Example sentences of "[noun] being [vb pp] [prep] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly enough , he never gave a thought to the child being born with such difficulty ; he could only think of his wife . |
| 2 | It was interesting to watch the life of my own room being reproduced in such detail . |
| 3 | This cost consciousness can be generated if you attend certain meetings yourself and lead a discussion about the price being paid for such activity . |
| 4 | While everyone puzzles over how these animals first arrived on the Isle of Man , stories of tailless cats being found in such faraway places as Russia , Malaysia , and China all leading to new theories , nobody seems to have considered that the tailless gene might first have occurred on the Isle of Man itself . |
| 5 | In the case of principal officers and above , they recommended a restriction both on these officers being politically active and on councillors being appointed to such posts ( Widdicombe 1986:113 and 163 ) . |
| 6 | While there are signs that the situation is changing , the reasons for the subject being pervaded by such conservatism and isolationism lie in the history of its development . |
| 7 | Then , time and time again , composers in various categories have felt moved to serenade places located in one London postal area or another , the charts being regaled with such hits as . |
| 8 | He had a sudden vision of the looms which were used to weave cloth being powered by such machines . |
| 9 | The idea being conveyed by such notions as the surrender of private judgment … is that in obeying , say , a command simply because it comes from someone accorded the right to rule , the subject does not make his obedience conditional on his own personal examination and evaluation of the thing he is being asked to do . |