Example sentences of "and being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What have drowning , suffocating , bleeding and being run over by a steam roller got in common ? |
| 32 | The experience underlined for Cuckney the importance of having clear goals in a crisis and being determined not to waver from the chosen course of action : |
| 33 | I already know there 's no time limit between committing a murder and being charged with it . |
| 34 | One is that the Bill will extend to all consumers in Scotland the option of being able to pay for water by metered charges if they wish , having the amount that they use recorded and being charged direct . |
| 35 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 36 | I remember coming off stage in Rio and being piled into a helicopter to take us back to the hotel . |
| 37 | Right , so you think that Margaret Thatcher , having been Prime Minister for over a decade and having nominated her heir apparent , and having left in erm a rather tearful manner and being pushed out , you think that she said ‘ right , from now on it 's hands off ’ ? |
| 38 | No stripping off and being stood on blocks for the world-weary rich to stare at in lust or mockery . |
| 39 | Metered dose inhalers should be carried with their safety caps on to prevent foreign bodies entering them and being propelled into the bronchial tree when they are discharged . |
| 40 | Some of these designs can be adjusted when the sack is fully loaded and being worn — others have to be adjusted beforehand . |
| 41 | It was as though they had met before , these two , on some other plain or in some other desert , Assessing and being assessed , wanting and being wanted , probing and being probed , they began ( without intending it ) a long , slow dance of self recognition , silently accusing each other , wordlessly accusing themselves . |
| 42 | The final version keyword access , with pupils selecting keywords from questions they Fig. 5.3 have posed as a group and being referred to specific questions in the main body of each record . |
| 43 | She had a knack of breaking hearts and being mystified by the effect . |
| 44 | They remained as members of that Hall for four years , taking no public examinations , and being taught predominantly but not exclusively by teachers attached to the Hall . |
| 45 | In a sense Patrick O'Brian may be said to offer two heroes , each capable both of influencing events and being affected by them . |
| 46 | Here changes in the volume of production , in its methods , and in its cost are ever mutually modifying one another ; they are always affecting and being affected by the character and the extent of demand . [ … ] |
| 47 | New noise standards would then take effect in April 1995 , with emissions rules coming into operation in 1996 and being tightened further in 2003 . |
| 48 | I remember one of them coming over to see us , and being shocked that after a month from our last meeting we were still in the country . |
| 49 | There has always been protection to prevent them from working long hours and being exploited and bullied . |
| 50 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 51 | Different architects and teams of planners produced drawings and even models in the hope of catching his eye and being rewarded with the most prestigious project of their careers . |
| 52 | The first showed an adult playing peacefully with a doll , the second an adult playing aggressively with the doll and the third an adult playing aggressively and being rewarded . |
| 53 | Midfielder who impressed in his first year at Elland Road making several reserve outings and being rewarded with a professional contract . |
| 54 | Senior staff and middle managers having an explicit management role and being trained and developed to do it . |
| 55 | There is a difference between being called a customer and being regarded as one , which seems entirely to have escaped BR . |
| 56 | A device which may be adopted by the drafter to increase the likelihood of terms being accepted and being regarded as reasonable , is to include a justification for the term . |
| 57 | Because there is no numeric keypad added the unit is compact and being built of heavy gauge metal it 'll certainly last . |
| 58 | Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan , current AJK President and leader of the All Jammu and Kashmir Moslem Conference which had won 32 Assembly seats , was named Prime Minister on July 11 after resigning the presidency and being elected unopposed to a parliamentary seat reserved for the ulama . |
| 59 | Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go . |
| 60 | She studied him objectively , as one of her team , and saw a quite reasonably fit , bright boy , hard with nights of climbing over factory walls and across their roofs and being chased by securicor men , quick-witted out of habit , used to an uncomfortable life . |