Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I apprehend that a tribunal which is by law invested with power to affect the property of one of Her Majesty 's subjects , is bound to give such subject an opportunity of being heard before it proceeds : and that that rule is of universal application , and founded upon the plainest principles of justice . |
| 2 | ‘ I apprehend that a tribunal which is by law invested with power to affect the property of one of Her Majesty 's subjects , is bound to give such subject an opportunity of being heard before it proceeds : and that that rule is of universal application , and founded upon the plainest principles of justice . |
| 3 | The idea is that he 's using them as , as a way of communicating the idea of the forest being er landscaped ; the whole environment of being polluted and it has an ecological background to it . |
| 4 | This brought the West Indian 's aggregate for the two matches to 181 without being dismissed and it enabled his side to seal their second impressive nine-wicket win . |
| 5 | Even the supposedly rigid ‘ external financing limits ’ imposed by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain have proved to be flexible in practice ( Heald and Steel 1981 ) , with targets being adjusted when it became apparent that they would not be met . |
| 6 | The hotel and nearby buildings were still being evacuated when it exploded . |
| 7 | It 's his department 's job to make sure the law 's being applied when it comes to fireworks . |
| 8 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the sealed-off stretch is being vandalised while it stands idle . |
| 10 | No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project . |
| 11 | Searching for papers can be annoying to the person being called and it wastes time and money . |
| 12 | and like you 've got this chunk of shit being digested and it goes through down your canal via peristalsis it 's called a bolus . |
| 13 | And this is built into the heart of the system so you have a new nation being formed , a new political system being invented and it 's invented on the basis of two principles separation of powers and federalism . |
| 14 | This methyl mercury is absorbed by small organisms in the water which are eaten by fish which are eaten by larger fish , and all the time the poison is being concentrated as it moves up the food chain . |
| 15 | LIFESPAN prevents a DC being updated after it has been submitted for assessment . |
| 16 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 17 | I B M employees rarely go to a conference , attend a meeting or take part in a course without being asked whether it meant their expectations , whether it was too long , too short , too dull , or ju or just too much . |
| 18 | All it needs to do therefore is to stay with its arms out in one place , photosynthesize , and avoid being eaten until it has managed to reproduce . |
| 19 | Line 90 stops the time being printed unless it has changed by at least one second . |
| 20 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 21 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |