Example sentences of "it being [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protesters and rowdies . |
| 2 | ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protestors and rowdies . |
| 3 | He arrives to find it being searched by the Czechoslovakian police . |
| 4 | There was a large police presence at the rave , despite it being licensed by the local council . |
| 5 | This gives the little nest additional stability and so reduces the risk of it being overturned by a gust of wind . |
| 6 | Think of it being said by a policeman who adds , ‘ We think you may be able to help us in our enquiries . ’ |
| 7 | But that case was the subject of research by Mr. Glick and his team , and was revealed ( from the reports in Lofft 655 and in the State Trials 20 St.Tr. 239 ) to be a cause celebre in which the great issue ( of immense public interest ) related to the power to levy taxes in the island of Grenada following its capture from the French King , it being accepted by the Crown without argument that the relevant taxes , if not duly levied , must be repaid . |
| 8 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 9 | However , its calculatedly oblique and enigmatic avoiding of a direct statement — a withholding made all the more tantalizing in that it includes no less than eighteen declarative verb forms — could have a remarkably powerful effect if we imagine it being read by the person whose unnatural behaviour it describes . |
| 10 | The unusual structure of the Daily Herald certainly prevented it being dominated by a small group , apart from the elected brothers of the TUC council . |
| 11 | The legislation , which was signed by President Bush on the morning of June 26 , imposed a 38-day cooling-off period and forced the participants to submit to arbitration which , in the event of it being approved by the President , would be binding . |
| 12 | Third , the ground must be well drained to prevent it being poached by the animals . |
| 13 | This system was usually applied where the grade of ore was so poor as to preclude it being worked by the tribute system . |