Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] being [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This body of thought , comprising the major contribution of social scientists in the twentieth century to the understanding of political life , has three essential elements : an economic sociology , a political sociology and a profound concern with long-term structural changes in society ; the last of them being described by several of these thinkers ( Weber and Schumpeter among them ) as involving an ‘ economic interpretation of history ’ . |
| 2 | Although the substances treated in this work were not categorized as precious primarily on account of their economic value , the mere fact of their being accepted as such , combined with their scarcity in nature , inevitably led to their being used to serve economic ends . |
| 3 | ‘ It would however be quite unreasonable to expect the accidents were never to happen when the wire gauze lamps are used ; for it must be remembered , setting aside the chance of their being damaged by some of the casualties incidental to coal mining , they are to be entrusted to the management of a body of men among whom negligent individuals will be found . ’ |
| 4 | Vice-Principal of the London College of Massage , Isabelle Hughes , is so convinced of its being offered to any runners who have run the London Marathon this year . |
| 5 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 6 | The accomplice becomes an enemy , and in due course a victim , at which point he can only salute the irony of his being executed on All Souls , Day : ‘ This is the day wherein I wished to fall/By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ’ ( V.i . |
| 7 | Since many drunken drivers succeed in killing only themselves , the odds against anyone being killed by another drunken driver are even longer . |
| 8 | After more than 16 hours of auctioning , every one of the 1,000 lots had found buyers , with none being sold for less than low estimate and many soaring to 10 times estimate . |
| 9 | And the FUW also advises against allowing one or two vehicles on to farm land for several days or it may be interpreted by travellers as ‘ acquiescence ’ to their trespass and may result in them being joined by many more travellers . |
| 10 | Perhaps the value of this single word lies in its being repeated by another whistling beak , in its not being forgotten during the interval of silence . |
| 11 | Secondly , the integrity of pastoral systems and management processes is contingent upon their being reflected in all aspects of school management . |
| 12 | Tom Walkinshaw offers his personal guarantee for any shortfall , conditional upon him being released from any liabilities or claims under the Companies Act . |
| 13 | Some of them , such as mental confusion , incontinence and difficulty seeing and hearing , may have contributed to them being admitted to such homes . |
| 14 | An implication of differentiation theory but not of the associative theory , therefore , is that mere exposure to a pair of stimuli without their being followed by any special consequences should be enough to enhance their discriminability . |
| 15 | The high esteem in which gold has been held in most parts of the world , the relative ease with which it can be wrought and not least its capacity for combining with other desirable things have led to its being favoured above all others for jewellery , objects of parade and a variety of insignia of status . |
| 16 | I have to say that I did n't see them in their homes prior to their being admitted at all . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've explained it to him and it 's not fair on him being exposed to some of our defending in recent weeks . ’ |
| 18 | I asked to have one of the family present when I opened the safe but Gerald objects to it being opened at all without their solicitor being present . |
| 19 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |