Example sentences of "[verb] [being] [vb pp] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | did n't enjoy being tossed in a blanket , |
| 3 | Just as you may resent being disturbed in the college library , so fellow students do n't enjoy being interrupted in the middle of some important piece of work . |
| 4 | Tough and tender Kathryn takes gold IMAGINE being lost in the wild stretches of the Scottish Highlands , icy northern wind beating heavily against your face and sheets of splintering rain biting deep into your face . |
| 5 | He imagined being shot in the water and it closing over his head , filling his mouth and lungs , the last moments of life choked out of him . |
| 6 | Corbett could smell the heavy , thick fragrance of those mouth-watering dishes he had seen being prepared in the kitchen . |
| 7 | Erm what place erm does the convenor see being made in the legal processes to make available to estranged couples the opportunity for erm voluntary conciliation between the parties ? |
| 8 | Just as you may resent being disturbed in the college library , so fellow students do n't enjoy being interrupted in the middle of some important piece of work . |
| 9 | You did n't like being woken in the middle of the night for ice cream , but you sat up and ate it in bed before it melted to please your father . |
| 10 | The clients appreciate being kept in the picture , even if their stay can not be made shorter . |
| 11 | Mr Lamont knows he must produce a confident up-beat budget if he is to avoid being sacked in the next Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | From the tone of her voice , I thought I was not going to be able to avoid being slung in the box and slipped off the Isle of Wight ferry . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Seton did not appear to resent being replaced in the governorship ; indeed he might even have been somewhat relieved , for it was a grievous responsibility in present circumstances and he had borne it sufficiently long . |
| 18 | Move to the Left , encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation . |
| 19 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 20 | But the operation was not a success , because security at the naval base was far too good and , rather than risk being caught in the act , the plan was dropped . |
| 21 | I do n't think he has ever risked being sued in the history of the paper . |
| 22 | It was also pointed out that there were cuts in the community care , in particular the home help budget , with home helps being restricted in the chores that they are allowed to carry out by law . |
| 23 | It is now finished and fits perfectly although , as yet , I have not worn it , feeling it deserves being kept in a glass case . |
| 24 | What people wanted was food in the shops and a slice of the materialist cake they saw being gobbled in the West . |
| 25 | That nobody can really stand being loved in the ultimate sense . |
| 26 | The test of being an active rebel is clearly inappropriate , since it would exclude the likes of William Shippen , a notorious Jacobite MP who nevertheless avoided being implicated in the " Fifteen . |
| 27 | Elstob , 23 , admitted being carried in the car . |
| 28 | MICHAEL Purtill probably thought he had stopped being featured in the newspapers . |
| 29 | I liked being recognized in the pub afterwards , and made myself conspicuous in case anyone wanted my autograph . |
| 30 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |