Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea of someone performing a song and being made out to be a god or whatever … it 's very strange . |
| 2 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 3 | The 1960s saw a disenchantment with this view , academia being seen instead to be an accomplice in the mainstream projects ( industrial , military , political ) of society . |
| 4 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 5 | Her eyes were on Theda 's in a look so compelling that Theda felt as if her mind were being dragged out to be read . |
| 6 | Nobody had told her it was to happen ; she had thought she was being brought here to be examined , and then the dentist had put a rubber mask over her face . |
| 7 | In green houses all over the country prize blooms are being brought on to be at their best for next week 's Chelsea Flower Show . |
| 8 | Some months previously , in London , a small film called John and Mary , based on a novella by Mervyn Jones , was being set up to be directed by Anthony Harvey , whose first film . |
| 9 | It 's a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross , and it says there there were two others also who were criminals were being led away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to place called the skull , there they crucified him and the criminals , one on the right , and the other on the left . |
| 10 | These , they gleaned , were being taken off to be burnt . |
| 11 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 12 | It was the result of being determined not to be manoeuvred into things she did n't want to do , and yet she most certainly did n't want to do this . |
| 13 | Parents are being warned not to be complacent after news that vaccinations against a deadly form of meningitis are to be introduced for children . |
| 14 | To resolve a doubt as to whether employed solicitors not being held out to be solicitors by their employers were required to hold practising certificates , s1A was added by s85 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 in the following terms : 1A . |