Example sentences of "being [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly the Edinburgh-Glasgow push-pull trains represented the sector 's highest quality product , being formed of Mark 3 stock and powered by smart and newly overhauled Class 47/7 locomotives . |
| 2 | At this time , fears of a timber famine were being expounded as earlier laws had failed to redress the impact of lumber companies and agricultural development and it was becoming increasingly apparent that public lands were being sacked of their natural timber resources . |
| 3 | The survivor , No. 59 at Fleetwood Depot in 1939 , before being stripped of its steps , handrails and trolley mast . |
| 4 | But now they face a battle to save another from being stripped of trees for a paper and pulp mill . |
| 5 | Scandal led to Majorie being stripped of her Miss World title after 104 eventful days . |
| 6 | But Hill is a fighter , a man who knows all about the inner trauma of rejection and who overcame the stigma of being stripped of the England captaincy and banned . |
| 7 | We also believe that Duncan should bear some of the responsibility for his wife 's death by being stripped of his army officer job . |
| 8 | It meant he had finally been accepted back into the Royal fold after being stripped of his OBE when he was jailed for tax evasion . |
| 9 | And he believes his team , despite being stripped of true international quality , can serve England well . |
| 10 | That would lead to him being stripped of the WBC title and Lewis declared champion . |
| 11 | JULIAN DICKS had the perfect answer after being stripped of the West Ham captaincy on returning from a five-game ban . |
| 12 | ROY SKELDON , Britain 's oldest professional boxer , is threatening to take legal action after being stripped of his Midland Area light-heavyweight title . |
| 13 | In the trees two Prussian prisoners were being stripped of weapons , food , cash and drink . |
| 14 | Her arms and legs ached , and because of her pending interrogation she was ever conscious of being stripped of her knickers . |
| 15 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 16 | The forests are at the same time being stripped of valuable and rare animals . |
| 17 | Through that network Mr Hann discovered that the Salvation Army was probably being defrauded of millions of pounds . |
| 18 | By a letter of 17 October 1991 those solicitors asked the local authority to keep them informed about the progress of the assessment that was being undertaken of the father and his partner . |
| 19 | At the present time it is being compounded of course by the er effects of nineteen ninety three Education Act with all that that Act implies or tightening up er many of the processes and procedures that we follow in dealing with special educational needs , we have a host of new draft documents for consultation from the Department for Education . |
| 20 | But surely a much more central question concerns the different ways being developed of organising sexual behaviour . |
| 21 | In a footnote to an observation made in Mull , Boswell writes , ‘ It is no small satisfaction to me to reflect , that Dr Johnson read this , and , after being apprised of my intention , communicated to me , at subsequent periods , many particulars of his life , which probably could not otherwise have been preserved . ’ |
| 22 | He could n't help being reminded of a cat 's tight , shell-pink rectum . |
| 23 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 24 | Such patients may be helped by being reminded of what they have accomplished during treatment . |
| 25 | They may be helped by being reminded of the long-term benefits of such observation . |
| 26 | Another ambition has been financial reward , and it is a lucky man who escapes a conversation with Jackie without being reminded of his various positions , his bankers , his lawyers , his accountants and his courtiers . |
| 27 | And I do n't want to keep being reminded of it . |
| 28 | Dalgliesh could never see him without being reminded of the portrait of his ancestor , Sir Hugo Berowne , in the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 29 | Looking into her frightened eyes , he could n't help being reminded of a leveret he had once caught as a boy . |
| 30 | As in much self-conscious fiction , we are constantly being reminded of the fictionality of the novel , but Verbivore makes it clear that this fictionality also applies to the ‘ simulations ’ of the media which its ‘ fictions ’ purportedly replace . |