Example sentences of "[pron] being [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
| 2 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 3 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |
| 4 | Am I being interviewed as this council 's Environmental Health Officer , or am I being interviewed as a representative of the institution of Environmental Health Officers ? ’ |
| 5 | But Gazzer felt himself being shoved off a cliff into unconsciousness . |
| 6 | In the shadow of their ancestors , right wing Afrikaaners muster to protest at their governments so-called betrayal of the white man , but the man responsible , President F W de Klerk , was himself being welcomed from a successful tour of Europe , where he said ‘ South Africa 's commitment to reform was believed ’ . |
| 7 | Thirdly , the criticism might be made that the distinction I earlier drew ( in the section on ‘ Autonomy ’ ) — between someone voluntarily being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , and their being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desires — is not adequate here . |
| 8 | ( 5 ) The general practice of a fire authority , a practice which is followed in relation to their being consulted by a licensing board under the subsection , in considering the safety of a building and its likely occupants from the risk of fire may be summarised as follows . |
| 9 | Any deal to keep the US shops running is likely to involve their being run on a licence or franchise basis . |
| 10 | The agreement would not however have prevented their being employed as a solicitor etc by the colonial government or local companies . |
| 11 | Artificial insemination by donor ( AID ) , i.e. by a man other than the husband , can be used to achieve fertility where the husband lacks spermatozoa , or is otherwise infertile , or if the husband is a carrier of a genetic disease with a high chance of its being transmitted to a child ; alternatively the husband and wife may both be carriers of the same recessive gene , so that each act of fertilization would have a 25 per cent chance of giving rise to a diseased child . |
| 12 | Some cultural universals can be observed from the work of A H Maslow , who hypothesised a hierarchy of needs , whereby the satisfaction of a lower need will result in its being replaced by a higher need . |
| 13 | The effectiveness of the second vote depends of course on its being assessed on a national basis , not in separate constituencies . |
| 14 | Here the fact that the statement as to mileage done by the second-hand car was not included in the written contract of sale , did not prevent its being treated as a term of that contract . |
| 15 | Most typically , the apparent reality of the object is an effect of its being treated like a painting ; the text frames its object and then refers to it in terms that suggest that it is already represented on a canvas . |
| 16 | New people entering into the occult are reassured that ouija is a genuine part of the occult , despite its being hijacked as a family board game by Waddingtons House of Games . |
| 17 | Of course , the whole thrust of the historic avant-garde , and particularly its celebration here , lies in its being associated with a liberation from bourgeois ideology ; but this is not quite the same as having your revolutionary commitments tested by your aesthetic judgement . |
| 18 | ( 14 ) Section 104 of CA 1985 requires certain conditions to be met ( including an independent valuation and approval by an ordinary resolution of the company ) before a public company ( formed as such ) can ( within two years of its being issued with a certificate entitling it to do business under CA 1985 , s117 ) enter into an agreement to acquire a non-cash asset ( eg shares in the target ) from a subscriber to its memorandum of association which is equal in value to one-tenth or more of the company 's nominal share capital issued at the time or before a company is re-registered as a public company can ( within two years of the date of re-registration ) enter into such an agreement with a person who was a member on the date of re-registration . |
| 19 | Ms Jean Cox , who is currently on placement with us one day each week from Telford College , has asked me if there is any chance of her being employed on a temporary basis in the Library during her Easter break , from 5th to 16th April ( 8 days work ) . |
| 20 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 21 | By spreading power across a wider spectrum it would also make it less likely that any one region , such as Scotland , would find itself being governed by a party that it had rejected by huge margins at the polls . |
| 22 | This relates them to all the other uses of blend and modal dare seen above , dare itself being conceived as a mere possibility , thereby negating or questioning its existence as a reality constituting a before-position with respect to the event performed due to the daring ( that expressed by the infinitive ) . |
| 23 | To answer this question , GHM define ownership as control over the ( residual rights in the ) firm 's assets , the firm itself being viewed as a collection of assets . |
| 24 | The challenge was taken up by Harry Baker , who being provided with a weight placed it in a backet and walked from Halling Institute to Snodland Institute , so winning the bet , but he had more difficulty collecting his winnings . |
| 25 | the honourary member continues er are we being treated to a rerun of the speech made recently because I think it would be more appropriate if the honourable member discussed the orders tonight , otherwise there will be a bit a pruning from the chair . |
| 26 | There was no evidence of copying and the two programs were written in different languages , the original being written in COBOL , the latter one being written in a fourth-generation language called PROGRESS . |
| 27 | " You were wrong about another one being killed in a couple of weeks , Mum , " Joanne said on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 28 | Smugglers ' caves around Shillingham and Elm Gate on the Saltash side still supposedly exist , one being found by a cobbler who lived in the cottage above one and noticed an echo when nailing the boots . |
| 29 | The sample is fixed in position by means of clamps , one being attached to a spring beam above and the other to an adjustable rod R below . |
| 30 | They are also useful as a short term solution where a pair of fish have had to be split with one being housed in a smaller tank used , for example , as a hospital tank . |