Example sentences of "was [being] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 2 | But , in addition , there arose the possibility of some common agreement with industry over the fact that the economy was being run to the advantage of the City as opposed to industry . |
| 3 | Mr Paz Zamora said Europe was being invited to the summit because it had ‘ demonstrated a marked interest in dealing with the problem alongside other countries ’ . |
| 4 | In short , the origin of ‘ civilisation ’ might well be traced to man 's dawning understanding that the ‘ joie de vivre ’ experienced in childhood was being lost to the individual as his life went on . |
| 5 | They have been fully satisfied that the site was being operated to the highest standards . |
| 6 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 7 | A slow — admittedly a very slow start — was being made to the build-up of a long-range nuclear bomber force . |
| 8 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 9 | As he was being led to the cells he sniggered and said : ‘ Happy Christmas , by the way . ’ |
| 10 | The fear was banished from his heart by pity for his fellow-countrymen and anger at what was being done to the little village of Granard that he had thought would be a haven of peace . |
| 11 | Rain fell at Monaco — providentially for Prost , who was being pushed to the extreme by the young Ayrton Senna , and would certainly have been overtaken one lap later . |
| 12 | Rostov watched his own screen as it duplicated the information which was being relayed to the sailing master . |
| 13 | That 's hardly paying for the cheesecake recipe let alone the proper information which was being given to the public . |
| 14 | But before the tour , chairman of selectors Ted Dexter confirmed that the original 16-man squad , from which David Gower and Jack Russell were controversially omitted , had been picked because equal importance was being given to the tour 's Test and one-day international commitments . |
| 15 | At the same time as backbench morale was being boosted and the government 's view was being channelled to the voters , a lid was being kept on the facts about water privatisation and pollution cost . |
| 16 | He was to be classified as a Soviet citizen , he was being sent to the Correctional Labour Colonies … |
| 17 | He reports that the harvest had been very abundant but mentions nothing but potatoes , the surplus of which was being sent to the south , the earlies at £5 per ton which after deducting freight etc. leaves the farmer about £4–5–0 ; rocks were £4 per ton . |
| 18 | The produce was being sent to the Merseyside smelters such as Thos . |
| 19 | He said a copy of the report from the meeting was being sent to the Housing Minister . |
| 20 | Police said one man had been charged with breach of the peace and a report was being sent to the procurator fiscal . |
| 21 | This was a time when , for the first time , modern linguistics was being applied to the study of literature in the U.K. Often , I felt , this approach led to misunderstanding and even animosity between literary and linguistic scholars . |
| 22 | Nagdi , who was being driven to the offices of the Iranian National Resistance Council , was shot twice in the face . |
| 23 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 24 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 25 | To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best . |
| 26 | And especially when all its fire was being drawn to the southern stretch . |
| 27 | Luke 's words and their possible implication slammed belatedly into her brain as she was being introduced to the entertainment editor of a local newspaper , but natural incredulity dismissed them as more talk , just words carelessly plucked from an inadequate language . |
| 28 | Here protection was being offered to the husband , but also to the wife against her apparently uncontrollable consumerism . |
| 29 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
| 30 | In consequence his temple was being abandoned to the ravages of Time , who for thousands of shamefaced years had been reluctant to go near the place . |