Example sentences of "being [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 2 | Unaware that they were being treated to a rhetoric bath , foreign reporters demanded a translation , whereupon Mohamed Salam , a Lebanese AP staffer , turned to them with grim cynicism . |
| 3 | the honourary member continues er are we being treated to a rerun of the speech made recently because I think it would be more appropriate if the honourable member discussed the orders tonight , otherwise there will be a bit a pruning from the chair . |
| 4 | So much volcanic material was blasted into the stratosphere that the world was still being treated to a series of spectacular sunsets more than three years afterwards . |
| 5 | But if you 're anxious to get rid of it sooner , you should see your doctor with a view to being referred to a dermatologist . |
| 6 | The financial year-end of Reed is being altered to a calendar basis from the old March year-end ; the company forecasts for calendar 1992 , which relate only to Reed International , are incorporated in Table 5 . |
| 7 | Since the 1981 Education Act ( see Chapter 4 ) came into force in 1983 , children assessed as having special educational needs are given an individual ‘ statement ’ of these needs instead of being assigned to a category of handicap ( see Chapter 3 , 1978 Warnock ) . |
| 8 | Even in 1981 this occurred , to some extent , with the president 's budgetary plans being modified to a degree that a British prime minister would regard as wholly intolerable . |
| 9 | After proctors of the lower clergy had objected in 1269 to being committed to a grant simply by the assent of the bishops , a council of prelates in the next year agreed on their own behalf to a subsidy of one twentieth for the king , but only extended it to the rest of the clergy after approval by diocesan synods . |
| 10 | Diana , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , hopes the boat will encourage more disabled people onto the water . |
| 11 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
| 12 | It developed into rheumatoid arthritis , but being confined to a wheelchair did n't stop Jackie marrying and bringing up three children . |
| 13 | The local authority appealed against that part of the order by which the justices purported to direct that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continued involvement with L. on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had no jurisdiction to attach a condition to the care order which had been agreed by the parties and approved by the justices ; ( 2 ) in the alternative , the justices had no jurisdiction to make the direction , because ( i ) it had the effect of fettering the discretion of the local authority in the exercise of its functions under section 33 of the Children Act 1989 , and ( ii ) the justices had no power to order the guardian ad litem to ‘ have continued involvement ’ once the proceedings had been concluded by the making of an order under section 41 of the Children Act 1989 ; and ( 3 ) the justices had no jurisdiction to make a direction which anticipated a further application before the court , the justices power to give directions in respect of future applications being confined to a prohibition of further specified applications under section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 14 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |
| 15 | This argument was to be proved wrong as on the bore hole being drilled to a depth of 376 ft 11in , the surrounding wells were flooded , water also running away flooding the pit . |
| 16 | As a result we are given one of the most blatant examples of a blonde floozie being added to a film purely for box-office considerations . |
| 17 | We have instances of extra noughts being added to a number : 2 Samuel 10:18 reads " 700 chariots " , 1 Chronicles 19:18 reads " 7,000 " . |
| 18 | He went on to Kensington Grammar School before being articled to a surveyor in the City of London . |
| 19 | By the 1920s Frank Hender had bought it and installed a small brass finishing workshop on the upper floor , the lower section being let to a Mr Thompson for shoe stiffening manufacture . |
| 20 | This was started next to the Blind Beggar pub in 1808 , and by 1809 it was being leased to a man called John Hoffman . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) Where on a complaint being made to a licensing board by any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act the board is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so , it may , in accordance with the provisions of this section , suspend a licence . |
| 22 | If you think an allusion is being made to a Greek or Roman myth , you can try Lemprièe 's Classical Dictionary or some other dictionary of Classical mythology . |
| 23 | ( 5 ) A payment being made to a Doctor or Hospital under the Emergency Treatment provisions of the Road Traffic Acts it shall be borne : — |
| 24 | Another five were said to be ‘ very poorly ’ after being transferred to a hospital specialising in infectious diseases . |
| 25 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool where he remained for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 26 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 27 | Surveys are now showing that many people would prefer not to be treated if continuation of their life means being strapped to a machine . |
| 28 | All he remembered was being strapped to a couch , the sudden fear , the cold touch of electrodes to Lis head , and the convulsive shock before the blackout . |
| 29 | Instead of a young person being sentenced to a period in custody , which means that it is all too likely that he or she will continue in a life of crime , become a professional criminal and never get out of the criminal world , the alternative makes both moral and economic sense . |
| 30 | Another recent innovation is that of biotechnology , which involves the use of organisms ( especially bacteria ) in industrial and technological processes and which is being applied to a variety of environmental management problems such as waste treatment . |