Example sentences of "be [being] [vb pp] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers are being warned to be on their guard following eight arson attacks on farms in Hereford and Worcester in the space of two days . |
| 2 | VICTIMS of last week 's floods are being warned to be on their guard against unscrupulous doorstep salesmen , who may try to take advantage of their situations . |
| 3 | PENSIONERS are being warned to be on their guard after two thieves stole a gold pocket watch on a chain worth £100 from the home of an 83-year-old woman in Third Avenue , Llay , Wrexham . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whether human , environmental or financial risks are involved , prevention strategies are being shown to be good business . |
| 7 | New entrants to the profession and those seeking a new appointment will , though , have to be astute , in the same way that parents exercising parental preference are being encouraged to be . |
| 8 | • Police say that cars are being stolen to be resold in car-starved east European countries . |
| 9 | All break-ins occurred during early evening and householders are being urged to be on the guard . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | and it was because the generation whose sons were being sent to be slaughtered |
| 12 | Was the regional office conscious in making that , I 'm sorry that was not that pause intentional , was the regional office conscious in making that suggestion that B eight uses were being advocated to be included and therefore the conflict potentially was a policy which was not before it ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And is the operational order er the document that is being referred to be the plaintiff 's council . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At one time , it had been rumoured that he was being groomed to be the next Commissioner . |