Example sentences of "that being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably what accounts for the fact that being featured in one of those articles entitled ‘ Faces to Watch in the New Year ’ , or worse , ‘ Who Will Be Who in the Coming Decade ’ is almost inevitably a ticket to total oblivion . |
| 2 | We find that being cast in the role of external stimulator does serve a useful function . |
| 3 | Maybe it was the fear of going anywhere near the angst-ridden territory so comprehensively covered by The Smiths , maybe it was the fact that being stoned out of your mind was suddenly fashionable again — but neither the baggy bunch nor the floppy-fringed waifs who enjoyed the post-Madchester plaudits came anywhere near the kind of emotional rush peddled by Morrissey 's men . |
| 4 | Of the sample 49 per cent felt that being pestered by men was inevitable . |
| 5 | Well I , I can , I mean if , if somebody erm , objects to the fact that being recorded and let's say erm private business meeting or something in that sense |
| 6 | And it was n't happening the way she 'd imagined … abruptly , she realised that being kissed by Guy Sterne was nothing remotely like being kissed by any other man she 'd ever known in her life . |
| 7 | In my own relatively trivial example what struck me forcefully was the assumption that being born in Canada seemed to make me more ‘ one of us ’ in the Immigration Officer 's eyes than ‘ one of them ’ , despite the fact that , within terms of the European Community , being Irish should make me far more of an insider . |
| 8 | No we said that 's how we were going to define us , erm define it , I distinctly remember that being said it would be defined |
| 9 | In her short experience of travelling with the Doctor , she had found that being saved from certain death entailed the likelihood of suffering a fate that was even worse . |
| 10 | ‘ I was a very pretty boy , ’ Jeffrey Bernard admits , adding that being picked up by Minton was a little like becoming Long John Silver 's parrot . |
| 11 | There 's little evidence to suggest that being delivered by Caesarean section is any more harmful to the baby than a natural birth . |
| 12 | Her evidence was that being interviewed by two senior police officers had put her in considerable fear and trepidation and that her confession was accordingly not a true one . |
| 13 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 14 | It 's proven that being surrounded by like-minded people is itself inspirational . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was hoped that being housed in schools the education authority would maintain continuity ; none did so . |
| 16 | Gough could always write back to the Scottish League — as he is obliged to do this week in response to the management committee 's request for his views on United 's complaint over Ferguson — and point out that being forced to go to such lengths to contain his opponent proves he was correct to covet the forward for his team . |
| 17 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 18 | Her mother had pointed out to her that being married to an older man had its advantages . |
| 19 | He says that being put in the seclusion room was right . |
| 20 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has revealed that being depicted as a turnip has deeply hurt him and his family and has created hate mail . |
| 21 | The field officer 's sense of autonomy derives from the fact that being allocated to districts on a geographical basis designed around river catchments gives him a personal territorial jurisdiction over which he presides . |