Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers representing the 51 who died when the Marchioness pleasure boat sank after being in collision with a dredger on the Thames , have given the owners of the vessels until tomorrow evening to agree to pay full compensation - estimated at between £6m and £7m . |
| 2 | After Yusopov 's reply — which he found despite being in terrible time pressure — the Russian was always likely to escape with a draw . |
| 3 | It came into being following some wider discussions held in 1982 between Age Concern England and the Department of Psychiatry at Guy 's Hospital about the community services provided for dementia sufferers . |
| 4 | The squatter settlements originally came into being through illegal land invasions . |
| 5 | The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society , which held its inaugural exhibition in 1888 , came into being through his initiative . |
| 6 | Moorish Spain came into being over a period of several hundred years — from the period of the first Moslem conquest in the eighth century , to the eventual re-conquest by Christians from the north of the peninsula in the later part of the thirteenth century . |
| 7 | Although ‘ English ’ does have connections with the genuine disciplines of history and philosophy it came into being for cultural rather than disciplinary reasons . |
| 8 | District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which , inter alia , abolished rural district councils . |
| 9 | As soon as people began to build artificial forms and structures , sacred geometry came into being as the pattern , conscious or unconscious , underlying a particular structure . |
| 10 | Capitalism needed the house of correction , and somehow it magically came into being as a result . |
| 11 | It came into being on the groundswell of the earlier federalist enthusiasm , while still being sufficiently limited and pragmatic to be deemed feasible by senior politicians who themselves were keenly interested in fostering moves towards greater and effective cooperation . |
| 12 | The European Economic Community , which came into being on 1 January 1958 , was much less supranational in form than the ECSC . |
| 13 | The Commission came into being on 1 April 1983 . |
| 14 | Although the Scottish Council Development and Industry was formed in 1946 by the merger of the Scottish Council on Industry and the Scottish Development Council , the Scottish National Development Council — the word National was later deleted — came into being on 8th May 1931 and we look forward to marking our Diamond Jubilee Year with several special events throughout Scotland . |
| 15 | The Council came into being on the 8th May 1931 and we have marked our Diamond Jubilee Year with several special events throughout Scotland , and these are described on pages 6 and 7 of this report . |
| 16 | Although the Scottish Council Development and Industry was formed in 1946 by the merger of the Scottish Council on Industry and the Scottish Development Council , the Scottish National Development Council — the word national was later deleted — came into being on 8th May 1931 . |
| 17 | Evil came into being with civilisation . |
| 18 | At the beginning of 1990/91 , under the leadership of Brian Eyre , the businesses came into being with nearly half of all the personnel transferring to business units . |
| 19 | A new settlement system came into being with the creation jointly by the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange of the Central Gilts Office . |
| 20 | In the eighteen-forties , the department stores really came into being with places like Debenham and Freebodys and Selfridges , where everything could be purchased under one roof , which made things much easier . |
| 21 | In the first half of 1858 gentry committees like those which the Nazimov Rescript set up in the north-western provinces came into being throughout the European part of the empire . |
| 22 | That road came into being after the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 23 | That road came into being after the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 24 | Run by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society the five and a quarter mile line came into being after the search for a branch line home elsewhere in Scotland had failed to bring success . |
| 25 | The new agreement , which came into being after a year of negotiations between the Association 's solicitors and those at the EC Commission , has been drastically amended to meet the requirements of the Treaty . |
| 26 | We need , therefore , to examine the role of these guilds to see how and why the trade of undertaker came into being before deciding whether or not to cast our lot with The London Tradesman . |
| 27 | The kind of society which came into being in Europe was a more homogeneous Christian society , less differentiated than Augustine 's . |
| 28 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 29 | But , in the same ten-year period , no less than 1,278 new families came into being in the city , with the result that the number of houses built fell short of the number required . |
| 30 | I had forgotten that before the war there had been no Women 's Auxiliary Air Force to build barrack blocks for , as the Force only came into being in 1939 . |