Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes it really gets me down , ’ he admits , ‘ but the thing that keeps me goin' is live performances . |
| 2 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 3 | For them driving is a relaxing hobby and its all about having fun … except that is when the judge is watching … |
| 4 | Cocaine thus became another of the subjects which Ellen and I decorously avoided , like the existence of God , the wisdom of my having been a marine , feminism and the cartoons in the New Yorker . |
| 5 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 6 | Er , there 's something that 's me that survives these different changes of location erm age and size erm all kinds of things are consistent with it still being me that 's doing the changing rather than my having been replaced by something else . |
| 7 | Children do n't have as many inhibitions and for them acting is an innate ability . |
| 8 | Brian Jenkins 's Out of Depth — in which photographs of himself swimming are located within frame-like tanks of water — is a thought-provoking exploration of limitation and freedom . |
| 9 | To return to the enjoyment of looking at gibbons , it will be agreed that it is not an activity separate from looking at them , not an end to which looking is the means ( as looking is the end to which visiting the zoo is the means ) . |
| 10 | I know they wo n't consider me her kind , her havin' been to a fancy school , an' the typin' stuff an' all . |
| 11 | The South Africans were made to feel at home from the moment they entered Jamaica and they were clearly bewildered by the irony of their having been applauded out on to Sabina Park while Richie Richardson , the West Indies captain , was booed throughout the game . |
| 12 | By the same token the cinema industry in America , which has dominated the twentieth century and contributed more than any other force to the primacy of the visual image , does also create new audiences for books which are sold as ‘ the book of the film ’ despite their having been in print as classics for many years . |
| 13 | This teaching is based upon the dignity proper to all individuals by virtue of their having been created by God and redeemed by Jesus Christ . |
| 14 | If others offer us alarm calls without their having been previously ordered , they usually feel like an intrusion and a criticism , and will be fended off . |
| 15 | There are many reports of their having been seen with binoculars , but I have never had any success . |
| 16 | This may be the fact of their having been enacted by a specific body , or their long customary practice , or their relation to judicial decisions . |
| 17 | This , of course , should come as no surprise ; the high standards achieved by women in the arts are now well documented by feminist historians , as are the reasons for their having been ‘ hidden from history ’ . |
| 18 | Until recently , there was an unwritten rule in some universities that a PhD candidate would get their doctorate only after their having been published in international scientific journals . |
| 19 | Alexander the Great knew this intuitively when , himself having been wounded in the thigh , he walked round his wounded men and asked each to talk about his experience in the battle and how his wound had been received . |
| 20 | ‘ To her having been kidnapped , yes . |
| 21 | At first he had thought that her ebullient nature , the evidence of her having been loved and indulged , would mean that her response to life in and around Vetch Street would inevitably be shallow . |
| 22 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 23 | There have been cases reported of gonorrhoea being passed on within four or five hours of its having been acquired , so , unlike the case with syphilis , there is no ‘ safe ’ period between catching and giving the infection . |
| 24 | However , it 's all extremely well played , the Waltz is light as air , and the Elegy all the more moving for its having been relieved of any hint of bogus pathos . |
| 25 | Samuel Sharp writing in 1847 says : ‘ There is evidence … of its having been a Roman settlement in the time of Agricola , and that his legions established here a permanent encampment , the remains of which are clearly traceable even to the present day . ’ |
| 26 | That the body had been embalmed was established by the nature of the incisions , and its having been ‘ soaked in pickle ’ . |
| 27 | One could say that the sentence ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ puts the state of affairs of its having been the knave of hearts who stole the tarts upon the mat for discussion . |
| 28 | When Parliament in 1733 passed the Molasses Act which tried to help planters in the British West Indies by imposing prohibitive duties on New England 's imports of sugar , rum , and molasses from non-British colonies , the Act was not properly enforced and Americans came to speak of its having been ‘ nullified ’ . |
| 29 | The judges know nothing about any will of the people except in so far as that will is expressed by an Act of Parliament , and would never suffer the validity of a statute to be questioned on the ground of its having been passed or kept alive in opposition to the wishes of the electors . ’ |
| 30 | Yet what is interesting is that , when a query was raised as to the meaning and effect of subsection ( 2 ) , in the context of the liability of journalists to search and interrogation , the Minister of State described it in terms which are consistent only with its having been inserted to cover the case of a holder who himself was a party to the criminal purpose . |