Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These , they gleaned , were being taken off to be burnt . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |