Example sentences of "[conj] [being] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say this led to several incidents because the cattle came direct from farms and were not accustomed to being in pens or being handled by the general public . |
| 2 | This started a real rough and tumble , with people falling or being pushed to the ground amongst the debris . |
| 3 | Then there is this subsequent experience which follows receiving or being filled with the Holy Spirit . |
| 4 | Being the wrong age , being in the wrong place at the wrong time , or being domiciled in a particular district reverse the assumptions of due process . |
| 5 | There is , however , little evidence that integration as defined by Cunningham et al ( 24 ) is occurring in practice in Scotland or being implemented as a national policy . |
| 6 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 7 | Intimate fantasies include activities like making love with someone you love , or at least know ; enjoying alfresco sex ; oral sex ; or being masturbated by a favourite partner . |
| 8 | An expensive composite construction may be very fast , easy to lug about ashore , but will it stand the knocks of inexperienced users or being dragged across the pebbles or concrete sides of a reservoir ? |
| 9 | Yet thousands of people do in effect do this when they reject religion because of the hypocrisy , superstition and dogmatism of some of its advocates , and when they accept religion because of their own taste for status , a safe life , or being hypnotized by the magnetism of some charismatic figure . |
| 10 | The conditions which can be imposed by the LA to reflect environmental considerations are limited to the means of entry and exit for authorized vehicles , times for vehicular access , parking arrangements for vehicles , and the number , type and size of authorized vehicles parked or being maintained at the operating centre . |
| 11 | Counsel rise to their feet when addressing or being addressed by the court . |
| 12 | But the New Testament teaches us , that apart from that new birth by the spirit , and that indwelling of Jesus Christ in our lives by the spirit , there is a subsequent experience that is called receiving or being baptized as a Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | If there is no issue , but there are parents , or , failing them , brothers and sisters of the whole blood , then the spouse takes half the remaining estate absolutely , the other half going to parents , or being held on the ‘ statutory trusts ’ for brothers and sisters , as the case may be . |
| 14 | Goal congruence : employee and organization share the same goals ( e.g. a football team , a religious society ) ; the reward is an emotional wellbeing from believing in or being committed to a superordinate goal . |
| 15 | De Klerk stressed the need for " built-in guarantees and mechanisms which would prevent South Africa from falling into a one-party state or being delivered into the hands of an irrational dictator " . |
| 16 | The infant learns to talk of hearing its mother in the garden , smelling hamburgers cooking in the kitchen , or seeing the dog enjoying itself with a ball or being hurt by the cat . |
| 17 | Half the class refused to go to the lessons , frightened of being set on fire or being thrown through a window , but Endill liked the suspense of waiting to see what each mixture did next . |
| 18 | We find that being cast in the role of external stimulator does serve a useful function . |
| 19 | Her mother had pointed out to her that being married to an older man had its advantages . |
| 20 | He says that being put in the seclusion room was right . |
| 21 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has revealed that being depicted as a turnip has deeply hurt him and his family and has created hate mail . |
| 22 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 23 | In this way a whole host of potential ‘ personnel ’ problems such as lack of motivation/commitment and grievances are prevented , rather than being fuelled by a ‘ closing down ’ of the decision-making process . |
| 24 | The poor internal self-image is reflected outwards onto other people and onto external circumstances rather than being recognised as the diseased part of self . |
| 25 | They were sometimes denied the authority necessary for the fulfilment of their expected role , and it was critically important that they were seen as part of a school 's management team rather than being relegated to the position of mere facilitator . |
| 26 | Being married to even a would-be politician involves many sacrifices which may achieve no more than being landed with a morose husband ( or wife ) hanging round the house for the next four or five years . |
| 27 | The politburo was also retained , rather than being replaced by a party presidium , although in keeping with the proposals for the latter body the politburo was now to include the leaders of the parties in the 15 republics . |
| 28 | With no soil fauna , organic material tends to lie on the surface rather than being incorporated into the sand . |
| 29 | Apart from the use of quarterly data , the main difference in this study is that the current monetary shock is included in the output equation rather than being incorporated in the error term , in what — ADD demonstrate — is an asymptotically efficient estimation procedure . |
| 30 | Farm drainage ditches ensure that water runs directly into streams rather than being filtered through the soil . |