Example sentences of "being [adj] [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burmin 's EIA was reported as being due to be completed in July 1990 . |
| 2 | Well , I 'm not being prepared to be held to ransom by them . |
| 3 | ‘ Despite the variation in language of the various judges , the principle of Donoghue v. Stevenson [ [ 1932 ] A.C. 562 ] as appears from the examination of these authorities imposes tortious liability on a person who performs some careless act which may injure any person whom he should reasonably have had in contemplation as being likely to be injured in consequence of his carelessness and who in fact is injured by his careless act . |
| 4 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 5 | Sid , being unlikely to be displayed to the company , had been excused Dickensian dress . |
| 6 | I think wind power is perhaps one of the alternative energy sources which is erm nearest to being able to be applied and utilised immediately . |
| 7 | The distinction is important since the androids are becoming so lifelike that they differ little from humans , being able to be programmed with memories , emotions and empathy so that some androids even think themselves human . |
| 8 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 9 | The term is used to distinguish citizens from ‘ aliens ’ who suffer certain disabilities such as having no right to remain in the country , being liable to be deported in certain circumstances , often not being entitled to vote ( though Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland resident in this country do have the vote ) or to receive state benefits . |