Example sentences of "[pron] being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When trying to describe these facts , we find ourselves being sucked into the language of phenomenology with its core assumption that our experience consists of shifting mosaics of raw experiential data - colours , feelings of pain , desires , glimpsed movements … |
| 2 | Any response from me would have resulted in my being kissed on the forehead and my hair tousled ( and no boy is happy in being so treated , especially by a brother ) . |
| 3 | A mutation simply consists in +1 or — I being added to the value of a randomly chosen gene . |
| 4 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 5 | As we parked the car we saw someone being carried off the path into an ambulance — the attendant was n't kidding . |
| 6 | He felt himself being dragged to the top of the bank . |
| 7 | Harris fell foul of Heston 's neurosis about actors who arrive late on the set , and found himself being reprimanded by the man who personified Moses to most moviegoers . |
| 8 | And then the stern was lifting higher and higher ; the boat was turning broadside on and heeling right over — and Sam Gristy felt himself being catapulted into the sea . |
| 9 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 10 | Any benefit obtained from the issue costs is reflected in the interest expense and hence issue costs are appropriately accounted for as an adjustment to the amount of the liability , which effectively results in their being charged over the life of the instrument . |
| 11 | It is this expertise of the managers which justifies their being treated as the brain of the company , formulating corporate policy to further the ends of the enterprise . |
| 12 | A few weeks later , on tour in the USA , a series of violent incidents raised questions about the wisdom of their being included in the World Cup squad . |
| 13 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 14 | Words in the first category seem inherently more likely to succeed as part of the vocabulary of youth culture by virtue of their being marked from the start as oppositional to mainstream culture through their Creole pronunciation , and by this route to enter the " multi-racial vernacular " . |
| 15 | Moira died in 1793 leaving instructions that his corpse be fully embalmed prior to its being deposited in the family vault . |
| 16 | In brief then , there was no shortage of capital nor were there any institutional barriers to its being invested in the manufacturing industries in Britain . |
| 17 | This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees . |
| 18 | TELL you what , Test Match Special may have celebrated its being saved for the nation by ditching Don Mosey . |
| 19 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 20 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 21 | A photocopy of an affidavit in the possession of solicitors was not privileged by the mere fact of its being handed to the solicitors for the purpose of legal advice if the original was not privileged . |
| 22 | We can recognise a ‘ dull load ’ as a sign of indigestion through its being located in the stomach , since previous stomach-located ‘ dull loads ’ have occurred in conjunction with the other things which go to make up indigestion . |
| 23 | ‘ I always know when I visit Conservative houses because they wash their milk bottles before they put them out , ’ was one howler which contributed to her being booed off the stage when she addressed students at the London School of Economics . |
| 24 | Where in registered land a new covenant is given by the wife to the building society a certified copy of the transfer containing the covenant should be lodged with the deeds so that the building society has a proper record there of the wife 's liability , the transfer incorporating the covenant itself being retained at the Land Registry . |
| 25 | Rehearsals save you being embarrassed in the meeting by broken light bulbs , out of focus films , a speaker half an hour late because he could n't find anywhere to park , and shrieks and howls as the public address system does its best to drown the speaker . |
| 26 | A high tensile fencing instructor thought it would allow him to show trainees types of fencing in addition to the one being erected during the course . |
| 27 | Finally , there are two 8 ohm speaker outputs , with one being used for the unit 's internal driver . |
| 28 | In response , the Co-ordinating Committee for Powick , chaired by an academic from Birmingham University and involving six public authorities , decided to dedicate two further units specifically for this group , one being provided by the conversion of a general practitioner ( GP ) maternity unit . |
| 29 | Stepping ashore from the small tender that ferried passengers to and from the ship , Lindsey found herself being led towards the vehicle parked nearby . |
| 30 | Urged on by the tide of his insistence , Elisabeth felt herself being swept to the edge of a desolate strand . |