Example sentences of "[conj] being [vb pp] by [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Counsel rise to their feet when addressing or being addressed by the court . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The only departure from the established procedure lay in the fact that the copy of the order seems to have been served upon or issued to M. 's solicitors by the court rather than being served by the applicant 's solicitor . |
| 10 | Rather than being rewarded by the social security system , that home owner suffered a disadvantage . |
| 11 | Being struck by light , the Inspectors informed me , was statistically even less probable than being struck by a bolt of lightning . |
| 12 | It is more likely the Goblin will be smashed apart — which although sad is considered a good way to go for a Goblin and infinitely better than being eaten by a peckish troll . |
| 13 | Higher education staff see their academic imprimatur as more important in career terms than being accepted by a commercial publisher . |
| 14 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Expenditure patterns should relate to outputs rather than being characterised by a list of resource inputs . |
| 16 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 17 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 18 | The strategy which controls the frequency , duration and destination is usually set up on a systems availability base rather than being controlled by the quantity of data to be transferred and its " design delay " costs . |
| 19 | Yet it is hard to think of a worse ordeal for a political leader than being urged by the party of which he is head to sever relations with his wife . |
| 20 | The Treatises supported such arguments , and it was his having , and being suspected by the government of having , such seditious views that made it necessary for Locke to flee to Holland in 1683 . |
| 21 | Kersey went to the bar and had to wait while a group of fishermen jointly related to the landlord a story of putting into an Irish port for shelter and being suspected by the Garda of gunrunning for the IRA . |
| 22 | Earlier in the week their Paddling Challenge , the oldest canoe race in the world , had seen several of the overseas competitors joining in without stopping even to unload their vehicles when they arrived and being joined by a number of prominent paddlers from the past . |
| 23 | My earliest memory was being handed around a railway carriage in the Waverley station , Edinburgh , and being kissed by a crowd of drunken Gordon Highlander Reservists on their way to their depot in Aberdeen , to join the colours . |
| 24 | The Croatian leadership accused Serbia of planning to settle Serbs in the areas which were falling under JNA control and being vacated by the Croatian population . |
| 25 | She had a knack of breaking hearts and being mystified by the effect . |
| 26 | Here changes in the volume of production , in its methods , and in its cost are ever mutually modifying one another ; they are always affecting and being affected by the character and the extent of demand . [ … ] |
| 27 | But instead , he ended up a deserter and being chased by the police for a killing that was forced on him , and that 's something he does not have to accept — and neither do I. ’ |
| 28 | I remember sitting in the cockpit and being cooked by the sun for a few hours , but we were never scrambled . ’ |
| 29 | Yet as the company grew in size it was plain that much economic activity was being withdrawn from the sphere of the market and being replaced by a hierarchical , bureaucratic organization within the company . |
| 30 | In the school context , the information skills and computerized information retrieval are an integral part of the syllabus , reinforcing and being reinforced by the syllabus units . |