Example sentences of "'s [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TO FIND A BODY , VEHICLE , FOR THAT STRONG SENSE OF MAN 'S DOUBLE-BEING WHICH MUST AT TIMES COME IN UPON AND OVERWHELM THE MIND OF EVERY THINKING CREATURE . |
| 2 | It 's bein' poor and 'omeless that does it . |
| 3 | That 's bein' diverted till later in the mornin' … due to road repairs . ’ |
| 4 | Her supporters included Thomas Hess , Meyer Schapiro , Leo Steinberg , Harold Rosenberg , and Peter Selz , and their intervention , asserting that Canaday had offended Ashton 's ‘ rights and responsibilities as a critic ’ , resulted in Canaday 's being censured by the American art critics ' association . |
| 5 | ‘ It did occur to me that the doctor did choose an odd moment to draw attention to the bell 's being there . |
| 6 | It 's being cooped up in this place I know , but her brain is just … ’ |
| 7 | John and I got on — and I was happy to join in with the general ‘ Sarah 's being difficult ’ refrain . |
| 8 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 9 | By contrast , the metaphysical question of what the preconditions are for the world 's being accessible to thought was uppermost for Plato and Aristotle . |
| 10 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 11 | It 's being here , Jennifer , being here . |
| 12 | He 's being well looked after and everything 's going smoothly , ’ Dave added . |
| 13 | ‘ There are some initiatives going on which interest me , whereby young women who had a child when they were adolescent , and although they love the child , regret very much that they were too young , too immature , and too unsupported to care for it effectively : it 's being suggested that they should go into schools and talk to girls about the glories of motherhood at the right time , but begging them not to embark on it too young . |
| 14 | One policewoman said that , while the men disappear when a rape victim is brought in , they all want ‘ to gawp at the girl when she 's being examined and read her statement ’ ( FN 17/2/87 , p. 19 ) . |
| 15 | Production and publication of The Rock led directly to Eliot 's being invited to write Murder in the Cathedral , which took further his idea of committed Christian drama and his warnings about the dangers of a society cut off from its religious roots . |
| 16 | reminds the reader of that moment when the shadow falls ‘ Between the potency/ And the existence ’ , or of Tiresias 's being trapped unfulfilled in sexual desire , bearing witness to all the ritualistically patterned couplings of history , ‘ throbbing between two lives ’ . |
| 17 | Finding people and educating and training them without them being aware that it 's being done is very important . |
| 18 | She 's being forced to pay money to see her grandchild |
| 19 | He hinted at the unlikelihood of Jack Pertwee 's being married that day and was inwardly amused to observe that this piece of information — the fact that Carter would be deprived of his cold chicken and champagne — distressed him more than Hatton 's death . |
| 20 | Then you 'll need clearance before you enter the range template — it 's being controlled on channel 4 . ’ |
| 21 | Although the idea of the Palast appealed to Frau Nordern she was not too sure of the propriety of Karl 's being whizzed around anywhere , especially on a tourist bus . |
| 22 | ‘ If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the revolution . |
| 23 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 24 | From the market 's point of view , this is no less significant than the stake 's being in one pair of hands . |
| 25 | It 's being . |
| 26 | Now it 's early seventies black pop that 's being bastardized , the exquisite anguish of your Timmy Thomases reduced to a blunt compassion . |
| 27 | On the subject of using the past , making references , it 's just that it 's impossible to evade the past , it 's here , it 's being thrown at you , and you have to deal with it . |
| 28 | For West Indies , two bowlers , Garner and Marshall , shared the honours at the top of the averages with 27 wickets each , Garner 's being slightly the less expensive at just 16 apiece . |
| 29 | In His place there is a program that is ceaselessly running in his absence , without anyone 's being able to change anything whatever . |
| 30 | So he 's being demobbed at last , is he ? ’ |