Example sentences of "[subord] being [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is known from occupational medicine , that exposure to two chemicals at once can be far more damaging than being exposed to each chemical individually . |
| 2 | For instance , inspectors ' powers to acquire information about accidents needed to be extended to include inquiries made to determine whether an investigation was appropriate , rather than being confined to those cases where the Chief Inspector had already ordered an investigation to take place . |
| 3 | Similar sequences , known as self-initiated insertion sequences , are common in the talk of monolinguals : " self-initiated " because the current speaker starts them rather than being prompted by another , and " insertion sequences " because they disrupt the " normal " flow of the conversation . |
| 4 | As in the case of autarchic policy making , effective outside influence would require that public interest in specific social issues had already been articulated rather than being reflected in some generalized public unease . |
| 5 | England traditionally had inheritance laws based on the principle of primogeniture , that is the property should pass to a single heir , usually the eldest son , rather than being divided between all surviving children . |
| 6 | The preferred method is measuring of the contaminant concentration , combined with some other measurement to ensure that the contaminant is being mineralised rather than being transformed to some other intermediate compound . |
| 7 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 8 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 9 | To her it could just not be right that she should love one man while being married to another . |
| 10 | All of the young persons listed as copper miners were boys , but the census does not reveal a single girl as being employed at all , and that was just not so . |
| 11 | You can t falsely represent yourself to him as being authorised in some official capacity to enforce payment of the debt . |
| 12 | Such that any new example one down here can be seen as being belonging to that set okay ? |
| 13 | Language use among individual bilinguals is seen as being governed by these norms . |
| 14 | not to hold itself out as being entitled in any way whatsoever to contract on behalf of the Publisher unless previously agreed in writing |
| 15 | not to hold itself out as being entitled in any way whatsoever to contract on behalf of the Publisher |
| 16 | not to hold itself out as being entitled in any way whatsoever to contract on behalf of the Publisher |
| 17 | not to hold itself out as being entitled in any way whatsoever to contract on behalf of the Publisher . |
| 18 | In the first , direct taxes are seen as being paid by those on whom the formal incidence sits , e.g. income tax , whereas indirect taxes are those that are shifted so that the formal or statutory and actual or effective incidence diverges . |
| 19 | Ecstasy is a flight of the mind in which the mystic describes himself as being transported to another world . |