Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
2 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
3 | We were living at Southport and we were being bathed by mother before the kitchen fire , and I was getting undressed and being helped with the buttons by the housemaid . |
4 | Pessimists may say that this will lead to more elderly people being burdened with the costs of deteriorating houses ; optimists , that a higher proportion of future cohorts of the elderly will be accustomed to capitalizing on their assets . |
5 | Ciftci is in prison in Iraq awaiting trial , after being charged with the murders of the two men by the Iraqi authorities . |
6 | With last month 's Winter Olympics receiving over 160 hours of television programming and three weeks of heavy newspaper , magazine and TV coverage , rugby enthusiasts in the United States were given a vivid lesson as to the power of being associated with the Olympics in making sporting heroes out of previously little-known athletes . |
7 | But the Radicals , the predominant party under the Third Republic suffered from being identified with the failures of the 1930s and attracted less than one vote in ten . |
8 | This must , however , be done in a realistic and sensible way , the demands of the ward being balanced with the needs of the learner . |
9 | Newcomers to the Left could be forgiven for not being acquainted with the tactics of the Communists and with the tortuous and unedifying relationships within the United Front . |