Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had a knack of breaking hearts and being mystified by the effect . |
| 12 | 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 . [ … ] |
| 13 | 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. ’ |
| 14 | I remember sitting in the cockpit and being cooked by the sun for a few hours , but we were never scrambled . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was no doctor in the region , and Ibu reckoned that the three major causes of mortality were shipwreck , malaria and being killed by a python . |
| 18 | I remember getting off the plane and being asked by the press photographers if I would give them a salute . |
| 19 | Reports in the papers the following day spoke of a naked man going berserk on the street and being struck by a car . |
| 20 | I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland , and being struck by the fact that almost everyone on the island had the most enormous jug-handle ears . |
| 21 | I remember visiting a hospice for the terminally ill and being struck by the peace , joy and laughter which abounded among both patients and carers . |
| 22 | The delay between this booking-in and being seen by the doctor varies from day to day , from hour to hour , and from clinic to clinic . |
| 23 | And Grainne smiled briefly , because it was certainly possible that these thoughts were flowing outwards and being absorbed by the ancient stones . |
| 24 | I have chosen these books because they have similar themes ; they both portray individuals who have problems fitting into , accepting , and being accepted by the societies in which they live . |
| 25 | In no time they were installed at a table by the window and being attended by a stately woman with an enormous bosom and a monument of granite-coloured hair . |
| 26 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |
| 27 | This is the only other Norwegian breed to remain separate from the Norwegian Red but it , too , is now very rare and being inseminated by the Red . |
| 28 | As of April 4 estate agents in the province will have to tell house hunters the facts about properties — or face punishments which include unlimited fines and being banned by the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 29 | A ballad about a soldier returning from war and being wooed by the king 's daughter . |
| 30 | So it was that Riven found himself attacking a wooden post with a wooden sword that was slippery with mud , and being lectured by the unsmiling Myrcans . |