Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOTE Men may not like being taken to the toilet by a woman , nor a woman by a man . |
| 2 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 3 | Descartes could not avoid being a product of the Counter-Reformation , having been educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche . |
| 4 | Nearby branches of Books Etc were untouched — although of course they could not avoid being affected by the disruption that was caused by the bomb to trading in the area . |
| 5 | Despite their protestations of loyalty , Methodists could not escape being associated with Jacobinism by some . |
| 6 | Another part of Phoebe hated herself for this cynical internal grin , because these were her friends and she was indubitably one of them , and could not imagine being otherwise . |
| 7 | I said that I could not imagine being an atheist at any time before 1859 , when Darwin 's Origin of Species was published . |
| 8 | But on his first proper encounter with Tolkien — at a meeting with English Faculty colleagues at Merton College in May 1926 — he could not help being charmed by this ‘ smooth , pale , fluent little chap ’ . |
| 9 | American literature could not help being shaped by that encounter . |
| 10 | Liza could not help being conscious of the similarity of the weather conditions which , nine months previously , had been responsible for today 's journey . |
| 11 | The London Committee [ of the BFASS ] could not help being what they were … |
| 12 | European Tour , we could not accept being banned . |
| 13 | He felt he could not risk being sent to prison and leaving her to cope . |
| 14 | The second period lasted more than 14 months and they dare not risk being caught again with so many cattle subject to movement restrictions for such a long time . |
| 15 | Indeed , Falkenhayn never attempted to break through the enemy lines — so far the sole tactic attempted by both sides — but planned rather to bleed France white by attacking that which the French nation would not tolerate being taken . |
| 16 | He was worried that a dairymaid might leave the dairy , and then her cows would not like being milked by a stranger . |
| 17 | And in his present state of mind , I for one would not enjoy being on the receiving end of his temper . |
| 18 | Prostitution would be made legal — and kerb-crawlers would not risk being arrested . |
| 19 | I would not mind being trained , and I am not afraid of hard work . ’ |
| 20 | I understand you were an innocent dupe in Caroline 's little game , but I assure you , I will not tolerate being called a liar . ’ |
| 21 | For if we assume that there is much in prisons that will not bear being exposed ( and if not , why keep it secret ? ) then opening up the prison is likely to decrease the legitimacy of the system . |
| 22 | Donkeys have no objection to donkey work , but they can not stand being taken for racehorses or tractors . |
| 23 | ‘ I , ’ said my sister-in-law , who never , I am sure , means to be offensive , ‘ simply can not stand being idle . |
| 24 | I also can not stand being ‘ rushed at ’ to be embraced in the manner she adopts — I decide who touches me , kisses me or who does not … nobody else ! ! |
| 25 | They can not face being left to their own , shallow life , which has no substance ; conversely , Ferdinand gains inner strength from maintaining his stand against tyranny . |
| 26 | This is so because , if courts are empowered to make authoritative determinations of the fact that a rule has been broken , these can not avoid being taken as authoritative determinations of what the rules are . |
| 27 | But the radical life-style of the true Christian is so contrary to the ways of the world that it can not help being a threat to others . |
| 28 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 29 | She had thanked me for ‘ the deep and exhaustive treatment ’ , and added characteristically : ‘ I can not help being pleased — grateful though I should be and am to her in a way — for Pamela Handford [ sic ] Johnson 's errors to be pointed out . |
| 30 | Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been . |