Example sentences of "[verb] being [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Non-smokers often report being treated with condescension in such situations . |
| 2 | When water levels drop the shoreline remains green , for it is seeded with a special grass which can survive being submerged for weeks at a time . |
| 3 | … women who do appear being shown by way of a narrow range of images ; mother sufferer helper provider of food . |
| 4 | The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips . |
| 5 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 6 | But he would likely feel uneasy if , say , twice as many students as expected appeared to deserve an A or a B. He might also fear being reproached by colleagues for lowering standards . |
| 7 | ‘ He wo n't like being bested by friends of a black lady , ’ said Werewolf seriously . |
| 8 | She loathed being parted from Ricky for a second , and Felicia , the ponies Ricky and Drew had lent her were still very green |
| 9 | They 've been using flight manouevres last seen in the Vietnam war to avoid being hit by gunfire from the ground . |
| 10 | Officials are told to confine themselves to facts and to avoid being drawn into discussion of alternative policies . |
| 11 | For the rest of the reign the two nobles apparently co-operated , and were in particular careful to avoid being drawn into disputes between their men . |
| 12 | For the rest of the reign the two nobles apparently co-operated , and were in particular careful to avoid being drawn into disputes between their men . |
| 13 | John Major must secretly have been pleased at the way last week 's royal shocker deflected attention from the summit — the rest of us were just pleased to avoid being bored to death by this most tedious of Edinburgh festivals . |
| 14 | Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho , had grown his own cannabis back home in Los Angeles and had thought to avoid being busted by customs by posting it to the hotel in Wales where he was due to stay in June 1989 . |
| 15 | They do n't mind being shaded for part of the day . |
| 16 | ‘ As I 'm a stranger here , I do n't mind being shown to people like a strange wild animal . |
| 17 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 18 | Do you really hate being asked about drugs in interviews ? |
| 19 | ‘ A driving offence which included being drunk in charge of a vehicle , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 20 | I know exactly how they 'll react — one will be emotional , the other will change the subject — and neither will appreciate being told in front of the other . |
| 21 | She had never imagined being forced into confidence with such brutal suddenness . |
| 22 | But disenchantment set in because the outdated Merlin ( used for the Avro Tudor and Canadair Four ) clearly had little future , and the more rewarding prospect of a senior job on the new Dart engine ( destined for the Vickers Viscount ) kept being thwarted by delays to the project . |
| 23 | People who want to keep their hard-won independence and who fear being betrayed into union with Europe by treacherous politicians . |
| 24 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 25 | The West Midlands Area Tories , to which organisation Arden belonged , were holding a dance to the music of the Majorettes , but David did not fancy being enveloped in clouds of blue tulle . |
| 26 | Stephenson , of Harrowgate Village , Darlington , admitted being drunk in charge of a child . |
| 27 | It is possible to consider a situation where most franchises remain being run by groups of B R managers and a few franchises are run by private sector companies . |
| 28 | Sam was also a masterly shepherd and an expert breeder of Swaledale sheep , a most hardy animal which roams at will along the high fells and can live through all but the most brutal winters , even possessing the stamina to survive being buried for days under several feel of snow , so long as there is an air hole . |
| 29 | The International Atomic Energy Agency requires flasks used for transporting spent fuel to be designed to survive the impact of a 9-m fall — equivalent to an impact of 30 mph — and to survive being engulfed by fire for 30 minutes at a temperature of 800 deg . |
| 30 | Despite their protestations of loyalty , Methodists could not escape being associated with Jacobinism by some . |