Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the system of exogamy prevailed , according to which a bride had to be obtained from another clan , ‘ bride-price ’ and dowry being given according to an agreement between the parents . |
| 2 | Mr Rees elaborated : ‘ We are being expected to agree to an omnibus distribution method under which the monthly creditor might be repaid more quickly than the contract provides , whilst the weekly creditor is repaid by instalments only a fraction of those shown in the contract . |
| 3 | Miss Downey is being tipped to star in a Hollywood remake of The Quiet Man , in the role made famous by Maureen O'Hara . |
| 4 | They are registered with the English Golf Union and play regular fixtures at Mill Hill and Highgate in addition to Henley where they feel particularly welcomed and privileged by being permitted to play on a Sunday . |
| 5 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 6 | A sleeping duck always runs the risk of being caught napping by a fox or cat . |
| 7 | If she made no response , he might well climb over the wall all the same , as he had on the previous night ; on the other hand if she went to him and they were caught his offence would be deemed the worse , for being found on Roscarrock property was one thing , but being caught dallying with a servant girl was another . |
| 8 | I felt that no attempt was being made to arrive at an analysis of our situation based on the specificity of our experience as lesbians and gays . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought it could n't be worse than being made to fight in a war that is nothing to do with me . |
| 10 | In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance . |
| 11 | If the initiative did not come from their mother it is hard to see either Richard , at fifteen , or Geoffrey , at fourteen , being persuaded to rebel by a man behind the scenes . |
| 12 | Four black men armed with AK47 rifles killed the white man , Tony Concer , as he was being driven to work at a steel mill by a friend . |
| 13 | Normal diaries are rare , abnormal diaries are more well-known , such as the Diary of Anne Frank and the Scroll of Agony , the diaries of a Warsaw Jew , Chaim Kaplan , who kept a diary from September 1939 until his death which was probably in 1943 , the papers being found hidden in a paraffin tin after the war . |
| 14 | Stephen was taken to the Cheltenham General Hospital on Saturday evening , after being found collapsed in a car . |
| 15 | We have all heard the stories of season ticket holders being found to stand for a match because someone else had been allocated a ticket for that seat . |
| 16 | who was at Cambuslang at that time , commented " He seems hurt at being asked to preach as a candidate and I sympathize with him in this , as I think candidating and preaching contests are the most objectional things conceivable , and also the least satisfactory way possible of getting good ministers as a rule good men who have done their work well will not preach as candidates for myself I never in my life either preached as a candidate , offered for a parish or got a certificate . " |
| 17 | Being asked to go on a committee may be something we tend to shy away from at first . |
| 18 | A fifth CNAA Committee would be set up for Art and Design , and pending a reconstitution of the Council 's committees and boards in 1975 the present NCDAD members were being asked to serve as a nucleus of the future committee . |
| 19 | Individuals transferring as a result of a promotion have more incentive to move to the new location than those being asked to move as a result of a group move . |
| 20 | Wildlife survey : Bird lovers are being asked to help in a survey on threatened farmland birds . |
| 21 | Of course life is not always as simple as that , and being asked to cover for a colleague at very short notice or an unexpected cancellation or transfer on the theatre list can throw your best laid plans into disarray . |
| 22 | as if she were being asked to walk across a sheet of ice , and with every step her confidence was faltering . |
| 23 | Being forced to uproot from a place one loves and has made one 's own . |
| 24 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 25 | Either side of the Refuge , time closed in , with meetings , the children to be looked after , books to be read , until she felt light-headed with the sense of not coming to grips with anything , of being forced to spin like a top . |
| 26 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 27 | Mrs. Millings was pleased at being called " Miss " , and the excitement of being taken to work in a police car was another pleasing thought . |
| 28 | Before I am going to talk about er urodynamic evaluation of patients with symptoms of outflow obstruction , I think it 's a good time to be talking about this when , particularly in North America , we 're being encouraged to move towards a questionnaire or score in order to select patients for treatment , whether that treatment be surgical treatment or , or other treatment . |
| 29 | Tears , weeping , sobbing , shaking and reliving the experiences which triggered off these powerful feelings , leave the person being counselled exhausted after a session but peaceful , and often with a new perception of the world . |
| 30 | Five puppies are fighting for survival after being left to die in a rubbish sack . |