Example sentences of "[conj] being [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barthes develops an idea of discourse that is evocative of the text as something being read , or being written to be read . |
| 2 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 3 | Justice was neither being done nor being seen to be done . |
| 4 | This whole thing of the bride being , well often not , but frogmarched down the aisle and being transferred from being her father 's property to being her husband 's property |
| 5 | Having a senior member of the management team actively involved in analysing attendance and being seen to be taking action was an important aspect . |
| 6 | There was much running of baths , rushing about with garments , laughter on the stairs and in the bedrooms ; telephoning of florist for more button-holes ; small boys trying to help and being urged to be careful . |
| 7 | But then I started getting into trouble in approved school — running away , things like that , ending up in Brighton and Margate and being arrested for being an absconder from council care . |
| 8 | Well he knows that his views may not necessarily be the majority and count in the end , but at least they 're being taken into account and being considered to be important . |
| 9 | It is not about sincerity , so much as being seen to be sincere . |
| 10 | In conceding ( b ) he recognises that scribal records actually were unreliable , as well as being seen to be . |