Example sentences of "[conj] being made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or being made bankrupt . |
| 2 | Fear of failure or being made to look foolish in front of others ( especially patients and junior staff ) . |
| 3 | Here at ZZAP ! we 're very good at spotting ripped-off software , but should one slip through the net it 's the sender who 'd be in trouble — this could mean a hefty fine and possible imprisonment if you 're lucky , or being made to eat your own entrails if I catch you before the software company ! |
| 4 | The drawing of inferences is an essential part of discourse interpretation because very often essential information is implied rather than being made explicit . |
| 5 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it could n't be worse than being made to fight in a war that is nothing to do with me . |
| 7 | He 's as well sit pushing papers around pretending to be busy but drawing the salary than being made redundant which is what ought to be happening . |
| 8 | It looks better on your record than being made redundant |
| 9 | Napoli is also a very popular variety , having coarser lumps of flat than the Milano and being made with a mixture of pork and beef . |
| 10 | Hebrews 5.8–9 tells us that : ‘ Although he was a Son , he learned obedience through what he suffered ; and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him . ’ |
| 11 | If she stayed in England with him , she 'd learn much faster than shovelling horse-shit in New Zealand and being made to get up early in the morning . |
| 12 | She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters : from her mother dying when she was six years old , through to the latest traumas of seeing her cat killed by a car and being made redundant . |
| 13 | ‘ The idea of someone performing a song and being made out to be a god or whatever … it 's very strange . |
| 14 | It also holds monthly meetings , and being made up solely of people with an interest in children 's books — mainly publishers and booksellers but also authors , illustrators , agents and critics — it is a useful talking shop with no particular stance or axe to grind . |
| 15 | He says more old people are being assaulted and being made the victims of con men , and he wants the police to be more helpful in putting the group in touch with those who need help . |
| 16 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 17 | Each human being strives to keep himself or herself going in their own particular character , but being made up of parts , those parts which have any kind of individuality also try to keep themselves going . |
| 18 | And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more . |
| 19 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 20 | The tradition of the non-political civil service demands that ministers should be helped to put their ideas into practice , while being made aware of the pitfalls ; but impartial civil servants should not put political ideas into ministers ' heads . |
| 21 | It will even take account of the fact that some relevant objects may not be described as ‘ wooden ’ at all , but as being made of ‘ beech ’ , ‘ mahogany ’ , ‘ deal ’ or the like . |
| 22 | The number systems we use as yardsticks should be thought of as being made not of wood but of elastic which can be stretched or shrunk to our convenience . |
| 23 | This is because the repayment of tax is treated as being made in respect of the accounting period in which the surplus ACT arose ( as opposed to the periods in which it was offset ) ( s 825(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 24 | But in my case an exception was made , and girls from the year below mine were moved above me in House Order , as well as being made monitors who had special privileges . |
| 25 | Women , however , were still perceived as being made of a different metal and , in spite of Mill , their voting remained an absurd and scandalous project for many decades after ‘ manhood suffrage ’ became a reality . |
| 26 | The " image " or " likeness " of God ( 1:27 ) : of all creation , only man ( including both man and woman ) is described as being made in God 's likeness . |
| 27 | An extremely useful model of the meaning of a word , which can be extracted from the contextual relations , is one in which it is viewed as being made up , at least in part , of the meanings of other words . |
| 28 | Each paradigm will regard the world as being made up of different kinds of things . |
| 29 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 30 | Payments thus demanded colore officii are regarded by the law as being made under duress . |