Example sentences of "[being] [verb] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what research is being undertaken into the use of straw as a renewable source of energy . |
| 3 | As Summerson remarks of London , the Reform Bill of 1832 marked the final end of that tradition , and thereafter ‘ social responsibility was gradually shaken out of the aristocracy without being shaken into the bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 4 | ’ This conclusion is contemporary with the abandonment of Sweeney Agonistes and with Eliot's ' being received into the Church of England . |
| 5 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 6 | One senior representative of an existing cash & carry said that MAKRO will ‘ obviously pose a threat ’ , not only to that trade but also to supermarkets , which will be hit by trade being diverted into the MARKO ‘ discounting ’ — through holding one of the membership passports . |
| 7 | On 11 March 1812 he volunteered for the San Domingo ( 74 guns ) , probably to avoid being pressed into the navy . |
| 8 | Or perhaps you 'd find being hounded into the ground by an amateur detective positively rib-splitting ! ’ |
| 9 | Silicon Graphics ' endeavour to produce a floating-point intensive R4000 part by next year in conjunction with Toshiba Corp , called TFP ( UX No 380 ) , is being re-integrated into the MIPS unit , taking some 40 Silicon Graphics engineers along with it . |
| 10 | Plastic Grids were placed in the bottom of the main vat to stop the fish from being sucked into the pump inlet . |
| 11 | Even while speaking , he was shrinking , either in real terms or because he was being sucked into the distance ; darkness made it hard to differentiate . |
| 12 | Clouds of dust swirling around and slowly being sucked into the middle — like bath water going down a plug-hole . |
| 13 | There are over 1,000 miles of public footpaths and bridleways within the national park boundaries and with vast numbers of walkers being sucked into the Lake District and Peak District , finding a quiet spot is rarely difficult . |
| 14 | Unlike a petrol engine with a throttle , or accelerator , to vary the amount of fuel and air being sucked into the engine , diesel works on the principle that air in a cylinder will , if it is compressed , heat enough to ignite fuel without the use of a spark plug . |
| 15 | He knew that he was being sucked into the Prison of Hostages , for it is to that great and awesome dwelling that is not quite in the world of Men but not quite out of it that all soulless ones must go . |
| 16 | When trying to describe these facts , we find ourselves being sucked into the language of phenomenology with its core assumption that our experience consists of shifting mosaics of raw experiential data - colours , feelings of pain , desires , glimpsed movements … |
| 17 | Once in place , the dividing mesh allows the water to circulate normally through the aquarium , but is still fine enough to prevent young fry from being sucked into the filter . |
| 18 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 19 | We had a great sense of family responsibilities being carried into the work place . |
| 20 | He asked for a little restorative brandy , then saw a baker 's tray of delicious cakes being carried into the inn 's side-door . |
| 21 | He saw the hearse arrive and watched the two coffins being carried into the church . |
| 22 | Large quantities of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen are being emitted into the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels and industrial processes , and these gases are being converted into strong acids ( sulphuric and nitric ) which lead to many areas experiencing precipitation of a very low acidity . |
| 23 | There is also an insight into the laboratory where all the incoming wheats are tested before being discharged into the silos and subsequently cleaned . |
| 24 | The Natural Resources Defense Council claims that , even if beaches met the EPA standards , 19 out of 1,000 swimmers would develop gastro-enteritis , largely as a result of untreated sewage being discharged into the sea . |
| 25 | G. suspects that there may be sugar being discharged into the water . |
| 26 | River pollution is the main source of the zinc , copper and lead being discharged into the seas around Britain , the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has confirmed . |
| 27 | Documents leaked to The Observer purport to reveal that radionuclides , which have been associated with cancer , are being discharged into the sewage system from 750 locations in the Thames region , including hospitals , universities and industrial sites . |
| 28 | Meanwhile professional advisers , both directly and through their managers , address changes that affect prescribing in primary care with regional health authorities , purchasers , and providers ; among these changes will be better information systems between secondary and primary care so that patients being discharged into the community have their medicines available and that ‘ at risk ’ patients are identified : pharmaceutical services must follow the patient . |
| 29 | Quite apart from concern over the traces of solvent often left behind in absolutes , we can not ignore the environmental effects of solvents being discharged into the atmosphere and possibly being absorbed by distillery workers . |
| 30 | The inquiry heard that a tube rupture at the Ginna PWR in the US last year ended with radioactivity being discharged into the atmosphere . |