Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] being [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait awhile ; the troops there were drilling in preparation for being shipped to some Godforsaken town in the Low Countries to wage one of Fat Henry 's futile , forgotten wars . |
| 2 | Sotheby 's case for being discharged from this hugely expensive and embarrassing case rested on the argument that it was merely the custodian of the treasure , was unaware that its export licences from the Lebanon had been fraudulently acquired , and that it had no further interest in the treasure . |
| 3 | The amendments shall enter into force after being ratified by all Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements . ’ |
| 4 | She had no intention of being accepted by this family . |
| 5 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 6 | This surplus is the effect of the radical alterity of the other , whether as ‘ face ’ or as death , which prevents the totality from being constituted as such . |
| 7 | Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way . |
| 8 | But to stretch himself to the limit should be the pride and destiny of every man , and she shared , in that part of her being that was not maternal , Paul 's disappointment at being excluded from such a brotherhood . |
| 9 | In his first pleasure at being admitted to this inner circle of learning he had compared it to Dante 's Paradiso , in which the saints and patriarchs and virgins sat in orderly ranks in a circular formation , a huge rose , and also the leaves of a huge volume , once scattered through the universe , now gathered . |
| 10 | As women , we can feel a dread of being overtaken by this archetype . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the passenger in the second car was reliving the horror of being towed at such great speed . |
| 12 | Revealing that they had cystic fibrosis at job interviews reduced likelihood of being employed for those with mild to moderate disease . |
| 13 | The former soldier said : ‘ It was a bit like being mortared at any time . |
| 14 | Johnson , after a moment of being stung at this carelessness , dismissed it as ‘ rather an inconvenience than a loss ’ , and went on to use the incident to defend his views on the second sight . |
| 15 | Guinea-worm infestation , however , had been dramatically reduced , with under 3,000,000 current sufferers , and the disease was on the point of being eradicated in several countries including India and Pakistan . |
| 16 | Asylum procedures exist to ensure the protection of those genuinely at risk , but they are in danger of being undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration . |
| 17 | Similarly , a figure of three lines enclosing a space , which is the idea we have of a triangle , has various properties as a consequence of being constructed in that way , properties such as having internal angles equal to two right angles , and external angles equal to internal opposites . |
| 18 | Fly your rocket ship to Saturn , enter a top secret institute of technology , find and deactivate the deadly TechnoBombs on 12 levels to save the planet from being blown into another Galaxy and then fly home for tea . |
| 19 | For many , investment business activity carries with it the very real threat of punitive action , whether arising from failure to comply properly with the regulations or , worse still , from committing the criminal offence of conducting investment business without being authorised at all . |
| 20 | Even in that very emotional moment , I felt a little twinge of uneasiness at being embraced by this huge , odd-smelling , odd-coloured man . |
| 21 | Neva 's heart nearly burst within her for pride and joy at being chosen by such a noble knight . |
| 22 | It is certainly true that the priorities favoured by one style of management have no guarantee of being upheld by another . |
| 23 | Geophysics represents 10% of the 700 theses included in the full Rolfe and Will lists , and so clearly geophysical papers have a disproportionately greater chance of being published in this journal than research on general or structural geology . |
| 24 | If you live in a medium-risk area you stand a one in 35 chance of being burgled in any year . |
| 25 | A towel will be required to dry off your pet , and it is a good idea to accustom a puppy to being dried in this fashion , as well as with a hair-dryer . |
| 26 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 27 | They have just three days to brush up their technique before being plunged into another confrontation with their conquerors in Bombay on Friday . |
| 28 | Given the recent record of local government in Manchester and Liverpool , constituents in Lancashire and Cheshire would be appalled at the prospect of being governed from either of those places . |
| 29 | On August 19th , Palme Dutt — revealing a capacity to assess political realities independently of the Moscow line which , in all his long years as Britain 's foremost guardian of Communist orthodoxy , he was seldom to repeat — insisted the issue was ‘ not essentially a revolutionary class issue , but simply an expression of war-weariness and horror at the prospect of being dragged into another war . ’ |
| 30 | Thus , if the creditor knew that the debtor hoped to pay his debt to that creditor from a contract which the debtor was about to enter into , the creditor can not subsequently claim that the prospect of being paid from that source is not a reasonable prospect . |