Example sentences of "being [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 32 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 33 | These were acknowledged publicly by no less a figure than a former Prime Minister , W.L. MacKenzie King , at the communal celebrations of Lyon 's 60th birthday and his 35th anniversary of engagement in social interests , as well as those of his friend of many years ( to whom Lyon Cohen had diverted the honour of being invited to be the Member of Parliament several years before ) , Sir Samuel W. Jacobs , KC : ‘ Our friend finds himself today , ’ , commented Jacobs , ‘ the acknowledged leader of Jewry in Canada , a position acquired by years of self-denying effort … respected by his own , and also by the larger community in which we dwell . ’ |
| 34 | I think that the changes in the health service are increasingly being understood to be welcome and to be providing a better health service for the future . |
| 35 | ( 2 ) That a requirement that the plaintiffs should give an undertaking had no justification in Community law since any obligation to make good any damage suffered by the defendants in the event of section 47 being found to be in breach of article 30 of the Treaty would fall upon the United Kingdom Government ; that accordingly , the question was to be decided on the ordinary principles of English law and it was within the judge 's discretion not to require an undertaking in damages ; and that in the circumstances , the grant of an interlocutory injunction was fully justified and should be restored ( post , pp. 173D–F , 189A–H , 190A–C , D , D–E ) . |
| 36 | Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others . |
| 37 | In cases before that date there was no practical difference for the plaintiff in being found to be volenti or contributorily negligent . |
| 38 | Scottish scallops , worth about £7,000 and due for export to Spain , have been buried alive after being found to be contaminated with heavy metals . |
| 39 | But , say what you like about him , he was probably the perfect bridge between us and a being from another world , especially when that being proved to be as mean and nasty as Argol looked to be . |
| 40 | • Police say that cars are being stolen to be resold in car-starved east European countries . |
| 41 | We have already discussed how the policy of segregating the mentally handicapped in long stay hospitals is being abandoned to be replaced by more widespread fostering in tandem with short term care , and the use of group homes in ordinary houses and ordinary streets . |
| 42 | Her whole being seemed to be pervaded by a dreamy languor , a torpid drowsiness , which was barely disturbed as his hand closed over her wrist . |
| 43 | Towards the end of the 13th century , the Abbot had two mills , the foundations of at least one of them ( the precinctual mill ) being rumoured to be beneath those of the present Abbey Mill . |
| 44 | Thus , being known to be a criminal is the same as being one in terms of treatment . |
| 45 | In the history of social improvement and development , compacts and other examples of ‘ limited ’ ( e.g. ‘ feel good ’ ) partnership activities run the risk of being judged to be brief and enthusiastic failures . |
| 46 | Well er the I mean there has been a slight complexity with the replacement er programme of course because er er E F two thousand was originally envisaged that it would replace the phantoms er as as as as well as the jaguars and now that er has altered with the decision in options to er get rid of er the phantom squadrons , we 've er been able to adjust the replacement programme such that er the aircraft E F two thousand will replace er the erm er the jaguar and some of the F threes er and the programme will be adjusted such that we get er the most cost effective er mixture of replacement of those two types and there is no problem with keeping the jaguar going until that stage and it may well be it is , is being judged to be cheaper that we should er do some F three replacement at the same time , again partly for cost reasons because it 's gon na be more cost effective to do it that way . |
| 47 | The use of impro in training has gone through many phases ; it still conjures up the traditional , hackneyed image of a student being asked to be a tree or an icecream . |
| 48 | The ceremony , as a religious ceremony , is a mockery , yet as a social ceremony , with the gathering of relatives and friends , the honour of being asked to be godparents , the tea-party afterwards and the christening presents given ( silver objects in particular ) , the whole thing has a significant place in the lives of the people concerned . |
| 49 | After four years of unusually low rainfall , most UK water reserves are low , and many areas have hosepipe and sprinkler restrictions in force , whilst in other areas , people are being asked to be sensible with water , and not to waste it . |
| 50 | We are told that , having lost an empire , we can have a new role in a European superstate , as if we were being asked to be its leader — which we are not . |
| 51 | Visitors are being asked to be on their guard against fire and not to use stoves ; to dispose of cigarette ends and matches carefully and immediately report any sign of fire to the fire brigade . |
| 52 | Last October , Swiss bondholders agreed that interest on the bonds should be deferred with the bonds not being declared to be in default until 1 March . |
| 53 | Machismo is neutered by being assumed to be synonymous with stupidity and tedium . |
| 54 | Other analysts criticized him for being both too political and unscientific — science being assumed to be apolitical in principle . |
| 55 | Thus , the efficiency of workers may be a function of the degree of supervision and of the salary differential ( promotion being assumed to be a reward for efficiency ) . |
| 56 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 57 | ALTHOUGH I welcome any move towards a more open society I am a little disturbed by the relentless way in which childhood is being forced to be politically correct . |
| 58 | The nervous stress and strain of being forced to be in Ross 's company , each and every day , had really taken a heavy toll on her reserves of strength . |
| 59 | With the help of defiant stances and some actual fighting , Jock establishes himself in public reputation as the kind of tough lad he enjoys being taken to be . |
| 60 | The seals , one 1,000-years-old and the other 300-years-old , were stolen from a car parked in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , in August 1989 as they were being taken to be valued . |