Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst moment , apart from his father 's collapse while being helped to the toilet , had been going on stage on the night of his death , and hearing Lydia Dorinskaya say , ‘ All that lives must die , /Passing through Nature to eternity . ’ |
| 2 | But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong . |
| 3 | He identified pharmacy , high energy physics and architecture as being over-represented in the universities . |
| 4 | Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife . |
| 5 | Some of these died in captivity while being brought to the coast from the African homeland , and even more lost their lives in the brutal conditions on board the slave ships during the notorious Atlantic crossing or ‘ Middle Passage ’ . |
| 6 | He cites Luthce 's ability to claim that truth was ‘ immanent ’ in the text of the bible as being associated with the growth of printing in his time ( Rommetveit , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | There has always been a temptation to regard the successive recommitments to the central political purpose of the Community as being confined to the small print , to be accepted only through gritted teeth and only on our terms . |
| 8 | In August 1916 , a car of this class was fitted with large hoops over the ends of the upper deck to protect passengers from being struck by the trolley pole when being turned in the blackout or from a broken spring . |
| 9 | This person was in fact an undischarged bankrupt who wrote to the plaintiff as being recommended by the editor and who misappropriated the funds sent to him by the plaintiff for investment . |
| 10 | John had described the do-it-yourself plutonium bomb as being shaped like the barrel of a small cannon . |
| 11 | The former approach sees behaviour as being influenced by the structure of society . |
| 12 | John Paton , defined ILP policy as being based on the Socialism in our Time programme . |
| 13 | Willis described the elements of the culture of the shop floor as being hinged around the execution of hard work . |
| 14 | Under Queen Anne parties of a modern kind did not exist ; but it is possible to speak without gross inaccuracy of Parliament and the politically active part of the nation as being divided for the most part into Whigs and Tories . |
| 15 | Sadly she had no chance to make amends , for she suffered a setback in training when being prepared for the Doncaster Cup and was retired . |
| 16 | For the farm worker may regard his dependence upon his employer as being mitigated by the increasingly close and harmonious relationship which the two sides maintain . |
| 17 | He cruised along contentedly on the bridle until being sent into the lead a quarter of a mile out and then galloped on resolutely to win by one and a half lengths . |
| 18 | Africanus ' answer ( no doubt , as often , he was following Julian ) was to construe the trust as being charged on the heir : he was being requested to abandon his claim against the debtor and cede it to the third-party beneficiary . |
| 19 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 20 | Most of these reprints will have been requested by the prospective user , and others will have been sent by authors who recognise that user as being involved within the same specialism , and so such higher use is not unexpected . |
| 21 | Thirdly , and most importantly for our purposes , the natural-entity theory overcame the problems of the artificiality in the case of large companies of analysing the directors ' managerial power as being derived from the contractual agreement of the shareholders . |