Example sentences of "they [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of prisoners would never dream of reading one of Shakespeare 's plays because they fear being out of their depth . |
| 2 | Whatever the reticence of archaeologists on the matter — perhaps they fear being thought fanciful by their academic colleagues — excavations have begun to confirm the details in legends and myths . |
| 3 | As their expectations of her ability began to match her developmental level they stopped being so irritable and anxious with her . |
| 4 | Not that they stopped being scared at once , that first , frightened time . |
| 5 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 6 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 7 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 8 | At a private meeting in Westminster five officers of the 1922 back-bench committee were warned that they faced being voted out of office as punishment for persistent opposition to the Government on the bill to implement the Maastricht treaty . |
| 9 | They enjoy being at home together : she attends keep-fit classes and meets her former colleagues for coffee once a fortnight , while Tom spends more time on gardening and playing whist . |
| 10 | They enjoy being together , but not for every minute of the day . |
| 11 | Therefore , the emphasis of the present discussion is not upon whether the individuals benefit psychologically from being members of the Young Conservatives : it can be assumed that those who remain members do so because they enjoy being so . |
| 12 | Th they 're being frightened because they enjoy being frightened and there 's a kind of perverse wish fulfilment in that . |
| 13 | However , the ultimate aim of the legislation — to shed labour and alter workers ' consciousness so that they accept being sacked — remains the same . |
| 14 | I once attended a talk at which a group of people with learning difficulties described how they hated being called ‘ mentally handicapped ’ . |
| 15 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 16 | The merchandise that they acquire being the class of children that they take on in September . |
| 17 | A few people stayed loyal to the traditional beer , but they risked being scoffed at by their more fashionable friends . |
| 18 | Move to the Left , encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation . |
| 19 | In a unanimous decision the Irish Supreme Court on March 13 refused to return to the United Kingdom two escaped prisoners , both members of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , on the grounds that they risked being assaulted by prison staff . |
| 20 | I think that the districts there possibly given the exception of Selby have taken a rather cautious approach as to what they anticipate being built in their areas within the Greater York area itself er over the next thirteen years . |
| 21 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 22 | ( Even little boys , they like being painted like Batman or a cat or something . ) |
| 23 | They like being the centre of attention , are more narcissistic , and more likely to hold forth about their achievements . |
| 24 | They like being able to afford French champagne , to send their children to schools in France or to take holidays on the French Riviera . |
| 25 | They like being flattered , or congratulated , or encouraged : they certainly do not like being put down . |
| 26 | They like making money , they like being involved in business , and they love a challenge . |
| 27 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 28 | Could n't they stop being so right on ? |
| 29 | As for the Swindon fans , they loved being beside the seaside and Dave Mitchell answered their chant — We want 5 — with his second goal 9 minutes from time . |
| 30 | Berni 's problems began , he believes , when they started being influenced by marketing and introducing themes to the properties and designing the menus to match . |