Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] [prep] being " 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 | Attack is a no-no for bowlers in limitedover cricket ; they should be resigned to being the chopping blocks for the batsman 's run-scoring and entertainment propensities . |
| 5 | Seeds such as fennel should be bruised before being made into an infusion to release the essential oils from the cells . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Power must be prevented from being used arbitrarily . |
| 8 | TODAY does not believe in merely telling the Government that something must be done without being able to suggest positive moves . |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 12 | Whatever prestige and influence might be gained by being a reserve currency was wholly insufficient to compensate for export profits being lost by overvaluation . |
| 13 | Wesker might be accused of being somewhat subjective about the play , a charge that may be repeated as the producer of his own work . |
| 14 | It is of no surprise to you and I to know that we are in a erm an economic crisis , and , but I think that we might be accused of being in an area that does n't take the fair share of the cuts . |
| 15 | Prost ( right ) is worried that he could be penalised for being involved in ostensibly innocent race clashes |
| 16 | If E. K. Chambers could be suspected of being dull and pedantic , what were Fox 's qualities ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 21 | The other girls could be forgiven for being depressed — after all , they were facing a racing dynamo , who seemed indestructible , regardless of weather conditions . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The basic problem with this aspect of the technique is that the movement occurs very quickly , so you could be excused for being unsure quite what has happened . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | YEARS ago Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 26 | YEARS ago , Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 27 | Spalding 's stages could be criticised for being somewhat vacuous . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Croaking Gourami could be accused of being rather a colourless drab specimen . |
| 30 | If you were caught , you 'd be charged for being improperly dressed — you had to be in uniform . |