Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you imagine you 'll somehow be rewarded for being a martyr ? |
| 2 | In other spheres Margaret Thatcher , Mary Archer ( who chairs the hardship committee at Lloyd 's ) and Helen Sharman , who were all trained as chemists , could hardly be accused of being unsuccessful . |
| 3 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 4 | Faldo could also be disciplined after being heard to swear on TV when a spectator took a photograph at the ninth and Faldo scored a six . |
| 5 | Although a recovering alcoholic and noted for temper tantrums , she could never be accused of being bland . |
| 6 | Stoddards Carpets Maintenance Worker Robert Kerr could never be accused of being a high flyer — but he certainly seems to be producing a few . |
| 7 | BRIAN McGilligan could never be accused of being a dreamer . |
| 8 | They need to be greeted in a welcoming manner and would perhaps be helped by being offered a cup of tea and time to talk quietly together . |
| 9 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 10 | To the extent that the payment represents nominal share capital , it would also be exempted from being a distribution by s 209(2) ( b ) , ICTA 1988 . |
| 11 | Police officers who have taken statements from detainees will also be exempted from being questioned in court unless they agree to do so , making it difficult for detainees to challenge the validity of any confessions made under torture . |
| 12 | Considerable prestige will increasingly be enjoyed from being part of those international businesses . |
| 13 | There are ways of going on ( in Wittgensteinian vocabulary ) that mark out one discipline from another , with their tacit rules that can only be learned by being active in that community . |
| 14 | This must not detract from the enormous value of May 's pioneer work in publishing such large collections , and he can hardly be blamed for being the victim , as we all are in turn , of the limitation of the knowledge and ideas of the day . |