Example sentences of "[is] be [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barratt 's salary was increased in April that year to £250 , with John Taylor 's being stepped up to £120 . |
| 2 | It 's being sent out to the public through the post with no attempt to spare her pride or hide her name . |
| 3 | He 's being posted out to the West Indies and he 's asked her to marry him and go with him . |
| 4 | Tommy 's being taken out to the car . |
| 5 | erm Obviously , as it 's being passed on to groups , we ca n't make any decision at the moment on whether we think it 's a good thing or not , we do n't get the opportunity to endorse it all , like today . |
| 6 | This is because the state is expanding as the unit of international society , and is being called on to take responsibility for the welfare of its citizens in a wider range of areas . |
| 7 | The Government is being called on to draft in extra staff at a top security jail where violence against prison officers is escalating . |
| 8 | It is being kept up to date by members of the Employer Contacts Group . |
| 9 | THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept down to the bare minimum in an attempt to ease the town 's homes crisis . |
| 10 | The 800,000 square foot plant is being leased back to the management team . |
| 11 | Mueller is taking over the plan , and Don is being transferred back to the States . |
| 12 | This is clearly linked to Part 1 , since what is being projected on to the person with an impairment by ‘ able-bodied ’ culture is in itself changing . |
| 13 | THE debate on ways in which Merseyside might benefit from up to £1bn in EC grants is being opened up to a wider audience in a novel fashion later this month . |
| 14 | ‘ The fact that this is being paid up to 1996 is not good news , ’ said Mr Nutting . |
| 15 | ‘ The match is being beamed back to White Hart Lane and you always want to look good in front of the cameras . ’ |
| 16 | In the door of the shop stands the owner , with the Company 's Ration Warrant Officer conducting individual qualitative and quantitative checks on what is being loaded on to the vehicle . |
| 17 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 18 | Xtra , the process by which X/Open Group Co Ltd 's hopes to determine what users want from open systems , is being handed over to those very users in the shape of the X/Open User Council . |
| 19 | A survey is being carried out to measure and assess jockeys heart and metabolic rates while race riding and Graham Bradley went out to ride Goodshot Rich in the Fairview New Homes Novices Chase wearing an assortment of electronic measuring equipment . |
| 20 | This is being passed on to customers at no extra cost . |
| 21 | A hot potato is being passed on to the courts and ministers are safe in the knowledge they can hold up their hands and say : ‘ We tried everything we could ’ . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Mike is being put up to this by his lawyer , ’ he told friends . |
| 23 | Their current job , to calibrate RAF runways , is being put out to a private company at East Midlands Airport . |
| 24 | As the BSI 's Chris Sheldon , says : ‘ The challenge for many companies is that a new aspect of business life , the environment , is being entered on to the balance sheet for the first time . |
| 25 | The top deck is being lowered on to the bottom deck of Standard 152 by this unusual structure outside the Blackpool Works , after the new car 's arrival from Motherwell in 1925 . |
| 26 | Yeah so the big thing about this is is getting up to date getting yourself understanding the terms when he says cos squared when he says simple har when he says S H M you think yeah . |