Example sentences of "he be [vb pp] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 6 ) if he is prohibited from being a Director by any order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 . |
| 2 | ( 6 ) if he is prohibited from being a Director by any order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 . |
| 3 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a tragedy that it looks as if he 's quitting just when he 's developed from being a superstar into an awesome megastar . |
| 5 | He 's admitted to being a Liberal ! ’ |
| 6 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 7 | He was compensated by being raised , on 19 June 1627 , to the earldom of Sunderland . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't had the pathologist 's report but the indications are that he was strangled after being stunned by a blow to the head . ’ |
| 9 | However , after a lacklustre match against France , he was threatened with being dropped from the England side . |
| 10 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 11 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 12 | He was paralysed after being shot by armed robbers in his home country of Nigeria . |
| 13 | Laud , who was Visitor of All Souls College , Oxford , had him made a Fellow there , overruling the objections of the Warden of the College , Gilbert Sheldon , that he was disqualified by being too young and held only a degree from Cambridge . |
| 14 | He was sentenced after being convicted last month of arson , deception and incitement to commit forgery . |
| 15 | As the head of Drexel 's bond-trading department , until he was dismissed after being charged with securities fraud , Mr Milken convinced many ( mainly institutional ) investors that the higher yields on bonds that carried a below-investment-grade rating compensated for the extra risk . |
| 16 | If he allowed the headstall to be put on him , he was rewarded by being put out in the paddock , or brought in for his dinner , or taken for a ride . |
| 17 | He was accused of being dictatorial and of attempting to overthrow the Constitution . |
| 18 | His father , also named Rudolf Slansky , had been general secretary of the CPCz and had been executed in 1952 after a show trial at which he was accused of being an agent of imperialism . |
| 19 | He was known for being jailed for his homosexuality , but the show looks at his family life . |
| 20 | He passed her , and he was known for being crappy . |
| 21 | WHEN in March 1989 the American treasury secretary , Nicholas Brady , announced his plan to reduce the third world 's commercial-bank debt , particularly Latin America 's , he was criticised for being too vague . |
| 22 | He was criticised for being negative , so he resorted to inserting the word ‘ positive ’ at dreary intervals into his stock responses to questions . |
| 23 | However , concern over the accountability aspect of the appraisal led the head of department to point out that he was torn between being brutally honest and papering over the cracks . |
| 24 | He was blamed for being too lax a disciplinarian , and indeed for the defeat on the snap ‘ cordite ’ vote on 21 June 1895 which saw the government resign . |
| 25 | He was chosen after being spotted in a prison production by a theatrical agent . |
| 26 | Moore lured Barry to the Washington hotel room where he was arrested after being filmed purchasing and smoking crack and requesting sex with Moore . |
| 27 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |