Example sentences of "being [vb pp] at [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 2 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 3 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 4 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 5 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |