Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe the phase by Alan Witherden being referred to is ‘ watersport is not particularly attractive to Black people ’ . |
| 2 | In the discussion which follows it will be assumed that what is being referred to is a receiver appointed out of court . |
| 3 | The critical assets being referred to were the twelve M2D Amphibious Bridging and Ferrying Vehicles operated by the troop , which lay dispersed and camouflaged under the high oak and pine trees of this wooded harbour area , about thirty kilometres south-east of Hamburg . |
| 4 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 5 | And is the operational order er the document that is being referred to be the plaintiff 's council . |
| 6 | Children are not being taught to be Christians . |
| 7 | Ace have also joined those able to manufacture in 3 ply polyethylene , the chemicals used being claimed to be safer for workers than those used by other companies although long term properties such as UV stability have still to be checked . |
| 8 | As Mr Jarvis observed ‘ The old days of teachers being trusted to be professional and to show commitment have gone . ’ |
| 9 | The women , however , were more aware of being pushed , of being expected to be unusual . |
| 10 | The first dilution is prepared and the tube is then emptied , the amount left being considered to be equivalent to one drop . |
| 11 | Through sorcery , the Piaroa shaman leader is highly violent on a daily basis toward the end of protecting his community from the dangers of disease and death , both being considered to be attacks by cannibalistic beings from both this and other worlds . |
| 12 | While narrowing the old section 2 , the act is unlikely to give protection to a " whistleblower " who felt that the public should be told certain information as any defence depends on disclosure being considered to be in the public interest and that would still seem to mean " the interests of the state according to its recognised organs of government and the policies expounded by the particular government of the day " per McCowan I. in Ponting 's case . |
| 13 | Well he knows that his views may not necessarily be the majority and count in the end , but at least they 're being taken into account and being considered to be important . |
| 14 | Where there are two conflicting Court of Appeal decisions on a point , the Court may choose which it will follow , the decision not followed being deemed to be overruled . |
| 15 | The fear of being deemed to be trading ( rather than investing ) in futures contracts , and so liable to taxation is thought to have deterred such institutions from using them as part of their investment strategy . |
| 16 | Barthes develops an idea of discourse that is evocative of the text as something being read , or being written to be read . |
| 17 | Also , even if a subject is never directly or completely ‘ freed ’ trom repression by its displacement , he or she may be empowered in other ways — for example , by being seen to be homophobic in a homophobic culture . |
| 18 | It is not about sincerity , so much as being seen to be sincere . |
| 19 | The Nazis could only thrive on being seen to be refused , and the Poles had just obliged . |
| 20 | Justice was neither being done nor being seen to be done . |
| 21 | In conceding ( b ) he recognises that scribal records actually were unreliable , as well as being seen to be . |
| 22 | Having a senior member of the management team actively involved in analysing attendance and being seen to be taking action was an important aspect . |
| 23 | Being seen to be soft on the City is something that Mrs Margaret Thatcher has always dreaded . |
| 24 | A major development of the area had taken place , the CNAA was being seen to be ‘ fierce ’ in its approach , and institutions were being obliged to be ‘ thorough ’ . |
| 25 | It is a view I believe which is held by everyone connected with policing at local level and additionally , the continuation of the tripartite system with its essential checks and balances on the activities of the three parties involved and My Lords that is the real importance and value of the tripartite system that depends on the local authorities being seen to be in the driving seat . |
| 26 | Being seen to be Green |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Very shortly after the declaration of war with Spain on 25 April 1898 the Quartermaster approved two new jackets for optional undress and field use by officers , both presumably being felt to be more practical than the smart but confining stand-collar coat of 1895 . |
| 30 | The Department of Defense refused further co-operation , the risk of a hostile audience reception being felt to be too great , and there was perceived to be an indifference to the war created by television news saturation . |