Example sentences of "[verb] [being] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 2 | Maisie particularly enjoyed being spanked with a hairbrush , and liked to accompany this activity with a series of clear , confident expressions of her need to be disciplined . |
| 3 | M. B. I never forget being called by a superintendent , who said : ‘ Sergeant Bullock , you 're acting inspector over the weekend . |
| 4 | ‘ The repeated testing is leading to problems in that animals now associate being put in a crush with being tested and one can get considerable stress in older animals . |
| 5 | did n't enjoy being tossed in a blanket , |
| 6 | Neither Whitehall , nor government nor this county council , nor the children we 're talking about would welcome being used as a political football by Mr . |
| 7 | In Webster v Higgin [ 1948 ] 2 All ER 127 a clause which provided that " no warranty is given " did not prevent a statement which had previously been made being construed as an express warranty . |
| 8 | But I I do n't like being treated like a child ! |
| 9 | She would want another half later , but she did n't like being faced with a full pint all at once . |
| 10 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 11 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 12 | I do n't like being accused of a crime I did n't commit , cos I admit to things I do . |
| 13 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 14 | He was worried that a dairymaid might leave the dairy , and then her cows would not like being milked by a stranger . |
| 15 | AD 695 that travellers from afar , or foreigners , are instructed to shout or blow a horn before leaving a road , to avoid being treated as a thief or worse ; this says as much about the controls placed on the English population as the desire to protect foreigners . |
| 16 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it is important to avoid being pushed into a corner . |
| 18 | What one understands to be the use of computers in spectroscopy is very much a matter of personal prejudice , and care must be taken to avoid being misled by a general title such as this . |
| 19 | The leader of the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) Hocine Aït Ahmed ( quoted in El Pais of July 19 ) said that the army should withdraw to avoid being drawn into a power struggle within the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) ; FIS leaders should be brought to trial before civil rather than military tribunals . |
| 20 | So I ran off to Beirut to avoid being put into an orphanage . |
| 21 | The Middle East Economic Digest of May 4 reported that Hrawi reacted cautiously to Geaga 's offer in order " to avoid being put in a situation in which his troops could be compromised " . |
| 22 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 23 | Britain had at all costs to avoid being engulfed in a war of succession between Muslims and Hindus , and the only way to do this was to hand over , while there was still time , not to one but to two successor states . |
| 24 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 25 | One poster to be displayed on Tube carriages will ask passengers to imagine being trapped in a carriage with 600 other people for 35 hours without food and water . |
| 26 | He added that Mr Major would have warned the Queen that she risked being dragged into a political storm . |
| 27 | Yeltsin 's support at the forthcoming Congress , he warned , risked being diminished as a result of a campaign to deprive ministers of their powers as deputies , and he felt that he would be more useful working for Yeltsin at the Congress than in government . |
| 28 | Move to the Left , encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation . |
| 29 | Strangely , Shepherd seems to have shown little interest in the effects of the electric media ; indeed , his account of the present-day situation assumes an even tighter grip by the ‘ industrial world sense ’ , the system created by literacy and print being generalized as a ‘ symbolic-technological filter ’ which regulates the processes of communication vital to socialisation and the creation of consciousness ’ ( Shepherd 1982 : 149–50 ) . |
| 30 | I , do n't mind being used as a guinea pig because I feel that it 'll help people in the future . |