Example sentences of "[verb] being [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-smokers often report being treated with condescension in such situations . |
| 2 | The RSC is working with the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and the Department of Employment to develop the Indicative register of analytical chemists into a NVQ at level V. The RSC is also contributing to work being undertaken by employer organisations to develop other NVQs , mainly at levels I to III . |
| 3 | lapillus can withstand being frozen into sea ice , but a number of other gastropods are able to survive this experience , and may be transported considerable distances in ice flows ( Medcof and Thomas , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd be on a hiding to nothing , ’ said Joe , ‘ and that would probably include being shot at dawn . |
| 5 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 6 | … women who do appear being shown by way of a narrow range of images ; mother sufferer helper provider of food . |
| 7 | It was also claimed that Mr Deans had been responsible for the non-payment of police bills which had led to a threat of police cover being withdrawn for home matches . |
| 8 | The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips . |
| 9 | Well , I think the children do n't like being taken into care , for the most part . |
| 10 | Fyodor Kuzmin , the commander of the Baltic Military District , ordered Lithuanian deserters from the Red Army to return to their units within four days or face being returned by force . |
| 11 | I can remember being taken into care when I was three . |
| 12 | Several hands had hoisted her up , and she could remember being carried at shoulder height , giggling and swaying — and then ? |
| 13 | They 've been using flight manouevres last seen in the Vietnam war to avoid being hit by gunfire from the ground . |
| 14 | Officials are told to confine themselves to facts and to avoid being drawn into discussion of alternative policies . |
| 15 | John Major must secretly have been pleased at the way last week 's royal shocker deflected attention from the summit — the rest of us were just pleased to avoid being bored to death by this most tedious of Edinburgh festivals . |
| 16 | Two children in the car were rescued unhurt , and a woman inside the house narrowly avoided being hit by debris . |
| 17 | Some of the most serious allegations of child torture concerned South Africa , where Koojimaans reported that " 80 to 90 per cent of children detained under State of Emergency regulations over the past five years had alleged being tortured in detention " . |
| 18 | In a unanimous decision the Irish Supreme Court on March 13 refused to return to the United Kingdom two escaped prisoners , both members of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , on the grounds that they risked being assaulted by prison staff . |
| 19 | They do n't mind being shaded for part of the day . |
| 20 | Here oak is useful , because it does n't mind being soaked in water all winter , although it will probably split as it dries out in summer . |
| 21 | The company calls the project its Infostructure Network , and it will involve it laying 7,000 miles of fibre this year alone , which it sees being used for home shopping services , software delivery , movie offerings and interactive educational programming as well as up to 500 television channels . |
| 22 | This tape is slowing being inundated with milk and water and stuff like that ! |
| 23 | If you like being condemned to death and followed around by loonies with slippers on and becoming involved with weird prophecies from the dawn of time , it 's a lot of fun ! |
| 24 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 25 | ‘ Revelation must be judged by reason ’ ; in this way one could avoid being misled by Fancy ( a rather disorganized mental activity ) into the dangers of ‘ Enthusiasm ’ ( uncritical belief in a religious or political doctrine ) . |
| 26 | Krill being digested by comb jelly , Arctic |
| 27 | Berni 's problems began , he believes , when they started being influenced by marketing and introducing themes to the properties and designing the menus to match . |
| 28 | ‘ A driving offence which included being drunk in charge of a vehicle , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 29 | I know exactly how they 'll react — one will be emotional , the other will change the subject — and neither will appreciate being told in front of the other . |
| 30 | He felt he could not risk being sent to prison and leaving her to cope . |