Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
2 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
3 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
4 | Suddenly , Rildia Bee heard the piece being played exquisitely in the next room , and beheld her own tiny to perched on the bench playing an instrument he had never before touched , and playing it already with transcendent genius . |
5 | Court papers relating to the St Quintin manor at Thornholme show that two bylaw men , a pinder , and one or two constables were being appointed there in the 19th century . |
6 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
7 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
8 | But after being knocked out in the first round of the English Derby the dog injured a hind muscle and was out of action for a long time . |