Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small planning group is being formed to organise a grand reunion of as many former staff , pupils and friends of the school as possible . |
| 2 | Mr Gibson said that procedures were being examined to prevent a recurrence and the incident was one in a million . |
| 3 | In other words , any three such elements in a hierarchy must be capable of being arranged to form a continuous chain : |
| 4 | The government was being pressed to hold a full enquiry . |
| 5 | National Certificate Modules and Higher National Units in the training of trainers are currently being revised to provide a pre-vocational qualification for those considering a career in training . |
| 6 | ‘ The most resistant and decisive discourse within modernism ’ , abstract painting , despite its coming-of age , is gradually being redefined to encompass a range of diverse media and approaches which are no longer limited to the strict confines of paint on canvas . |
| 7 | The laryngeal mask is being modified to produce a version that may afford better protection against aspiration , and this may extend its applications still further . |
| 8 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 9 | RONALD PERELMAN , the former corporate raider who heads the Revlon cosmetics empire , is being tipped to take a significant stake in Shearson Lehman , Wall Street 's second largest broking firm . |
| 10 | Ronald Perelman , the former corporate raider who heads the Revlon cosmetics empire , is being tipped to take a significant stake in Shearson Lehman , Wall Street 's second largest broking firm . |
| 11 | Gateshead Council is being recommended to approve a new poll tax of £271 . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's the rush ? ’ a harried clerk had asked when Caroline had tried to talk her way into being permitted to enter a summer class that was already under way . |
| 13 | A prudential practice is instrumental in nature , being designed to achieve a specific substantive purpose . |
| 14 | One may therefore think of an innovation in teaching methods as being designed to achieve a set of intentions ( eg , changes in pupils ' ways of thinking ) by means of a set of processes which are usually only rather coarsely determined . |
| 15 | Long range Trigat is being designed to make a diving attack on the roof of a tank , where the armour is normally at its weakest . |
| 16 | ROYAL intervention is being sought to stop a major North-East sports ground being sold to a supermarket firm . |
| 17 | Members from all areas in accounting and audit are being sought to join a group to help influence the development of electronic data interchange in a way that takes into account the profession 's requirements in the UK and Europe . |
| 18 | Concerning the question of enhancing the role of the institutions of the Community , the Foreign Secretary made the point that work was being done to establish a more active role for national parliaments in considering Community legislation in line with the strong tradition of the Westminster and Danish parliaments . |
| 19 | A LAST-DITCH effort is being made to save a Bishop Auckland residential home from closure . |
| 20 | Appointments have been made to the Directorship of the School and to the newly established Peter Moores Professorship of Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first Academic Director of the School ) , and arrangements are being made to fill a Readership in Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first MBA Director ) . |
| 21 | A MOVE is being made to form a support group for a hospice . |
| 22 | Everyone is asked to bring their Teddy ; an attempt is being made to create a new record for the largest gathering of Teddy Bears and 1,075 are needed . |
| 23 | However , many people in the industry feel that the linking of these two centres of population and commerce will be secured in the near future and already marketing efforts are being made to secure a new operator . |
| 24 | The Soviet defence minister , seeking to justify the action , claimed that organised attempts were being made to establish a ‘ dictatorship of the bourgeois type ’ in the area ; the Lithuanian president , Vytautas Landsbergis , saw the conflict as a result of the ‘ fifty-one year confrontation between Lithuania and the USSR ’ , and the Russian president , Boris Yel'tsin , more forthrightly described it as an ‘ offensive against democracy ’ . |
| 25 | When Molly went to the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 to translate for nuns from the college in Shanghai , recent graduates from the Medau Schule came to teach with Peggy , and plans were being made to establish a Medau Training College in England . |
| 26 | Harry began shouting , which was not at all surprising , as he was easily provoked and was being made to look a fool . |
| 27 | She hated even more being made to look a fool . |
| 28 | Otherwise the whole squad will go to Essex and Oxford , and efforts are being made to organise a match against Oxfordshire to occupy the Durham players not selected for the University match . |
| 29 | I have a feeling an attempt was being made to convey a sort of message — this in practical terms I duly received . |
| 30 | To understand the conceptual framework of his contemporaries , we must look first at the efforts being made to uncover a pattern of development among the fossils . |