Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first case , each text is given its own header , with any material common to all texts being factored out to an overall corpus header . |
| 2 | He 's being posted out to the West Indies and he 's asked her to marry him and go with him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 5 | It was in fact a large room divided in two , one half being given over to the mistress 's wardrobe and dressing stool , with the pier-glass in the corner , the other providing a small chamber with room only for a cot bed . |
| 6 | Parking was horrendously difficult , the off-street parking being given over to the Volvos , Rovers and BMWs of the conference-goers . |
| 7 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
| 8 | Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad . |
| 9 | Replacement equipment was being flown out to the rig from the helicopter 's base at Aberdeen . |
| 10 | The war of words between the two parties often reflected this sense of historical continuity , the roots of the divide frequently being traced back to the 1640s . |
| 11 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 12 | But they found that a tremendous amount of grain was lost by being shed on to the stubble . |
| 13 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 14 | In part this is the result of photosynthesis which is pumping oxygen into solution but again primarily it 's down to the physical saturation due to breaking waves and air bubbles being mixed in to the system . |
| 15 | At last they reached the station and watched the milk being lifted on to the train . |
| 16 | He remembered clinging frantically to the stirrup-leather , and being lifted back to the saddle-bow and comforted . |
| 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 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |
| 19 | A number of modifications are being carried out to the BBMF 's other Merlin engines to prevent a recurrence of this type of failure . |
| 20 | The repairs are being carried out to the bridge at Knayton and the inside lanes of both carriageways are closed . |
| 21 | The repairs are being carried out to the bridge at Knayton and the inside lanes of both carriageways are closed . |
| 22 | When completed in about 18 months time , the stations , which are about four miles apart , will stop raw sewage from three outfalls that serve 42,000 people being discharged on to the foreshore . |
| 23 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 24 | They have gradually refined their techniques over the years , with additional factors , such as ley length , continually being built in to the equation . |
| 25 | The 800,000 square foot plant is being leased back to the management team . |
| 26 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 27 | Mueller is taking over the plan , and Don is being transferred back to the States . |
| 28 | Sir Alexander Seton was not in the least upset about being transferred down to the town . |
| 29 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 30 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |