Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loosened my shirt collar and watched a couple of generals being saluted by their chauffeurs . |
| 2 | The boys all liked him , too — and some of them resented being placed under my care because of the fun they knew they could be having next door . |
| 3 | It was the discovery by Dr Alice Stewart , for example , that the radiation from hospital X-rays given to pregnant women could increase the risk of leukaemia in their babies which contributed to severe limits being placed on their usage . |
| 4 | In particular , it was held that the law will imply a duty of care when a party seeking information from a party possessed of a special skill trusts that party to exercise due care , and that party knew or ought to have known that reliance was being placed on their skill and judgment . |
| 5 | But if the airspace is excluded from the demise , the tenant 's adviser should ensure that the tenant obtains a right to enter the airspace for the purpose of performing his covenants. ( g ) Fences In the case of wooden fences it is likely to be inferred that in the absence of freeboard the owner of land will use his land to the fullest extent ; and the fence will be deemed to belong to the person on whose side the rails and posts are placed , the palings being placed on his neighbour 's side ( Halsbury 's Laws of England , 4th edn , vol 4 , para 849 ) . |
| 6 | Privately , Conservative MPs predict that he will be moved in the first reshuffle after the Budget and bets are already being placed on his successor . |
| 7 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 8 | I nearly dropped it when I felt it being placed in my hand . |
| 9 | Parliament duly emerged , at the end of the seventeenth century , ‘ sovereign ’ in this sense , but it is doubtful if , in doing so , the claim was being formulated in its full , modern sense . |
| 10 | One author adopted a new name for religious reasons , both being listed on his thesis , but a search of the bibliography under both names failed to discover publications under either . |
| 11 | One author adopted a new name for religious reasons , both being listed on his thesis , but a search of the bibliography under both names failed to discover publications under either . |
| 12 | Provided the Conservatives do not get a working majority in the General Election we can hope to see some attention being given to our access problems at last and increasing awareness and support from the general public . |
| 13 | However , there were other reasons such as ‘ lost documentation ’ and small balances written off , all of which comprised the annual figure , the disclosure of which might result in too much attention being given to his department . |
| 14 | Both brothers were dressed in neatly tailored white tuxedos and black ties in preparation for the formal reception being given in their father 's honour at the palace of the governor of Cochin-China , and it was Chuck who had insisted that they travel separately by pousse-pousse rather than in the official Citron sent for their parents . |
| 15 | Will Labour fulfil the £35 billion of pledges being given by its spokesmen throughout the country ? |
| 16 | She had even left a photograph of Joseph Hegarty in the boy 's room lest he should think that his father was being banished from his memory on top of everything else . |
| 17 | This implication will be made upon the basis that Parliament is not to be presumed to take away parties ' rights without giving them an opportunity of being heard in their interest . |
| 18 | The Cereopsis , or Cape Barren goose , had become an early victim , being prized for its downy feathers . |
| 19 | Indeed , the most frequently cited judicial ruling on the employment law status of casual workers ( the " O'Kelly case " , see Leighton 1984 ) , concerned precisely this last category of people — a group of " regular casuals " at a major London hotel who sought redress for being dismissed following their efforts to secure trade union recognition . |
| 20 | Miss Van Den Berghen , of Hillingdon , west London , claimed sexual discrimination at a south London tribunal yesterday against Nabarro Nathanson , secretarial agency Eagle Place Services , and Mr Hamnett , after being dismissed from her job three months after the lunch . |
| 21 | After being dismissed from his post as head of religious education at King 's Norton Boys ' School in December 1988 , Mr Nicholson began a fight for compensation . |
| 22 | If anything disastrous should happen to him , such as being dismissed from his job , the urge to seek solace in the whiskey bottle might be far stronger than his strength of will . |
| 23 | At last she was being dismissed from his dangerous presence . |
| 24 | To allow the trends in underlying profits to be followed easily , two more profit measures are being highlighted in our reporting , both before such exceptional items . |
| 25 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 26 | Tail-end Charlie in the formation was a small float-plane owned but Bernhard Bergersen which on this occasion was being flown by his son . |
| 27 | Blanche was n't used to being rebuked by her son . |
| 28 | In patient 4 , who had been operated on before being referred to our institution , neoplastic cells including centrocyte like appearance infiltrated the mucosa , submucosa , and stomach muscles , with sparse extensions into the perigastric conjunctive tissue . |
| 29 | Unfortunately there are n't enough speech therapists or psychotherapists available either on the NHS or privately , so you may have difficulty in being referred by your doctor or finding one yourself . |
| 30 | Existing catalogues of non-HMSO official publications are being examined for their degrees of comprehensiveness . |