Example sentences of "which [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 2 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 3 | We increasingly face a racism which avoids being recognized as such because it is able to link ‘ race ’ with nationhood , patriotism and nationalism , a racism which has taken a necessary distance from crude ideas of biological inferiority and superiority and now seeks to present an imaginary definition of the nation as a unified cultural community . |
| 4 | After an encounter during a summer holiday in Sydney , which included being the butt of a four-hour tongue lashing , I can not write with detachment . |
| 5 | Rather than ministering to a small elite , these institutions had now established their function as the " education of the upper intelligence groups of the nation " , selected according to criteria which included being " good " at English in school . |
| 6 | ‘ A driving offence which included being drunk in charge of a vehicle , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 7 | Sir Leonard has had a distinguished with I B M which included being seconded by I B M to the National Health Service Management Board , first as Director of Personnel and then as Chairman of the Board . |
| 8 | American researchers have referred to the ‘ new racism ’ , which denies being racist , in contrast to ‘ old-fashioned red-necked racism ’ , which unambiguously trumpeted racial values ( McConahay and Hough , 1976 ; McConahay , 1981 , 1982 ; McConahay et al . , |
| 9 | AN AMERICAN researcher compiled a list of 2,241 words in English all of which meant being drunk . |
| 10 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |
| 11 | For sequential interviews you need all your wits about you , which means being thoroughly well prepared and getting a decent night 's sleep beforehand so your energy does not flag ! |
| 12 | That is why we must oppose anti-porn forces in whatever guise they appear ; which means being prepared to face up to pornography , to understand why we like it and why we find that so shameful . |
| 13 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 14 | The Mock Turtles are very 1991 which implies being slightly 1967 . |
| 15 | Another is concerned with the painful ways in which people can die , which include being eaten alive , dismembered and ‘ un-souled ’ . |