Example sentences of "was be [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under her skilled hands a snake of clay was being coiled into the shape of a large globular jar . |
| 2 | The change of Manager in 1974 coincided with Local Government Reorganisation which provided an opportunity for Derek Hyde , a Lancashire man himself , to leave Coventry City Transport which was being absorbed into the West Midlands PTE and come to Blackpool . |
| 3 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 4 | Everything in Jean-Claude 's life had been decided before he met me , and I was being fitted into a preordained pattern . |
| 5 | In any case fear of the spread of communism reinforced the belief that Asia , too , could benefit from the treasure that was being poured into Europe by way of Marshall Aid and , as Wolf concludes : ‘ It is fair to say that the desire to avoid ‘ another China ’ no less than the desire of the Administration to avoid further Congressional attacks on its Asian policy , determined the timing of US aid to Southern Asia . ’ |
| 6 | And because also that it was er partly the , the directors ' money that was being poured into it at that time , we knew all these things , and they were expecting a , a return back from it . |
| 7 | It would not make any difference if fluid was being poured into the funnel , but if the arrow traced the path of a ball-bearing dropped into the funnel then the baffle plate would speed up the descent of the ball into the tube part of the funnel , In the same way structural changes need to take account of what is to pass through the structure . |
| 8 | He was unaware that a Garda inquiry was being conducted into the allegation , he added . |
| 9 | His head buzzed and sang as if power was being fed into it . |
| 10 | The Koreans have become increasingly angry that the tour was being turned into a war between the royal couple . |
| 11 | There was increasing anger that the trip was being turned into a war between them . |
| 12 | She and Mr Singh had visited the school for a Christmas event and had been pleased to hear that Balbinder was being moved into the second class . |
| 13 | This whole world was being plunged into a dreadful silence . |
| 14 | US intelligence sources , who revealed the deal at a time which coincided with a visit to the USA by Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir ( see p. 36599 ) , alleged that Libyan pilots were receiving training in the Soviet Union to fly the planes and that a Libyan Il-76 transport plane was being converted into a refuelling tanker . |
| 15 | On BBC news on 23 November last year the Prime Minister said ’ One of the difficulties we got into with the community charge was being bounced into decisions before they were fully thought through and before we knew precisely how they would affect people . ’ |
| 16 | As Larry Speakes , the president 's press spokesman , put it , ‘ I always had the impression that … as ( Ollie ) flew across the country he could visualize a camera on him , and although nobody knew who he was and his mission was secret , the whole thing was being made into a movie . ’ |
| 17 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 18 | He was coaching his local swimming team when police told him his car was being broken into . |
| 19 | Resentment was always present when parents felt either that there was a lack of openness or frankness on the part of the professionals or administrators , or that they were being coerced , or that their concern for and about their child was being called into question . |
| 20 | As regards Labour 's traditional connection with the industrial working class , this was being called into question by the changing social composition of both the parliamentary party and the constituency organisations . |
| 21 | The mortuary van had moved closer to the rim of the hollow and the stretcher was being manoeuvred into place . |
| 22 | She was obliged to wait a few minutes while a Land Rover was being manoeuvred into the empty space beside her and then , with a start , she saw the driver . |
| 23 | A moment later , that icy coldness was being pushed into her , and she realised it was an ice cube that he was inserting into her sensitive channel . |
| 24 | This was a separate transaction from the auction and the auctioneers had not made it clear that the exemption clause was being incorporated into it . |
| 25 | At present , he said , money was being channelled into inappropriate services for them . |
| 26 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 27 | The title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , against which from the government benches I registered a lone protest upon the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill in March 1953 , enshrines a paradox which thirty years ago two countries in particular conspired for their own purposes to ignore : India , in order to become a republic while forfeiting none of the privileges which allegiance had conferred , and Britain , in order to feed its delusion that the Empire was being transformed into something brighter and better still . |
| 28 | Hysterical Alice , like the so-often hysterical Faye , was being doped into harmlessness . |
| 29 | It was being thrown into the presence of older people who thought we were bright enough to appreciate M. R. James at 11 , act in Shakespeare at 12 , sing Handel and Haydn at 13 . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the BSP was being driven into obscurity . |