Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could penetrate that world of her unshakeable convictions but the humility of being exposed and shattered by the ugly girl with her outspoken rudeness , significantly called Mary Grace . |
| 2 | But I could not stand the humiliation of crossing the Allenby Bridge — at my age , being stripped and searched by a Zionist , Jew , a Pole , a Russian or a Romanian who is living in my country , in my home , asking me questions and searching me . |
| 3 | Grasping her conference handbook tightly , she took her place in the queue where , she had been told last night over supper , she ran the risk of being stripped and searched by an army of discharged traffic wardens . |
| 4 | Before the " off , " Nick Faldo watched his practice swing on instant play-back video , while millions of words were still being uttered and written about the " greatest , biggest and most hyped Ryder Cup ever staged " . |
| 5 | In other words , the success of user education as a continuous process between each of the educational sectors depends on the success of education itself being regarded and pursued as a continuous process . |
| 6 | They can also be classified by frequency , Some are published weekly , others monthly and yet others bimonthly or quarterly , and the " lead times ' or periods between material being received and appearing in the magazine can vary from three or four days to six months more an important point to bear in mind when planning a press campaign . |
| 7 | Then , where δ is the fraction so that the Goldbach–Rehage formula above becomes or This can be written in terms of , the relaxation time at the glass temperature , since where is a shift factor and Hence or , if the material is being heated or cooled at a rate we have where is the decrement of the expansion coefficient of the glass and , as before . |
| 8 | At the inaugural session on Sept. 4 Rawlings asserted , however , that the emerging " New World Order " was in fact merely a continuation of the familiar superpower monopoly , in that the 4,000 million people in the developing countries were still being crushed and undermined by the economic interests of the developed world . |
| 9 | Mr Hunt said Diaz lost control when he felt he was being insulted and goaded by the other group of people . |
| 10 | Often on a business transfer , parties to contracts with the vendor will need to consent to or agree to the contract being assigned or novated to the purchaser . |
| 11 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
| 12 | I experienced my hands being numb and slightly swollen , then being pressed or clasped by an unseen force . |
| 13 | Today they are being rewired and repainted in a new livery , giving them a handsome appearance which belies their fifty years . |
| 14 | Once an elite has established itself , it may well find itself being emulated or used as a reference group by ‘ lower ’ social classes . |
| 15 | They should be placed where horses can have free access to them without the fear of being trapped and hurt by a more aggressive horse higher in the pecking order . |
| 16 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 17 | The spawning was a brief affair with some thousand or so eggs being scattered and fertilised in a matter of seconds . |
| 18 | So , as part of the briefing process , Orpington employees and their families were taken on day trip coach tours to Stevenage so that they could visit the site where the new offices were being built and look at the types of houses and facilities available in the area . |
| 19 | A spokesman said as much as 70 per cent of the food being airlifted and trucked into the city might be disappearing from the distribution system . |
| 20 | Some of the world 's rarest cetaceans , such as the narwhal , beluga , and harbour porpoise , are still being hunted and killed in the high latitudes of the Arctic . |
| 21 | Tony , 37 , bursts into a plush restaurant where Sharon , 41 , is being wined and dined by a romantic Italian rival for her affections . |
| 22 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 23 | Not to look for sophisticated legal arguments while people are being shot and killed in the streets . |
| 24 | Rather , in Gilroy 's words : New types of class relations are being shaped and reproduced in the novel economic conditions which we inhabit . |
| 25 | It was a sweltering hot afternoon : acres of pale , pimply flesh were being uncovered and exposed to the sun . |
| 26 | ‘ Am I okay , here ? ’ she said , and Coco/Jeanette said , ‘ Sure , ’ and pointed to a place alongside her where Lucy could stand and see a part of the performance without any risk of being seen or getting in the way . |
| 27 | Like every church , like every Christian organisation , there were things being said and done in the Christian family in Rome that should not be said and done in a fellowship of Christ 's people . |
| 28 | Questions of colonialism and invasion are interwoven with a personalised pain coming from a different direction : a child 's body being invaded and infringed by an adult . |
| 29 | Furthermore , health authorities could no longer discharge patients without an individual care plan being approved and agreed with the local authority . |
| 30 | By the 1650s those to and from all foreign diplomats in London were being opened and copied in the Post Office ; and in 1665 the French ambassador acknowledged that the English " have tricks to open letters more skilfully than anywhere in the world " . |