Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This oast-house conversion is rather unusual in that four kilns or ‘ roundels ’ are attached to the central storage shed , a pair being placed on both sides of this building , giving a symmetrical composition . |
| 2 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 3 | Under the gruff tones she could feel his sympathy for her at being placed in such an awkward situation , and she made an effort to summon up some anger at his being sorry for her , but she could n't . |
| 4 | The client must consent in writing to his money being placed in such an account after a proper opportunity to consider that information ; ( 8 ) If the firm has any ground ( other than the absence of an acknowledgement as described above ) for believing that client money held in a particular bank account outside the UK will not be protected as effectively as it would be if held in a free money bank account in the UK ; ( 9 ) If the firm proposes not to pay interest on client money in accordance with the client money regulations . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just tired and cross at being coerced like this when all I want to do is — ’ |
| 6 | This can result from underclaiming of tax reliefs against taxable income , but it is more likely to be due to tax being stopped on some income but not reclaimed . |
| 7 | Now you 're petrified of being stopped by any of them cos you know it 's |
| 8 | We increasingly face a racism which avoids being recognized as such because it is able to link ‘ race ’ with nationhood , patriotism and nationalism , a racism which has taken a necessary distance from crude ideas of biological inferiority and superiority and now seeks to present an imaginary definition of the nation as a unified cultural community . |
| 9 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 10 | He was fair , snub-nosed and freckled ; she was dark , her hair lank and straight and despite being exposed to all weathers her skin was pale . |
| 11 | It is known from occupational medicine , that exposure to two chemicals at once can be far more damaging than being exposed to each chemical individually . |
| 12 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 13 | The official statistics reveal only a relatively small amount of such violence , yet most women are sufficiently convinced of its prevalence to organize their lives quite carefully in order to protect themselves from being exposed to such violence . |
| 14 | With different rolls being exposed to several subjects of different contrasts this is still possible with APE 100 and Rodinal if the developer is used at different dilutions . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've explained it to him and it 's not fair on him being exposed to some of our defending in recent weeks . ’ |
| 16 | The mysterious irony of salvation lay in this paradox : Jesus , the only one who kept the law in its entirety , paid the penalty of lawbreakers , by being exposed upon that accursed cross and subject to the judgment of God . |
| 17 | He hated being exposed like this . |
| 18 | It really worries me that we are being exposed like this . ’ |
| 19 | She did not deserve being pilloried like that at all . |
| 20 | Frank and Tom were never mentioned , even on the anniversary of their kidnaps , beyond being listed with all the hostages . |
| 21 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 22 | There would be no " blanket de-collectivization " , and profitable collective and state farms would be allowed to continue in the context of equal opportunities being given to all forms of farm ownership . |
| 23 | When you have noted the overall length you need to produce , divide this length into suitable proportions for your argument , so that not only will you not run out of space but the essay will have a " balance " as it develops , with worked-out proportions being given to each stage . |
| 24 | Reorganization is fitted into a model which already exists without sufficient attention always being given to those parts which do not fit very well . |
| 25 | Besides this we confined our survey to males aged 10–35 , the full questionnaire being given to those aged 16–35 . |
| 26 | Old newspapers are being preserved by photographing about 200 volumes a year to microform , priority being given to those for which readers make the greatest call . |
| 27 | So far as state education is concerned , increasingly free rein is being given to this power . |
| 28 | I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material . |
| 29 | Both linesmen and the referee had poor games with bad off-sides decisions being given against both sides . |
| 30 | The 5th company of the PDF , apparently surprised by the American move , slowly organised a counter-attack and gunfire was still being heard from this area yesterday morning . |