Example sentences of "it [vb past] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 2 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 3 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 4 | Sir , when did it stopped being compulsory for you to have a tetanus jab ? |
| 5 | But when it stopped being a thrill , I gave it up . ’ |
| 6 | It stopped being a dream and began to be what I pretended could really happen . ’ |
| 7 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |
| 8 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 9 | But then it started being written about in magazines and newspapers in America and England , and the ‘ Voice of America ’ and West German radio did some broadcasts on it . |
| 10 | That it died being born . |
| 11 | So it died being born . |
| 12 | I was told there used to be a safety barrier there but it kept being knocked down so it was n't of putting er safety barriers up there bollards . |
| 13 | If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out . |
| 14 | She had the sense to realize there could not be two Queen Bees within one organization , even in such a large country , and anyway it meant being separated from her lover Mangon . |
| 15 | She did n't want to be safe , not if it meant being away from Felipe . |