Example sentences of "[adv] being [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was constantly being compared to Brando , and vice-versa , which outraged him , and now Jimmy Dean was being hailed as the new Clift and the new Brando . |
| 2 | Faxes are constantly being sent to dealers , accountants and solicitors across the country offering investment prospects in anything from : |
| 3 | Certain cases dominate the coverage in the national press , and by using these cases it is possible to indicate how the images of sex beast are constantly being preferred to readers . |
| 4 | In these days of high land values and intensive land use it is comforting to the conservationists among us to see areas such as Threipmuir Common being designated as a Site of Special Interest and thus being left to nature . |
| 5 | Bugs at Wilton 's terephthalic acid plant are already being treated to Purisource , which is suitable for a range of effluents from many industries , including food , paper , pharmaceutical and chemicals . |
| 6 | The breed was already being exported to South Africa in the 1940s to improve the native cattle and it adapted well to a variety of climates and management systems . |
| 7 | The region finally being exhausted to Gould 's satisfaction , the couple returned to Sydney . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't get over your not being related to C. G. W. Peacock , ’ Rogers said . |
| 9 | I 'm concerned that er people are not being brought to justice . |
| 10 | This occurred for a number of reasons : laparoscopy became a widely used diagnostic tool , with diagnosis no longer being restricted to patients with disease severe enough to warrant laparotomy , and gynaecologists became aware of the myriad visual appearances of endometriosis which represent evolution of the disease through visually distinct stages to the relatively inactive classic blue-black lesions . |
| 11 | I do not want to disappoint the hon. Member for Eastbourne , but the chances of a local income tax are nil , because his party does not have a cat in hell 's chance of ever being returned to government . |
| 12 | It derives too from the emotional dynamic , the mood sinking into a black hole of a middle section with cries on the brass alternating with eerie undulating woodwind passages , and gradually being restored to serenity . |
| 13 | A Prague-based magazine , Respekt , reported in January that Yugoslavia was the intended recipient of some US$1,500 million-worth of guns , rifles and anti-tank missiles ostensibly being sold to Nigeria . |
| 14 | Similarly , early humans are always portrayed as hunters , surviving largely on a diet of meat , and this interpretation is still being taught to schoolchildren . |
| 15 | The court has introduced an extra day 's sitting , but the clerk of the court confirms cases are still being adjourned to dates five weeks ahead . |
| 16 | ( Carse is still being recommended to students in the recent literature . ) |
| 17 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 18 | Thus , patients were not always being admitted to hospital and , when admitted , had not always been referred to a psychiatrist . |
| 19 | So my music winds up being exposed to Michael Bolton 's audience and people like that . |
| 20 | Arrangements are also being made to copyright the handbook and include it on the ‘ Barbour Index ’ which will result in the four publishing organisations receiving royalties . |
| 21 | Consideration is also being given to issues associated with the profile of the University 's staff by sex , ethnic origin , and grade , and this work is expected to develop further in relation to the University 's equal opportunities policy . |
| 22 | Increasingly , environmental biotechnology is being heralded as a means of controlling and improving environmental quality and it is also being applied to mineral extraction and resource recycling . |
| 23 | He was also being subjected to cat-calls and ridicule . |
| 24 | Deals are also being offered to companies as alternative incentive perks to top performers . |
| 25 | A similar creolisation of Western painting , however , is also being attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat , the late graffiti writer turned painter now celebrated in a Whitney Museum retrospective , ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.10 ) . |
| 26 | Work handled in London and Ipswich is also being switched to Lytham as part of a reorganisation that will see all the administrative and servicing work for life and pensions handled in Lancashire . |
| 27 | Nasser 's father belonged to this growing social stratum , running a post office in Alexandria when Nasser was born and later being transferred to Khatatba , a poor village on the edge of the delta . |
| 28 | It is a compulsive stop for cars and coaches , the large parking places on the roadside often being taxed to capacity , but despite the inevitable crowds , Eilean Donan should be on the itinerary of all who pass this way . |
| 29 | This was to meet a navy habit of sitting ‘ on the deck ’ when not otherwise engaged , the floor often being preferred to seats . |
| 30 | Rhinos are also now being relocated to sanctuaries which are surrounded by high voltage fencing . |