Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] by [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to comply with the directions being given by Mr to our client to rearrange his finances , your client 's letter in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead in which to put your finances in order . |
| 2 | Being told by Mazzin to be tidy was infuriating , but our anger soon dissipated . |
| 3 | Conversely , while lacking those powers an asexual bud , or even a severed flatworm fragment , can do what an unfertilized ovum can not : namely , produce a whole organism without interactive collaboration with any other part ; this power being credited by Darwin to the presence in such a bud or fragment , indeed in any healing flesh , of material determining growth for all the parts of the whole organism . |
| 4 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |
| 5 | Randolph Churchill reported a similar sentiment as being expressed by Macmillan to Home : ‘ … |