Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm just tired and cross at being coerced like this when all I want to do is — ’ |
| 2 | He hated being exposed like this . |
| 3 | It really worries me that we are being exposed like this . ’ |
| 4 | So far as state education is concerned , increasingly free rein is being given to this power . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | County Durham headteacher , Olwyn Gunn , a national executive member of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers , said : ‘ I really do n't know of any school where poverty is so bad that children are being treated like this . ’ |
| 7 | A new committee , the Joint Hospitality Industry Congress , is being formed for this purpose by the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association ( BHRCA ) , see page 8 . |
| 8 | E. P. Thompson is no doubt right to insist that a distinctive working-class culture was being formed at this period . |
| 9 | Conditions of employment , accommodation , training and the relations between foreign and local workers are also being examined in this study of early labour history in the oil industry . |
| 10 | Ten practices are being examined in this study , and they collectively involve practices with a variety of software programmes on their computer systems as well as practices still utilising traditional manual procedures of control . |
| 11 | They 've been checked over , as I say , the first one 's been cleared , and that 's been allowed to proceed , and the next ship er is being checked at this moment . |
| 12 | During the seventeenth century in England " gilt plate " , its weight carefully graded to accord with the importance and traditional status of the ruler who , through his representative , was being honoured in this way , was the most normal gift . |
| 13 | Resource studies Two closely related projects are being undertaken under this heading . |
| 14 | The major project being undertaken in this area is the ‘ Right to Associate in Theory and Practice ’ , which is financed in part by the Leverhulme Trust . |
| 15 | An increasing amount of work is still being undertaken in this area by the Secretariat . |
| 16 | At Bologna , it seems that both laws — the Roman or civil law , much used by the emperor , and the canon law , the law of the Church and of the papacy — were being taught by this date . |
| 17 | Now just imagine you are imagine being paralysed by this drug and yet being fully awake . |
| 18 | Kelly could see her clothes in the corner across the room , but she needed to get to them without being jumped by this barrel of lard . |
| 19 | This strategy of inculcation and for more explicit interventions into the flow of subjective responses , experiences , and pleasures , had a great deal in common with the programme for a renewed Liberalism being developed at this time by L. T. Hobhouse : |
| 20 | The teaching methods being developed by this project include the diagnosis of these difficulties and the provision of material enabling pupils to recognise and overcome them . |
| 21 | The material in the preceding section will be seen by some as both uncontroversial and trivial , but it forms a basic backcloth for the argument being developed in this book . |
| 22 | The theory of the global system being developed in this book proposes that the primary agent in the political sphere is a still-evolving transnational capitalist class . |
| 23 | I remain convinced that only lesbians and divorcees insist on being addressed in this manner . |
| 24 | The people being addressed by this fearful God will die in the desert , all of them except only for Joshua and Caleb . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems more like an interrogation to me , and frankly I do n't enjoy being quizzed like this . |
| 26 | The economic situation in the country is , is , is going down and down and down , and they 're being squeezed by this whole crisis . |
| 27 | Am I being interviewed as this council 's Environmental Health Officer , or am I being interviewed as a representative of the institution of Environmental Health Officers ? ’ |
| 28 | It was somewhat surprising , then , that McIlvanney felt uneasy being approached for this profile , apparently for fear that he might be invited to ‘ pontificate , when I really do n't think I have that much to say ’ , It sounded like false modesty , but after he 'd relented , I remembered the long-standing ‘ pin-down ’ policy employed to prevent hubris in sports writers . |
| 29 | A new 15 foot tufting machine is also being installed for this purpose , replacing one which originally came from the Glenvale factory in Paisley . |
| 30 | I am an incurable romantic and remember being captivated by this image of the ‘ lovecarriage ’ feast held in the yard of Prue Sarn 's farm in Precious Bane . |