twisted to wring out the mop . |
7 | He had a brother , Richard , who was later to play an important part in the family 's advancement in Rome , being destined to take over the running of the Conti estates in the Romagna . |
8 | The lay judges , like Stanhope and Stirling , on the other hand , must have been well aware of the realities of the situation , and that there was little chance of the prize-winners being commissioned to carry out the work . |
9 | Marshals had gone over to the rioters , and Yggdrasil had had to override their control of the andrews being used to put down the insurrections . |
10 | Only by having fought every battle and won can we be free from the constraints of being used to act out the wheel of life and be truly ourselves . |
11 | It is , however , not surprising that this is the case since the same data are being used to derive both the laterality index and the total accuracy score . |
12 | The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire . |
13 | Community groups are now being trained to carry on the work started by AREPP . |
14 | After being trained to guide safely the dogs are transferred to a guide dog mobility instructor , who continues the training in increasingly complex environments . |
15 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
16 | ‘ Conservation is being asked to take on the burden of social policies for rural Britain . ’ |
17 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
18 | There should also be deleted the reference to the landlord not being required to insure where the tenant has failed to pay the insurance rent , although any landlord in its right mind would do so in any event . |