Example sentences of "and being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts , advances on each side took the form of genetic mutations arising and being favoured by natural selection . |
| 2 | The Treatises supported such arguments , and it was his having , and being suspected by the government of having , such seditious views that made it necessary for Locke to flee to Holland in 1683 . |
| 3 | Kersey went to the bar and had to wait while a group of fishermen jointly related to the landlord a story of putting into an Irish port for shelter and being suspected by the Garda of gunrunning for the IRA . |
| 4 | Now the men were scattered and being hunted down like wild animals . |
| 5 | Stella was torn between getting it right and being manhandled by Meredith . |
| 6 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 7 | The theory of heredity as it existed in the 1940s , then , was one of genes linearly arranged along chromosomes , influencing the characteristics of the organisms in which they found themselves , and being transmitted via egg and sperm to the next generation . |
| 8 | The Maltese government has repeatedly denied allegations that the suitcase bomb that blew up flight 103 originated in Malta , travelling on an Air Malta flight to Frankfurt and being transferred to the Pan Am flight . |
| 9 | This whole thing of the bride being , well often not , but frogmarched down the aisle and being transferred from being her father 's property to being her husband 's property |
| 10 | The hope is that data-base technology is both extending the hyper-medium and being extended by it . |
| 11 | Earlier in the week their Paddling Challenge , the oldest canoe race in the world , had seen several of the overseas competitors joining in without stopping even to unload their vehicles when they arrived and being joined by a number of prominent paddlers from the past . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While participating in the second Rugby World Cup was a great learning experience for the United States national team ( despite a 0–3 record and being outscored 113–24 ) , for US rugby this recent World Championship was a promotional disappointment . |
| 14 | Nothing had ever felt quite so right as finding herself in Nevil 's arms and being kissed by him . |
| 15 | She would not think of kissing and being kissed before the white eyes of the Virgin . |
| 16 | My earliest memory was being handed around a railway carriage in the Waverley station , Edinburgh , and being kissed by a crowd of drunken Gordon Highlander Reservists on their way to their depot in Aberdeen , to join the colours . |
| 17 | The volatile combination of passion and laughter was so overwhelming that Virginia shut her eyes and tangled her fingers in the ruffled dark hair and began to drown in the exquisite taste and texture and sensation of kissing Guy and being kissed back very comprehensively in return . |
| 18 | I mean they 're very pleased with him because he 's the front man having appeared on the Anneka Rice thing and being kissed by Anneka Rice in the full view of millions I mean John can do no wrong by r by Johnathan I doubt it . |
| 19 | The Croatian leadership accused Serbia of planning to settle Serbs in the areas which were falling under JNA control and being vacated by the Croatian population . |
| 20 | Undealt with ancient hurts may insist on standing up and being noticed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The idea of someone performing a song and being made out to be a god or whatever … it 's very strange . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So , if you ever see anyone roaring along the street on a motorbike wearing a suit of armour with a carpet in his mouth and being pelted with armadillos , you 'll know what he 's been up to … |
| 29 | ‘ In prison they were intensively tortured , including electric sticks to the breasts and being beaten by rifles , sticks , handcuffs and chains . ’ |
| 30 | Yes and it 's it 's the the bending and being beaten into sheets and moulding . |