Example sentences of "[coord] being [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine for example the stunning impact of ‘ pass the sugar ’ in proper chemistry , or being asked if you want ethanoic acid with your french fries . |
| 2 | By sweeping back and forth through figures of eight , a Flexifoil will build up speed even when wind strength is such that without movement or being flown as though on a single line , it will just hover with the spar nearly straight . |
| 3 | They are sometimes loathe to tell men that they have a baby for fear of being rebuffed or being seen as easy , like Shona , now twenty with a daughter of two : |
| 4 | In the event of the Video being broadcast or being caused or licensed to be broadcast we will pay you standard residuals in accordance with normal rates . |
| 5 | In the event of the Video being broadcast or being caused or licensed to be broadcast we will pay you standard residuals in accordance with normal rates . |
| 6 | In the event of the Video being broadcast or being caused or licensed to be broadcast we will pay you standard residuals in accordance with normal rates . |
| 7 | The Highlanders surrounded Ruthven , offering Molloy and his dozen men the choice of moving out unharmed or being overrun and hanged , but he refused , and beat off an attack by 150 Highlanders . |
| 8 | On the hearing of the appeal the court ordered that there be no identification of W. , any institution or establishment where she was residing or being educated and any natural person having or prospectively having day to day care of her or of any material calculated to lead to her identification . |
| 9 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 10 | I remember one of them coming over to see us , and being shocked that after a month from our last meeting we were still in the country . |
| 11 | There has always been protection to prevent them from working long hours and being exploited and bullied . |
| 12 | Senior staff and middle managers having an explicit management role and being trained and developed to do it . |
| 13 | A device which may be adopted by the drafter to increase the likelihood of terms being accepted and being regarded as reasonable , is to include a justification for the term . |
| 14 | Dad had submitted to turning out his pocket and being searched before they let him go . |
| 15 | Mr Carter droned on about the United States not being strong any more and being too afraid of the Russian bear and being out-traded and so on . |
| 16 | I 'm having a good time walking up and down here and being astonished that anyone could be so ignorant . |
| 17 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 18 | More subtly he is also restricted by attempting to set the knowledge in another artificial situation , the educational process of sitting in classrooms learning by rote leavened by some understanding and being examined and tested in standardised situations . |
| 19 | ‘ I expect it 's a bit strange , ’ she said , ‘ all that Chapel and being seen and not heard . |
| 20 | As you can see , it is important to accustom your dog to lying quietly on his back and being brushed before you attempt to get close with the scissors . |
| 21 | and being lost and |
| 22 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 23 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 24 | So that link there between dreams and fantasies and and being deceived and going mad , I think is quite clear is n't it ? world and between Shakespeare 's world . |
| 25 | I do n't want you bragging and being bigheaded because the other marks are low . |
| 26 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
| 27 | That sounds rather like being shown an impressively beautiful palace and being told that no one is quite sure whether its foundations rest on bedrock or shifting sand . |
| 28 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 29 | He remembers asking Control why he was not also given a Thomas Leavy passport , and being told that , as there was enough time for him to go through normal channels to get one , a legitimate passport was always a safer bet . |
| 30 | In fact , almost 20 per cent have never driven on their own on a motorway and many fear breaking down and being attacked whilst using them . |