Example sentences of "[indef pn] 's [be] " in BNC.

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1 A fourth example of a causal belief has to do with someone 's being taught to drive by a prudential instructor , whose car has two brake pedals , each moving the same single connecting rod .
2 ‘ Well I agree that someone 's being misled , ’ Gina retorted impatiently .
3 We 've had the word , nobody 's being rushed
4 Or else somebody , somebody 's is feeding him outside .
5 Well it says everything 's being sorted out .
6 But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests .
7 What you 've obviously got to why did I mention yeah , you marry , but if something 's be down , is n't gon na change .
8 It is part of the fabric of one 's being .
9 LISTENING WITH ONE 'S BEING
10 There rose , and she looked and looked with her needles suspended , there curled up off the floor of the mind , rose from the lake of one 's being , a mist , a bride to meet her lover .
11 But not many will be able to move in this rarefied atmosphere and , mercifully , there are lower strata in which to breathe and have one 's being .
12 A person 's lifetime experience is understood as the outcome of this permanent struggle to ‘ re-invent ’ one 's being in a universe made up of things , relationships , self and the transpersonal ( Van Deurzen-Smith , 1984 ) .
13 But as the writer Patience Gray , who has made her home in the Mediterranean , points out : ‘ Pounding fragrant things — particularly garlic , basil and parsley — is a quite tremendous antidote to depression … it produces an alteration in one 's being — from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure ’ .
14 I do n't know what this one this one 's being called .
15 Everybody 's is violent .
16 Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task .
17 In His place there is a program that is ceaselessly running in his absence , without anyone 's being able to change anything whatever .
18 If anyone 's being presumptuous around here , it 's you ! ’
19 ‘ I expect everyone 's being asked if they 're going to do any overthrowing , ’ said Gurder wisely .
20 But that 's probably more than a lot of people did , and everyone 's being urged to use condoms , but how many people are actually given any instruction on how to use them ?
21 where nothing 's being produced , can it ?
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