Example sentences of "[prep] being [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjects came up with well-organized fantasy sequences after being roused from some periods with high levels of EEG alpha and saccadic eye movements consistent with relaxed wakefulness . |
| 2 | In the Descent of Man , published in eighteen seventy one , he says some intelligent actions , as when birds on oceanic islands first learn to avoid man , after being performed during many generations , become converted into instincts and are inherited . |
| 3 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 4 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 5 | These ‘ cairns ’ , as they are called , can reach enormous proportions , those on the tops of hills being capable in some instances of being seen for many miles . |
| 6 | And later — much later at the National Theatre playing the young Captain Absolute — did that grow out of being seen in these performances ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was conscious of being pleased by such things . |
| 9 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 10 | Polar plants must be capable of being frozen for several months each year , and to undergo repeated freeze-thaw cycles throughout the growing season , even at the height of summer . |
| 11 | It should also be understood that black sportsmen work sedulously at perpetuating their popular image of being relaxed at all times . |
| 12 | On the morning of 13 January Sotheby 's offered Fragonard 's delicate brown wash drawing of ‘ The Garden of a Italian Villa ’ which , despite being featured in several exhibitions in the 1940s and 1950s , had remained unpublished and largely unknown . |
| 13 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 14 | We have heard in this debate that , far from being extinguished by these policies , it is flourishing . |
| 15 | The earthquake differed from most intraplate earthquakes of this size , however , in being followed by few after-shocks , in contrast to the magnitude 5.4 earthquake on the Lleyn Peninsula in 1984 . |
| 16 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |
| 17 | And further he asserts , not only is the universe expanding , due to being flung in all directions by this genetic detonation , but that space itself is also expanding . |
| 18 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 19 | In 1348 they demanded free trade in wool , and in 1351 achieved a definitive victory when the king agreed that the maltote should be granted only in parliament and that all merchants should be permitted to deal in wool ‘ without being restricted by those merchants who call themselves the king 's merchants ’ . |
| 20 | We never thought anything about being mugged in those days , you see , and er and th that 's what happened , as I say , so we took lots and lots of money , |
| 21 | ‘ A highlighter — two tones lighter than your normal foundation — can define cheekbones , make eyes look bigger and slim down a nose merely by being blended into these areas . |