Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone who hates being pestered by incoming calls , I no longer see the point of a cellular phone . |
| 2 | People who want to keep their hard-won independence and who fear being betrayed into union with Europe by treacherous politicians . |
| 3 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 4 | For example , the often quoted MORI survey ( Baker and Duncan , 1985 ) considered : The interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults about their childhood yielded a figure of 10 per cent who reported being sexually abused . |
| 5 | Employees ' reports of monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation agreed with the industrial records , except for one mother of a case who reported being monitored , but there was no record of this in the industry databases . |
| 6 | Not least because he is the first senior politician for some time to write a book that is stylish , witty , beautifully observed and therefore vastly superior to the plodding tone employed by most ex-Cabinet ministers who confuse being there with being able to write an interesting account of what happened . |
| 7 | The world of the theatre is made up of those who like being on stage and those who enjoy being behind it . |
| 8 | The Cheltenham MP was trying to take up the cudgels on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council , who face being charge capped for wanting to spend ten million pounds above the Government 's limit . |
| 9 | A NORTH Wales council wants to ‘ buy time ’ for families who face being made homeless because of mortgage arrears . |
| 10 | Under that scheme , owners who face being made homeless due to mortgage arrears are allowed to stay in their homes as tenants for 12 months as the council takes up a head lease . |
| 11 | who hated being photographed or interviewed , had been obliged to entertain important people : pension-fund managers , stockbrokers , bankers , and financial journalists . |
| 12 | Many courts rubber stamp them and those children who like being in secure units may not press to leave . |
| 13 | The world of the theatre is made up of those who like being on stage and those who enjoy being behind it . |
| 14 | Ken Thwaites , who remembers being told the news in the asssembly hall at Normanby Primary School , recalls : ‘ The sad and important words were recognised , but what worried me more was would ‘ Boro 's FA Cup tie with Doncaster Rovers due that afternoon at Ayresome Park be postponed ? |
| 15 | And cases that may have been tampered with by high-ranking legal figures who feared being exposed will be reviewed . |
| 16 | They were art students at the time when art college was the bolthole for all the drug-deranged bongo bashers , paint flingers , crappy experimental film-makers and fanny dancers who thought being a student was a great doss but they were f—ed if they were going to read any books . |
| 17 | ‘ It was she who liked being in France . |
| 18 | Of twenty-one housewives who mind being labelled a housewife , nineteen ( eighty-six per cent ) are dissatisfied with work ; of the nineteen who ‘ do n't mind ’ this label , ten ( thirteen per cent ) are dissatisfied . |
| 19 | I was roasting , ’ said the youngster , who preferred being on the other side of the camera . |
| 20 | ‘ So you 're the young woman who enjoys being thrashed . ’ |
| 21 | The influence of the tabloid press was particularly strong on those voters who denied being party ‘ supporters ’ , even when they had a party preference . |
| 22 | A clear division was to be made then , with all who served their country being enfranchised and all who refused being disfranchised , in both cases irrespective of age or other considerations ; the war was to be the test and the policy was to be " What did you do in the war , Daddy ? " |
| 23 | The court denied without comment the appeal by Berry , who faces being sued for breach of privacy by hundreds of women . |
| 24 | Because of the extensive location work , Dustin , who disliked being away from his family for any length of time , insisted on Anne and Karina joining him at a house he had rented in Billings , Montana . |