Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] [prep] [being] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both West German federal and regional Parliamentarians also want a bigger say over EC legislation but they believe this should be assured by being made members of a new , upper house of the European Parliament . |
| 2 | Such screening ensures appropriate use of expensive medicines and is a model of the way in which any NHS development should be evaluated before being implemented . |
| 3 | All completed forms should be photocopied before being issued to the New OED Computer Group for actioning . |
| 4 | Seeds such as fennel should be bruised before being made into an infusion to release the essential oils from the cells . |
| 5 | When work is not in progress on a module but the module must be accessed by a package , the module must be locked against being set to hard copy only and against modification . |
| 6 | Power must be prevented from being used arbitrarily . |
| 7 | It went this conference believes , that the role of trade union councils at local level , whose value is clearly acknowledged , must be strengthened by being given the right to express a view through its democratically elected delegates at annual conference within the framework of the T U C. |
| 8 | But a chemist , wondering how the rather fetching picture of myself ( below ) might be affected by being doused in nitric acid , would find it easier to understand the ensuing mess if she ( or he ) understood it as a collection of molecules of cellulose . |
| 9 | Farms could be accumulated without being enclosed , and individual yeomen could , by exchanging strips in the open fields with their neighbours , consolidate their holdings and thereby create a unit which was easier to work . |
| 10 | If the passage of the deposit is not prohibited , then it could be lost by being passed to an individual or a company that goes bankrupt or becomes insolvent before completion . |
| 11 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 12 | Alongside the emphasis on knowledge , great faith was also placed in the power of science to discover the laws of the physical universe , society and even human personality itself , so that the world and individuals could be improved by being controlled . |
| 13 | A great many anthropogenic wastes — pollution by any other name — could be rehabilitated by being treated as a positive resource only awaiting an inventive ecological design . |
| 14 | YEARS ago Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 15 | YEARS ago , Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 16 | Where the question of a sexual motive is avoided , either the defence recognise that their client could be disadvantaged by being typed as a sex maniac and the prosecution may realise that such a line of questioning may unnecessarily complicate a case , or there may seem little scope for placing the blame elsewhere . |
| 17 | A CUSTOMS chief may be fired after being convicted of hitting a fellow rail passenger . |
| 18 | Such patients may be helped by being reminded of what they have accomplished during treatment . |
| 19 | They may be helped by being reminded of the long-term benefits of such observation . |
| 20 | One member of his family could come and visit him that afternoon and yes , we would be allowed to bring food , which would be examined before being given to the prisoner . |
| 21 | ‘ But we were told that when the work resumed there would be no cause for concern as the mud and filth being dredged from the Lagan was to be carefully loaded into ‘ sealed lorries ’ which would be washed before being driven away . |
| 22 | When he told him he would be arrested for being drunk , Sweeney butted him in his left eye and brought his knee up to his groin . |
| 23 | The potential profits of the buyers of the 60 per cent of Entel to be sold off would be reduced by being based on the purchase price of $1,900 million and not on the $3,500 million net asset value as fixed by the government . |
| 24 | This year , of course , everything will be geared to being selected for the Olympic Games . |
| 25 | Onyett ( 1992 ) argues against the use of the term care management on the grounds that the term ‘ care ’ obscures the need to focus on needs and strengths of individual users ; implies a passive relationship between users and providers ; and can be equated with being banished from everyday life . |
| 26 | Under the deal , called PRT ( Promotion , Transfer and Redundancy ) , nobody can be sacked without being offered another job somewhere in the system . |
| 27 | Unir says binaries developed using C++ can be run without being recompiled on any processor that supports Conix , enabling developers to distribute the same binary for Sparc , 68000 family and iAPX-86 . |
| 28 | Unir says binaries developed using C+@ can be run without being recompiled on any processor that supports Conix , allowing developers to distribute the same binary for Sparc , the 68000 and Intel . |
| 29 | Under present law an article can be stolen without being taken away . |
| 30 | I think you can be oppressed through being exploited , harassed , discriminated against ; or through being ignored and looked straight through . |