Example sentences of "[noun sg] [being] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a problem here with the eyes , with the musician being chained to the printed page in front of him . |
| 2 | Does the Chancellor appreciate the harm being done to the economy by the 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Peace talks were set to resume in Caracas , Venezuela , on Aug. 26 between the government and the Simon Bolivar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) , which had announced on Aug. 1 that it would suspend attacks on the country 's economic infrastructure , especially electricity pylons and oil pipelines , because of " the harm being done to the poverty stricken communities of the country " . |
| 4 | In our special reports this week we 've heard complaints of under-investment in railways , over-reliance on road building , and of harm being done to the environment . |
| 5 | Other transfers also took place with Stock Accounting being transferred to the Management Accounting Section . |
| 6 | Their affair could be described either as ‘ passionately discreet ’ or as ‘ discreetly passionate ’ , the relative anonymity of Wenlock Manor being preferred to the sodium-lit splendour of the Grand Hotel . |
| 7 | If we project that against total revenues expected in that year , it amounts to about one single day of revenue being allocated to the budget to implement the safety regime in the North sea . |
| 8 | It was generally understood that there was very little chance of the deal being referred to the MMC . |
| 9 | For example , water has a generally low reflectance in the visible spectrum , the proportion of reflected light being related to the presence and amount of suspended sediment and dissolved organic material . |
| 10 | Where the restraint necessitates holding a client down , the first recourse should be to attempt this face up , a degree of weight being applied to the shoulders . |
| 11 | However , in extreme cases it may be necessary to hold the client face down , a degree of weight being applied to the upper back . |
| 12 | I consider also that the decision in question was flawed to a degree by undue weight being given to the question of a disorderly collapse . ’ |
| 13 | The next chapter covers the synthesis of peptides , with roughly equal weight being given to the subjects of protecting groups and coupling procedures . |
| 14 | Such additional requirements may give rise to a special condition being attached to the back of the contract . |
| 15 | The possibility of the action being leaked to the press — with the ensuing headlines screaming BRANSON AIRLINE COLLAPSE — did nothing to calm Branson 's nerves . |
| 16 | Under what conditions is western aid being given to the former Soviet Union ? |
| 17 | The coffin of the Fourth Earl De La Warr ( d.1795 ) ( Col. 13 ) was padded with shoddy prior to the fitting of the velvet , shoddy and velvet being gimped to the chamfered base of the sides , with the coffin base itself shamfered along the edge . |
| 18 | Probably by 1519 and certainly by 1526 the management of the Household needed reform , for , as Wolsey 's Eltham Ordinances pointed out , ‘ officers and ministers of his Household being employed to the making of provisions and other things concerning the wars , the accustomed good order of his said Household hath been greatly hindered ’ . |
| 19 | He says there are vastly more vehicle miles travelled on the road system with 3 carrier bags of shopping in the back of a car than there is with 38 tons of shopping being delivered to the supermarket in a lorry . |
| 20 | By 1973 the total staff was nearly 1400 , with a large proportion being devoted to the needs of the offshore exploration industry , and onshore developments consequent upon the need for improved infrastructure and resource exploitation to meet the requirements of the new industry for new roads , bridges , rig construction yards , concrete platforms , management expertise , information technology , and a host of other peripheral activities . |
| 21 | In addition , the DSP 715 's ‘ TBC ’ circuitry simulates the thermal behaviour of loudspeaker voice coils , monitoring their actual temperature ; any excess reading will result in a restricted voltage being fed to the speaker ( but with imperceptible loss of sound quality ) until an acceptable working temperature is regained . |
| 22 | New Zealand Cricket had decided that there will be four selectors , with the coach being added to the panel . |
| 23 | The right of appeal depended on reference being made to the pope . |
| 24 | Building work continued , with a second storey being added to the Junior School building to provide improved facilities for art , drama , and music ; and the Orchard was brought , providing room for possible future development . |
| 25 | Ferranti International Plc , Manchester , says its Ferranti Technologies Inc unit has won a $9.8m contract amendment to improve the air combat training range being supplied to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 26 | The initial Khmer Rouge reaction to the affair was restrained , however , with no specific blame being apportioned to the Phnom Penh regime . |
| 27 | Accordingly , in relation to paragraph 2(k) of the originating summons I will answer the question in the affirmative , subject to the question being limited to the existing documentation in use by the Woolwich Building Society and subject to the request for the structural survey being part of an application for a further advance . |
| 28 | The bill appears to guarantee this by the allocation of 8.9 per cent of income for the development of Scottish sport , with a further share of the overall allocation to UK sport being awarded to the UK sports commission , when it is established . |
| 29 | In the Old Testament , as we have seen , the Spirit of God was manifested in a variety of ways — strength , wisdom , ecstasy , even frenzy being attributed to the wind or Spirit of Yahweh . |
| 30 | Neo-Malthusianism was further attacked in ways already discussed in Chapter 2 , but also drew what in the authors ' opinion was a misplaced and utopian analysis from the Marxist literature based solely on a critique of bourgeois ideology , without serious attention being given to the effects of rapid population growth in any social formation , transitional to socialism or towards any other social order . |