Example sentences of "[be] [be] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're being sold out to our biggest rivals , just so Schreider Sterne Inc. can clinch another of their famous profitable deals ! |
| 2 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 3 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 4 | But with the help of Renfrew High School , 14 crates of books , pens and other equipment , including a computer , are being sent out to the African school . |
| 5 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 6 | We are being swept off to the right , towards a giant chunk of basalt in the river , and despite Sam 's frenzied efforts at the oars , we bounce into it . |
| 7 | We are being led back to Victorian times . |
| 8 | It takes just two minutes for a burglar to turn a home into a nightmare — in the city of Gloucester police are being called up to twelve times a day by families finding scenes like these . |
| 9 | All managers are being trained up to the standards of NEBOSH , the national examining body for health and safety in the UK , and by September 300 will have completed the full NEBOSH course . |
| 10 | Research shows very clearly that people recognize when they are being spoken down to , and they resent it . |
| 11 | That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels . |
| 12 | Pledges from around the world are being taken out to Rio de Janeiro ( courtesy of British Airways ) where they will be assembled into a symbolic Tree of Life at the heart of the Earth Summit 's activities . |
| 13 | A number of modifications are being carried out to the BBMF 's other Merlin engines to prevent a recurrence of this type of failure . |
| 14 | The repairs are being carried out to the bridge at Knayton and the inside lanes of both carriageways are closed . |
| 15 | The repairs are being carried out to the bridge at Knayton and the inside lanes of both carriageways are closed . |
| 16 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 17 | The memes are being passed on to you in altered form . |
| 18 | As a result , there are large bills to be paid — bills which are being passed on to ordinary community charge payers . |
| 19 | I was informed today that elderly people who are trying to get into hospital are being put on to wards in which the nursing staff have not been designated specifically for the care of the elderly . |
| 20 | In green houses all over the country prize blooms are being brought on to be at their best for next week 's Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 21 | New areas , previously protected , are being opened up to loggers , including the 35,000 hectare Tanah Laut Forest reserve , on the southern tip of Kalimantan . |
| 22 | Farmers are being offered up to £300 in grants to save 100 metres of hedgerow . |
| 23 | SMALL investors are being offered up to 16.25 million of the 27.5 million penny shares in Atreus , a newly-formed company making and marketing shower screens and bathroom mirrors , writes Clifford German . |
| 24 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 25 | The first story I wrote as a full-time reporter concerned the death of a local man who had been visiting friends in Indiana and whose remains were being sent back to Moose Jaw for burial . |
| 26 | He went , knowing that the fishermen were being sent back to Berwick with a boatload of provisions , and even some powder and ball , from Dunbar , with offers of more . |
| 27 | The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction . |
| 28 | Her eyes were on Theda 's in a look so compelling that Theda felt as if her mind were being dragged out to be read . |
| 29 | The airlift had now stopped and people were being moved on to Myitkyina , hoping to get a plane there . |
| 30 | NVA barracks and training areas were being handed over to the government for civilian use as rapidly as possible . |