Example sentences of "[noun prp] [being] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately for Scheer , however , an earlier provocative raid by Hipper 's ships had resulted in the Seydlitz being struck by a mine . |
| 2 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 3 | Dunes are much disturbed in summer and of comparatively little ornithological value , much of the large dune system at Camber being occupied by a golf course . |
| 4 | I am even more opposed to the question of that penalty in the United Kingdom being submitted to a tribunal outside this country and to the decision of that tribunal being treated as binding . |
| 5 | Watching his dark head disappear , Polly conjured up some very satisfying visions of Nathan Bryce being chased by a shark with a mouth like a huge pair of pinking shears . |
| 6 | Wilson wrote a large number of botanical and horticultural articles and books , his experiences in China being contained in A Naturalist in Western China ( 1913 ) and Plant Hunting ( 2 vols. , 1927 ) . |
| 7 | The more he thought about it , the worse Lucie liked the idea of Gabriel being accompanied by a monk . |
| 8 | Another time Joe heard his adopted teenage brother Ron being slammed against a wall . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Premier John Major was walking a diplomatic tightrope in Washington yesterday to avoid Britain being drawn into a ground war with Serbia . |
| 10 | PREMIER John Major was walking a diplomatic tightrope in Washington yesterday to avoid Britain being drawn into a ground war with Serbia . |
| 11 | This resulted in Morrissey being pelted with a pound of sausages at a future gig . |
| 12 | The Klausen Pass trip from Uri to Glarus can be made by a postbus service which operates July to September from Fluelen via Altdorf , the sector flurglen to Linthal being classed as a mountain postroad . |
| 13 | Relations between the two countries were criticized by Iranian hardliners , however , with former Interior Minister Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi being quoted in a report in Le Monde of June 7 as expressing strong opposition to the Saudi regime . |
| 14 | He shuddered and felt himself flush with real anxiety to see Charity and Peregrine being shown to a table . |
| 15 | There is no danger , of course , of Mr Major being mistaken for a toff . |
| 16 | The issue of corruption dominated political events in 1990 , with the Prime Minister 's son Vere Bird being implicated in a gun running scandal and removed from the Cabinet [ see pp. 37449 ; 37849 ) . |
| 17 | Clearly , less is more , for it was this novel , ‘ Amongst Women ’ , which last year led to McGahern being nominated for a Brooker Prize . |
| 18 | STRONG objections from residents have failed to stop a house at Lagmore Road in Dunmurry being used as a youth club . |
| 19 | Taczek and Tatyana Nowak , on the other hand , fed me a cock and bull story about Zbigniew Nowak being killed in a car crash . |