Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly in answer a man got drunk and was pinched for being in charge of a horse and cart the while . |
| 2 | They have come into being over thousands of years . |
| 3 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 4 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 5 | Perhaps most significantly of all , the Irish Free State , now the Republic of Ireland , has come into being as an independent sovereign state distinct from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | In two waves , one in late 1859 , the other in early 1860 , representatives of the various provincial committees which had come into being as a result of the Nazimov Rescript came to St Petersburg to discuss their ideas with the Editing Commissions . |
| 7 | An easy symbiosis had come into being between the cultivated pagan and the educated Christian . |
| 8 | There are in London , for example , Cantonese , Ethiopian , Portuguese and Spanish congregations which have come into being through church planting by a strong congregation from one of the denominations . |
| 9 | Unless the pollsters are confounded , the 217 grant-maintained schools that have come into being since 1989 will be returned to former local authority masters . |
| 10 | A whole succession of international agreements have come into being since then , including the Montreal Protocol to phase out the manufacture and use of ozone-depleting chemicals ( such as CFCs ) and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , which has played a significant role in helping to protect some of the world 's rarest flora and fauna . |
| 11 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 12 | The rejection of both the trust analogy and the doctrine of agency leaves unexplained the situation where a new State has come into being in accordance with a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 13 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |
| 14 | The enthusiasm of official propaganda derived partly from the triumphalism inherent in a regime which had come into being by dint of a military victory , and partly from the need to conceal , or divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 15 | We shall explain its coming into existence as a consequence of gradual , cumulative , step-by-step transformations from simpler things , from primordial objects sufficiently simple to have come into being by chance . |
| 16 | Although at first he had to consolidate his position at home , it was always his ambition to undermine the European order which had come into being after the defeat of his uncle . |
| 17 | Now you ca n't really get a coherent staffing policy within a school in that kind of flux , whereas now people perhaps erm a bit too much at the opposite extreme but nevertheless erm do know that they 're committed to being in the school and have a , therefore a commitment to it , a commitment to improving their own work and , and their collective work . |
| 18 | League champions Derry are resigned to being without Bank of Ireland All Star defender Tony Scullion , until the championship at the earliest . |
| 19 | Malone are already resigned to being without Stuart Duncan and regular number eight Scott Kirkpatrick until next season . |
| 20 | The Ibrox side are resigned to being without the Englishman for the European Cup showdown with Marseille on 7 April because of the automatic one-match ban which he must serve after his sending off against Brugge on Wednesday night . |
| 21 | I did not therefore expect to be invited here and was resigned to being by myself yet again and sure my spirits would once more be lowered . |
| 22 | Helen Wrangham was put on a hospital waiting list last April and has not been treated despite being in constant pain , claims her father Peter , of Hart Station . |
| 23 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 24 | Bruce Reynolds and Buster Edwards were eventually senetnced after being on the run in Mexico . |
| 25 | The Church of England 's General Synod doubts if Freemasonry and Christianity are compatible and the organization is suspected of being behind police corruption , but Royal approval is nevertheless accorded it . |
| 26 | During the meeting of the Special Commission which prepared the preliminary draft of the Convention there was considerable , but inconclusive , discussion of the position which should obtain when service was required on someone strongly suspected of being in a particular country but whose address within the country was unknown . |
| 27 | In Britain , the character of being a mobilizer or a reconciler is not related to being in any one party or being in opposition or government . |
| 28 | For only in the formal processes of the courts was there any common alternative to the use of force ; and in most European countries throughout the period of this book kings and their officers had the greatest difficulty in preventing might from proving stronger than right : disorder was endemic , justice weak — but none the less sought after and admired for being in short supply . |
| 29 | She looked away from him , a faint blush beginning at her jawline , and he knew she was referring to the fact that he had not betrayed her , even though he knew she had lied about being with her mother in Wales . |
| 30 | It is of no surprise to you and I to know that we are in a erm an economic crisis , and , but I think that we might be accused of being in an area that does n't take the fair share of the cuts . |