Example sentences of "and [prep] being [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only hours after Baker left Jordan on July 21 the House condemned the peace efforts for excluding the PLO and for being biased in favour of Israel . |
| 2 | In 1926 over a dozen Constituency Labour Parties were disbanded for accepting Communists into individual membership and for being controlled by the Leftwing Movement . |
| 3 | I have never had a run through injuries and through being cup-tied . |
| 4 | Priestley had particular pleasure in recalling that moment in Payday in which Charlie has to walk home through the rain after foolishly spending his pay and after being pushed out of the last tram ; he anticipates his wife 's anger and the return to short rations and yet not all is hopeless , something might turn up . |
| 5 | ‘ And after being sent a poison pen letter and then meeting you again , hitching a lift seems pretty tame stuff ! ’ |
| 6 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 7 | She was remanded in custody on February 24 for a week and after being granted conditional bail , lived at a probation hostel for a further three weeks . |
| 8 | She was bought for about £20,000 in May 1974 by a smuggling syndicate based in London and after being fitted out with no expense spared she was mainly based in Portugal from where her smuggling trips started , loading from supplying craft off the coast of Morocco , thence back across the Bay of Biscay to the Cornish coast . |
| 9 | He 's an obedient kind of fellow , and after being kicked out of the castle by his master he sets about his task with a determination unusual for someone with such a cowardly disposition . |
| 10 | Pupils were tested before and after being taught and teachers ' knowledge was assessed by means of interviews and tests . |
| 11 | He made few friends ; he joined few clubs or societies , and after being elected to the college debating society was asked to resign because he never spoke ; he did not even spend much money . |
| 12 | And after being baptized he continued on with Philip , as he observed signs and great miracles taking place , and he was constantly amazed ! |
| 13 | The candidate must be proposed and seconded and after being proposed and seconded he must obtain the signatures of eight assentors , except in the case of a parish , town or community council election where assentors are not required . |
| 14 | The farmers affected broke up the new flood-banks , and after being arrested initially , were released on the grounds that the enclosure commissioners had exceeded their powers in constructing the drainage works . |
| 15 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 16 | It was 3–0 seconds before half time when Mooney sent Simon Thompson through the middle and after being forced wide by Alan Kamara still managed to beat Bracey from 15 yards . |
| 17 | ‘ ( 1 ) The Bank may , on an application duly made in accordance with section 8 above and after being provided with all such information , documents and reports as it may require under that section , grant or refuse the application . |
| 18 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 19 | And after being taken off in County 's 2-1 defeat by Watford on Tuesday , Agana ripped off his shirt and headed for the players ' tunnel . |
| 20 | Behavioural aspects of the horse before and after being whipped must now be studied . |
| 21 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 22 | He was fair , snub-nosed and freckled ; she was dark , her hair lank and straight and despite being exposed to all weathers her skin was pale . |
| 23 | From the ground up to his revolving papier-mache head he is 5ft 7 1/2 in tall , wears a full uniform , and despite being armed — with a radar gun — bears no resemblance to Robocop . |
| 24 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 25 | Despite this , and despite being equipped with largely obsolescent arms and trained principally to attack , the army fought throughout the war without major dissensions . |
| 26 | And despite being stuffed full of capability and battery , they 're light enough ( 8kg ) to sit on the desktop and compact enough ( 15 by 10 by 27mm ) not to look like a Bulgarian chip fryer . |
| 27 | ough cruised past Sparta 's Bobby Farren in the home straight to win the metric mile in 3.49.6 and despite being passed by Ballymena teenager Eddie King , he recovered to win the ‘ 800 ’ in 1.53.6 . |
| 28 | The outcome may thus be seen as a situation in which there is considerable trade-union militancy with respect to wages , hours of work and related issues , but relatively little expression of class consciousness in the broader sense of any profound awareness or conviction of living in a society the nature of which is predominantly determined by class relations , and of being engaged in a continuing struggle to establish an alternative form of society . |
| 29 | Ideally , it will need to be capable of working in all these media and of being extended . |
| 30 | Other writers answered the question of the universality of sign language with less certainty : ‘ though all nations do not use the same mode of signs , one having a knowledge of the signs herein delineated will experience little , if any difficulty in understanding other modes , and of being understood by those who use a different mode ’ ( Michaels , quoted in Battison and Jordan , 1976 : 54 ) . |