Example sentences of "[prep] being [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amendments shall enter into force after being ratified by all Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements . ’ |
| 2 | GLADIATORS TV presenter Ulrika Jonson has confessed to ‘ marital problems ’ after being pictured with another man . |
| 3 | The doors , after being fitted in this gauge , were handed over to the coach finishers , who fitted the casing boards , either of walnut or mahogany . |
| 4 | ‘ After being approached by several manufacturing companies it became obvious that the manufacturing aspect to our business could be handled by others , leaving us free to concentrate on our core business the design , specification and installation side . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere . |
| 10 | The Pioneer Corps was non-combatant , though volunteers had to accept the risks ‘ of being employed in any theatre of war ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 13 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 14 | The arbitrary implications of undefinable rights are particularly evident where the right claimed is by its nature not capable of being satisfied by any degree of compulsion exercised within the relevant society . |
| 15 | In Filliter v. Phippard the word ‘ accidentally ’ was interpreted restrictively so as to cover only ‘ a fire produced by mere chance or incapable of being traced to any cause . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | She had no intention of being accepted by this family . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And later — much later at the National Theatre playing the young Captain Absolute — did that grow out of being seen in these performances ? |
| 20 | Because conflict often involves the awareness of being wronged in some way , unresolved past experiences of unfairness , injury or maltreatment can have a powerful effect as we react and respond to more contemporary occurrences . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was conscious of being pleased by such things . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My Lords , this appeal raises the question whether two decisions of your Lordships ' House upon the proper construction of certain provisions of the Theft Act 1968 are capable of being reconciled with each other , and , if so , in what manner . |
| 26 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 27 | Conversely , an object affixed to realty but capable of being removed without much difficulty may yet be a fixture , if , for example , the purpose of its affixing be that " of creating a beautiful room as a whole " ( Neville J In Re Whaley [ 1908 ] 1 Ch 615 , 619 ) … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |