Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seat belt encircling both you and the baby could also result in her being crushed and receiving serious injuries . |
| 2 | The debtor is entitled to attend when the report is being considered and make any representations he wishes . |
| 3 | Nobody suspected that a significant proportion of the small population was being caught and killed each year in fishing nets . |
| 4 | Apart from the difficulties caused by the weather , few farmers are happy with the way oilseed rape is being priced and traded this harvest . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Reynolds explains : ‘ They were offenders , on the verge of being accommodated and displaying promiscuous behaviour so we were very concerned about the health risks . ’ |
| 6 | He felt his hair being stroked and opened both eyes . |
| 7 | I expect you remember being taken and fetched each day — some four or five miles — sometimes by me and sometimes by Ruth Donnison — and how you used to fume when we picked up the Khin Zaw 's children who were always late . |
| 8 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |