Example sentences of "[adv] [being] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchet man Steve Ballmer has been telling people that Windows NT will be available in May : meanwhile object-oriented Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 . |
| 3 | On the dawn of another new season ( England A play county champions Essex in a four-day match beginning at Lord 's on Monday , both sides apparently being restricted to eleven players ) it was uplifting yesterday to be reminded of the Grand Match . |
| 4 | The squashed chicken featured on the front of this year 's D & AD postal entry form in a photograph taken by Tomoko Yoneda ; the poor fowl was apparently being pinned to a padlocked door by a ghostly hand , and was accompanied by a typographical fiesta which was practically unreadable . |
| 5 | We are apparently being drawn to the end of time , to an apocalypse ( which will happen on 21/12/2012 ) at which point some of us will achieve a mystical transformation to a more enlightened realm of being . |
| 6 | As of February 1991 it was only being fitted to the 4,000 MW Drax station in Yorkshire , although applications to fit FGD equipment to two other stations had been presented by PowerGen . |
| 7 | However , if records are only being referred to , the position is different . |
| 8 | Investment advertisements that relate to a particular investment or investment services must , unless they are only being issued to non-private customers , contain specific contents . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the library services are then not only being promoted to the wider community but also genuinely reflecting and recognising that Britain is a multiracial society ’ ( * ) . |
| 10 | Professor Glennerster said that it was clear that the benefits won by GP fund holders were swiftly being transferred to the patients of other GPs , which is what we said would happen . |
| 11 | As the project will last for so many years , temporary improvements are constantly being made to the estate . |
| 12 | He was constantly being compared to Brando , and vice-versa , which outraged him , and now Jimmy Dean was being hailed as the new Clift and the new Brando . |
| 13 | Faxes are constantly being sent to dealers , accountants and solicitors across the country offering investment prospects in anything from : |
| 14 | In the 1830s and 1840s he enlarged the range of Suttons ' seeds to include vegetables and ornamental plants , with many new varieties of both groups constantly being added to those offered for sale . |
| 15 | Certain cases dominate the coverage in the national press , and by using these cases it is possible to indicate how the images of sex beast are constantly being preferred to readers . |
| 16 | Unfortunately this only proves that the total costed each month to the various cost centres is correct , but does not overcome the problem of invoices or other documentation inadvertently being costed to the wrong project . |
| 17 | So you all took the initiative to ask questions as you go along without necessarily being invited to . |
| 18 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 19 | They have very little root , thus being referred to as floating teeth , and are easily removed by either the horse dentist or vet . |
| 20 | In these days of high land values and intensive land use it is comforting to the conservationists among us to see areas such as Threipmuir Common being designated as a Site of Special Interest and thus being left to nature . |
| 21 | Naturphilosophie was already being applied to the unity of type in the organic world by Lorenz Oken ( 1779–1851 ) and others . |
| 22 | Bugs at Wilton 's terephthalic acid plant are already being treated to Purisource , which is suitable for a range of effluents from many industries , including food , paper , pharmaceutical and chemicals . |
| 23 | The Government 's Energy Review , triggered by the storm over the pit closures programme , could launch a rational and integrated energy policy based on vastly improved conservation measures and an environmentally ‘ least bad mix ’ of energy sources , or worsen the damage already being caused to the environment . |
| 24 | You may be asking for inner guidance on a daily basis , not knowing that inspiration is already being given to you every time the need arises within your life . |
| 25 | Because of the ten-year lead time involved in planning and commissioning new stations , thought is already being given to the eventual need to replace the remaining Hunterston plant . |
| 26 | Dsepite Home Office denials prison officers claim staff are already being allocated to it |
| 27 | It is our contention that architectural conservation should be accorded the same consideration which is already being shown to the conservation of other resources , both natural and man-made , and for the same reasons . |
| 28 | The breed was already being exported to South Africa in the 1940s to improve the native cattle and it adapted well to a variety of climates and management systems . |
| 29 | The region finally being exhausted to Gould 's satisfaction , the couple returned to Sydney . |
| 30 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |