Example sentences of "being [vb pp] into [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only requirements are that cardboard boxes are flattened before being placed into cages and that only cardboard is deposited , unless otherwise specified . ’
2 Research is being undertaken into evaluation of applications .
3 ‘ This forms the basis of the RUTH programme , where research is being undertaken into surfactants , gel , microbiological methods , combined water/gas injection and foam injection .
4 All areas around London were gradually being developed into suburbs by the 1870's , and Chiswick was no exception .
5 So this was an obvious sales pitch , a shameless hype , designed to remind the world that the famous inner cities , which have now received the ultimate accolade of being received into cliche , enjoy the attentions of six ministers as well as the Prime Minister herself .
6 Children who have been adopted after being received into care are not included in these figures .
7 However , what the net result of the activity has been is unclear , as DEC says it is now closing down its VLIW-on-Alpha work — having failed to enlighten us as to the reasons why — but , at the instruction level , it is thought that Multiflow 's trace compilers were being pressed into service to boost the speed at which the RISC could execute programmes .
8 Indeed , it is ironic that it is being pressed into use for ‘ social market ’ theories when the original papal encyclical seems closer to Mrs Thatcher than Ludwig Erhard : ‘ that which the individual can achieve through personal initiative should not be the business of society ’ .
9 But in 1987 Derry beat Armagh in the Ulster decider with McGurk being pressed into action during the game .
10 Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction .
11 THE boss of one of Britain 's big four banks hit back last night at claims that small firms were being squeezed into bankruptcy .
12 And it is just as horrifying an idea to contemplate being walled into such a Paradise Garden as being condemned to spend eternity playing games with balloons which never burst , receiving presents from Santa without wondering how they were paid for , being organised into teams with leaders chosen arbitrarily from among us , or eating a permanent celestial buffet of ice cream and salmon sandwiches .
13 And when her soft red lips closed over the tip of his rapacious tool , he felt he was being lifted into paradise .
14 Most pertinently , they 're at the point where the dubious advantage of being sucked into London systematically develop in front of their half-repulsed eyes .
15 Ingrid watched in amazement as the eggs disappeared as if they were being sucked into quicksand , and looked up to see every man 's eyes riveted upon Ilse 's gaping crack .
16 ‘ I hear what you 're saying about bodies being sucked into walls … and sometimes spat out again .
17 lapillus can withstand being frozen into sea ice , but a number of other gastropods are able to survive this experience , and may be transported considerable distances in ice flows ( Medcof and Thomas , 1974 ) .
18 While office staff and skilled workers are being automated into obsolescence , and executives replaced by decision-making machines , game-playing robots are rendering human partners unnecessary .
19 He then returned to Wessex to raise more men , whereupon there was another unsuccessful assault on the city , which ended with the Scandinavians being pursued into Kent , where Ealdorman Eadric went over to Edmund ; Cnut used his fleet to cross the Thames estuary to Essex , and proceeded from there to ravage Mercia .
20 In this way glycine becomes the first amino acid in the protein , being carried into position on the ribosome assembly line by its tRNA .
21 Or he may be planning to sell , in which case he can risk a dinner party without being trapped into intimacy .
22 He says that the NRA does not measure enough of the substances being discharged into rivers .
23 Abrasive pads : These are random nylon fibres coated with adhesive to which abrasive particles are bonded with the whole being compressed into sheets and cut to size .
24 Hottest is the Dragon — or 68349 , specifically designed for use with handheld communicators running the software being developed by General Magic Inc , and claimed to be 25% more powerful than AT&T Co 's Hobbit , which also runs the General Magic software , and other devices being built into communicators .
25 The lenders are being separated into country groups — Britain , the United States and Canada — and then separated again into separate projects .
26 The techniques tend to diverge , romantic lyricism being channelled into ballads , boogification into a particular kind of rock 'n' roll song which I shall call ‘ mannerist ’ .
27 The posturing must stop , concerted steps taken and some of the money being channelled into development should be redirected into more stringent enforcement of anti-doping measures .
28 And it resulted in funds being channelled into education , in millions becoming literate , millions having at least four years at school .
29 I do n't know if it would be much consolation to someone being made into spaghetti in a black hole to know that his particles might survive .
30 In fact , a graphic series of pictures I 'm viewing of Koons getting it on with his 35-year-old fiancé are being made into paintings , sculpture and have even inspired a film .
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