Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being coerced or bludgeoned into submission , the Celtic Church was simply subsumed . |
| 2 | Interviews with riot participants indicated bitterness at the media 's failure to highlight prior police-community relations : ‘ They do not show people being stopped and searched in their cars , in their homes and whilst waiting at bus stops ’ , one interviewee complained . |
| 3 | With the fans now streaming through the turnstiles , many of them being stopped and searched before going any further , there 's a final briefing for the man who could influence their mood , referee Paul Harrison . |
| 4 | Nothing could penetrate that world of her unshakeable convictions but the humility of being exposed and shattered by the ugly girl with her outspoken rudeness , significantly called Mary Grace . |
| 5 | There the lucky ones among us were allowed half-way up the steps before being halted and held in position for twenty minutes while , I assume , the stewardess disentangled herself from more pressing engagements and tidied herself in readiness . |
| 6 | The same circumstances that have brought more attention to the miniatures are no doubt a big factor in the development of a grouping as yet not officially recognized , but being listed and offered by more and more growers . |
| 7 | Not being heard or listened to is something that elderly people can find frightening . |
| 8 | Former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas , 50 , who abandoned politics in 1984 after being diagnosed as suffering from cancer , became the first person to declare his candidacy for the Democratic Party 's nomination for the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 9 | Thus , for basic civic rights like not being enslaved or imprisoned without trial , people should need only to be people . |
| 10 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 11 | It concluded more patients were being treated and waiting times had been cut . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I could not stand the humiliation of crossing the Allenby Bridge — at my age , being stripped and searched by a Zionist , Jew , a Pole , a Russian or a Romanian who is living in my country , in my home , asking me questions and searching me . |
| 14 | Grasping her conference handbook tightly , she took her place in the queue where , she had been told last night over supper , she ran the risk of being stripped and searched by an army of discharged traffic wardens . |
| 15 | Before the " off , " Nick Faldo watched his practice swing on instant play-back video , while millions of words were still being uttered and written about the " greatest , biggest and most hyped Ryder Cup ever staged " . |
| 16 | being withdrawn and reserved in their interpersonal relationships within the organisation X |
| 17 | In other words , the success of user education as a continuous process between each of the educational sectors depends on the success of education itself being regarded and pursued as a continuous process . |
| 18 | But in other modes of production some external factor is needed to legitimate this arrangement ; and Balibar claims that this is why certain political conditions , or a certain kinship structure , may be represented as a feature of the natural order of things , rather than being regarded as implied by a mode of production . |
| 19 | A few very mature groups can meet together and are able to state openly how they feel without their feelings being manipulated or exploited by other members . |
| 20 | She is being kneaded and punched like bread dough by a Valkyrie sporting the corporate logo tattooed on a bicep . |
| 21 | One of the problems is this thing about some are being punished and have to there |
| 22 | it is something whi which affects the whole council , it is n't the prerogative of any particular service committee , and though on environmental matters and public health matters , another mi may be responsible and know more , it is an overall policy which erm , is being developed and needs to be erm , needs to be brought into play . |
| 23 | The European economy was being developed and fertilized in this age by men who regularly undertook journeys of great difficulty , risks of unknown dimensions . |
| 24 | ( b ) a recognised body which is an unlimited company shall retain its status as an unlimited company , save where the Council consents to the body being re-registered as limited by shares under the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 25 | They can also be classified by frequency , Some are published weekly , others monthly and yet others bimonthly or quarterly , and the " lead times ' or periods between material being received and appearing in the magazine can vary from three or four days to six months more an important point to bear in mind when planning a press campaign . |
| 26 | Then , where δ is the fraction so that the Goldbach–Rehage formula above becomes or This can be written in terms of , the relaxation time at the glass temperature , since where is a shift factor and Hence or , if the material is being heated or cooled at a rate we have where is the decrement of the expansion coefficient of the glass and , as before . |
| 27 | At the inaugural session on Sept. 4 Rawlings asserted , however , that the emerging " New World Order " was in fact merely a continuation of the familiar superpower monopoly , in that the 4,000 million people in the developing countries were still being crushed and undermined by the economic interests of the developed world . |
| 28 | Mr Hunt said Diaz lost control when he felt he was being insulted and goaded by the other group of people . |
| 29 | Often on a business transfer , parties to contracts with the vendor will need to consent to or agree to the contract being assigned or novated to the purchaser . |
| 30 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |