Example sentences of "being [vb pp] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finniston admits that being plunged into the deep end of commercial decisions he inevitably made mistakes in the early stages , although he is not prepared to take the blame entirely . |
| 2 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what research is being undertaken into the use of straw as a renewable source of energy . |
| 4 | Metered dose inhalers should be carried with their safety caps on to prevent foreign bodies entering them and being propelled into the bronchial tree when they are discharged . |
| 5 | As Summerson remarks of London , the Reform Bill of 1832 marked the final end of that tradition , and thereafter ‘ social responsibility was gradually shaken out of the aristocracy without being shaken into the bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 6 | Anyone on the verge of being clapped into the loony bin as one more pathetic case of cold coffee dementia can telephone the firm free and be saved . |
| 7 | ’ This conclusion is contemporary with the abandonment of Sweeney Agonistes and with Eliot's ' being received into the Church of England . |
| 8 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 9 | One senior representative of an existing cash & carry said that MAKRO will ‘ obviously pose a threat ’ , not only to that trade but also to supermarkets , which will be hit by trade being diverted into the MARKO ‘ discounting ’ — through holding one of the membership passports . |
| 10 | On 11 March 1812 he volunteered for the San Domingo ( 74 guns ) , probably to avoid being pressed into the navy . |
| 11 | Or perhaps you 'd find being hounded into the ground by an amateur detective positively rib-splitting ! ’ |
| 12 | Silicon Graphics ' endeavour to produce a floating-point intensive R4000 part by next year in conjunction with Toshiba Corp , called TFP ( UX No 380 ) , is being re-integrated into the MIPS unit , taking some 40 Silicon Graphics engineers along with it . |
| 13 | So the exact er nature of this balance and how waters between contact with the atmosphere are being mixed into the deep sea , cos remember this equilibrium can only be occurring in surface waters cos only they are in contact with the gas phase how that turnover of deep water 's occurring affects just how much capacity we 've got for absorbing C O two in the oceans and therefore mitigating the greenhouse effect . |
| 14 | For centres , it shows that significantly more ‘ customers ’ are being attracted into the advanced courses system . |
| 15 | When trying to describe these facts , we find ourselves being sucked into the language of phenomenology with its core assumption that our experience consists of shifting mosaics of raw experiential data - colours , feelings of pain , desires , glimpsed movements … |
| 16 | Unlike a petrol engine with a throttle , or accelerator , to vary the amount of fuel and air being sucked into the engine , diesel works on the principle that air in a cylinder will , if it is compressed , heat enough to ignite fuel without the use of a spark plug . |
| 17 | Once in place , the dividing mesh allows the water to circulate normally through the aquarium , but is still fine enough to prevent young fry from being sucked into the filter . |
| 18 | There are over 1,000 miles of public footpaths and bridleways within the national park boundaries and with vast numbers of walkers being sucked into the Lake District and Peak District , finding a quiet spot is rarely difficult . |
| 19 | One of the problems of the economy was the level of its resources that were being sucked into the long-running colonial war in French Indo-China , a war which France could not win and one which was effectively concluded by the humiliating surrender in May 1954 of the cream of the French army at Dien Bien Phu . |
| 20 | Plastic Grids were placed in the bottom of the main vat to stop the fish from being sucked into the pump inlet . |
| 21 | Clouds of dust swirling around and slowly being sucked into the middle — like bath water going down a plug-hole . |
| 22 | He knew that he was being sucked into the Prison of Hostages , for it is to that great and awesome dwelling that is not quite in the world of Men but not quite out of it that all soulless ones must go . |
| 23 | Even while speaking , he was shrinking , either in real terms or because he was being sucked into the distance ; darkness made it hard to differentiate . |
| 24 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 25 | Hayboxes were being carried into the principal rooms by the Mess staff , direct from the cooks back in the château . |
| 26 | We had a great sense of family responsibilities being carried into the work place . |
| 27 | He asked for a little restorative brandy , then saw a baker 's tray of delicious cakes being carried into the inn 's side-door . |
| 28 | He saw the hearse arrive and watched the two coffins being carried into the church . |
| 29 | Large quantities of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen are being emitted into the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels and industrial processes , and these gases are being converted into strong acids ( sulphuric and nitric ) which lead to many areas experiencing precipitation of a very low acidity . |
| 30 | Quite apart from concern over the traces of solvent often left behind in absolutes , we can not ignore the environmental effects of solvents being discharged into the atmosphere and possibly being absorbed by distillery workers . |