Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the last century , when repairs were being carried out to embankment walls enclosing the loch , a Pictish canoe hewn from a single , solid piece of wood was dug from exposed silt . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was interest in the film being transferred on to video and the John S. Cohen Foundation had agreed to meet the initial costs . |
| 5 | The south coast of Devon bulges into the Channel between Exeter and Plymouth as if being pushed out to sea by the bulk of Dartmoor and reaching out towards France . |
| 6 | The diagram is therefore drawn on the computer screen with the aid of a mouse instead of being drawn on to paper or a plastic sheet . |
| 7 | A Farnham Lane resident who did not wish to be named said that he was strongly opposed to any footpath being opened up to traffic . |
| 8 | Many of its responsibilities are currently being handed over to Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) — independent companies , consisting mainly of local groups of employers , who will contract with the government to plan and provide training , and promote small businesses and self-employment , in their area . |
| 9 | A separate scanner program , called SCAN.EXE , is available which allows individual modules to be scanned at any time without the user being logged on to LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Government is being called on to draft in extra staff at a top security jail where violence against prison officers is escalating . |
| 12 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 13 | It begins with an attempted rape and a murder , contains scenes of spine-chilling horror when the murder victim 's marble effigy comes to life in the graveyard and then accepts its murderer 's invitation to supper , and ends with the unrepentant libertine being dragged down to hell by demons . |
| 14 | Despite his boasts of political eminence in England , the Leader of the British National Socialist Party had a dread of being bundled off to internment in Silesia as an undesirable alien . |
| 15 | On the next page of the sketch-book is a picture of her being borne up to heaven by cherubs , much in the style of the concluding illustration of The Old Curiosity Shop . |
| 16 | The renewed interest in alternative fuels and feedstocks has revived coal gasification and the old technology is rapidly being brought up to date . |
| 17 | Both syllabuses and examinations were being brought up to date , and he was in the forefront of the new developments . |
| 18 | His solicitors were only told at 9am he was being brought back to court . |
| 19 | The old stone pillars were shaking as if they were being brought back to life . |
| 20 | Instead of being lured up to Whit 's room with you and erm other people |
| 21 | Erm a little bit of steam around so you do get an impression that it 's erm you know , it 's alive and working obviously not doing a day 's work , but certainly being restored back to working condition . |
| 22 | Other Ketamine users also report being plugged in to information networks while in K cyberspace . |
| 23 | It 's a great place for beginners to learn as the harbour has shallow water — only 40ft at its deepest point — with constant winds and protection from being swept out to sea . |
| 24 | A HELICOPTER from RAF Valley on Anglesey was scrambled yesterday to help rescue three young canoeists who were in danger of being swept out to sea . |
| 25 | The scene closed with judge and prisoner bowing solemnly to one another , and the latter , after spending half an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom , being led off to prison wreathed in smiles . |
| 26 | This uncertainty need not prevent the action being run up to setting-down provided the liability issue and special damages to date can be reasonably particularised and the plaintiff 's injuries described . |
| 27 | It will be based on Lamarclusm and other inarticulated ‘ internal ’ factors , with random Mendelian segregation being cut down to size . |
| 28 | That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels . |
| 29 | ‘ The next thing I remember was being taken off to hospital . |
| 30 | Peter Morgan remembers being taken out to lunch at the Trocadero and visiting Cadby Hall , the headquarters of J. Lyons . |