Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AD 695 that travellers from afar , or foreigners , are instructed to shout or blow a horn before leaving a road , to avoid being treated as a thief or worse ; this says as much about the controls placed on the English population as the desire to protect foreigners . |
| 2 | He did n't fancy the idea of being treated with a spanner if falling ill . |
| 3 | The PCP originated in cotton being treated by a bleaching and dyeing company nearby . |
| 4 | ’ the whole site is being treated in a way that will give the best possible financial return , that is the duty of the estate 's administrators . ’ |
| 5 | Anticipations of being skewered on a fork and toasted for indulgence in the sins of the flesh . |
| 6 | Even if horrific or frightening , it 's at least more exciting , less routine and ultimately the bad things — being skewered by a maniac or blown to pieces or vampirized — are happening to someone else . |
| 7 | The decision was made after councillors watched a video of a fox being mauled by a terrier that had been sent into a flooded drain to catch it . |
| 8 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 9 | All this is changing , there are courses and special training sessions available where both clients and public relations operators can be taught how to perform well on radio and they may get " real experience " at being interviewed by a TV or radio personality . |
| 10 | All the general advice given to improve your interview performance holds equally good when being interviewed by an agency and you can expect many of the same questions . |
| 11 | Even in 1981 this occurred , to some extent , with the president 's budgetary plans being modified to a degree that a British prime minister would regard as wholly intolerable . |
| 12 | Being assaulted by the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) on such issues is rather like being attacked by a bread and butter pudding . |
| 13 | A woman needed hospital treatment after being attacked by a parrot as she walked her dog at Ashleworth , near Gloucester . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 15 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 16 | In this way there is less chance of being caught at a disadvantage or being ambushed by circumstances . |
| 17 | Apart from getting arrested in Hungary because we apparently missed out the customs post and had driven about 3 miles from the border before being caught by a car and made to return , we arrived safety at Gyor at about 10.30 pm . |
| 18 | Have you ever had the experience of being met at an airport or a station by someone who did n't know you ? |
| 19 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 20 | No no this is being done by a university or Longmans press or something like that , surveying the use of language in the nineteen nineties . |
| 21 | This planning is being done in a way that it has never been done before and I 'm surprised they have n't grasped that . |
| 22 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 23 | Perform well whatever assignments you have , trust God 's angels to remove and replace where necessary when things are n't being done in a congregation as you think that they might be or should be done , or you might think well the , why do n't the elders do something about this , we 'll leave it , leave it to Jehovah and the angels , if there 's anything wrong , they 'll sort it out and they 'll make the elves sort it out as well , they have ways and means , again coming back to this new text here persistence in prayer shows you are awake the spirituals so there 's another way Jesus was outstanding in its constantly regarding prayers keep awake by field ministry and here 's a rare one in any public talk financial contributions financial , we do n't hear that very often in public talks , we , we always say that there 's , er people come to the meetings , there 's no collection , no mention of money , the seats are free , you 're |
| 24 | Employers who supply 10 or more cars to employees for their private use will be able to pay the tax direct to the Contributions Agency as an alternative to the deductions being made on a Pay As You Earn basis by the Inland Revenue . |
| 25 | If you think an allusion is being made to a Greek or Roman myth , you can try Lemprièe 's Classical Dictionary or some other dictionary of Classical mythology . |
| 26 | ( 5 ) A payment being made to a Doctor or Hospital under the Emergency Treatment provisions of the Road Traffic Acts it shall be borne : — |
| 27 | What was new after 1933 in respect of these films was that they were being made for a nation that was experiencing a new politicization and by a Hollywood that was equally trying to redefine its role within the culture . |
| 28 | Mrs Frizzell , engrossed in thoughts of buying a new dress , as well as her costume for the ball , which was being made by a dressmaker and was as yet unpaid for , jumped and turned round . |
| 29 | A soldier has died after being shot by a sniper whilst on duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | Still to come — the seaside resort of Bournemouth is being turned into a fortress as the Conservatives start arriving for their Conference . |