Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the deal , called PRT ( Promotion , Transfer and Redundancy ) , nobody can be sacked without being offered another job somewhere in the system . |
| 2 | In certain pure sciences , mathematics for instance , although discoveries may enable changes and developments of a material kind , their occurrence can not ipso facto be explained by being related to the allegedly determining political and economic history of their immediate era . |
| 3 | Hoping as always to avoid trouble , the Goldsmiths decided to require the new Schoolmaster to be examined before being appointed ; this was duly done , and Joseph Whittle , a graduate of Brasenose College , Oxford , took up his position with effect from 28th September . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Their Lordships held that a chief constable who was dismissable only for cause was entitled to notice of the charge and an opportunity to be heard before being dismissed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All completed forms should be photocopied before being issued to the New OED Computer Group for actioning . |
| 8 | I think you can be oppressed through being exploited , harassed , discriminated against ; or through being ignored and looked straight through . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Seeds such as fennel should be bruised before being made into an infusion to release the essential oils from the cells . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At least I ca n't be done for being drunk in charge of a setter . ’ |
| 13 | However , there is something to be said for being kept waiting by a buyer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Power must be prevented from being used arbitrarily . |
| 16 | The issue of the legitimacy of corporate enterprise can , however , be saved from being swallowed up in this wider debate if the assumption is made that alternative patterns of distribution can be secured through state action should the prevailing one be considered morally unappealing . |
| 17 | They seek to restrict town-based owners to one dog per household and legislate for all puppies to be neutered before being sold . |
| 18 | Thereafter , Yeremi himself would never again be fazed by being decanted into any foreign environment . |
| 19 | It was on an overseas tour with Newcastle that Gallacher earned the dubious notoriety of being the first player to be accused of being drunk in charge of a football . |
| 20 | If Hughie Gallacher was the first Scot to be accused of being drunk in charge of a football then his namesake , Patsy Gallacher , had already gone one better . |
| 21 | The teachers are forced to cancel the 800 metres when the other competitors all withdraw rather than be humiliated by being beaten by me and my Mum is moved to tears of joy and pride as I win the 4 × 100 metres relay race on my own . |
| 22 | YEARS ago Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 23 | YEARS ago , Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Such patients may be helped by being reminded of what they have accomplished during treatment . |
| 26 | They may be helped by being reminded of the long-term benefits of such observation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This year , of course , everything will be geared to being selected for the Olympic Games . |
| 30 | ‘ A person shall , so long as he is , and for twelve months after he ceases to be , a member of a local authority , be disqualified for being appointed by that authority to any paid office , other than to the office of chairman or vice-chairman . |