Example sentences of "to [being] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , Moby could acquire basic social and communication skills with other dogs , get used to being handled by many different people and Jenny could show Moby and the Hurseys how to start a course of basic obedience training . |
| 2 | The first was Starr v National Coal Board [ 1977 ] 1 WLR 63 which dealt with the plaintiff 's right to object to being examined at all by the defendant 's doctor . |
| 3 | If this is how bands who openly admit to being influenced by The Clash sound today , poor old Strummer and Jones ca n't be getting much sleep at night . |
| 4 | If this is how bands who openly admit to being influenced by The Clash sound today , poor old Strummer and Jones ca n't be getting much sleep at night . |
| 5 | The report said army intelligence officers started spying on black Americans out of fears they were susceptible to being influenced by German agents in the First World War , then by Communist and Japanese agents and opponents of the Vietnam War . |
| 6 | I did n't take kindly to being parted from her and climbed up beside her . |
| 7 | Some strong-minded women , however , of whom my mother was one , did not take kindly to being parted from their most precious possession . |
| 8 | Also it could be said that the role of Equality Officer is , by its name , more open to being filled by man or woman than it was when it was known as Women 's Special Representative . |
| 9 | On the other hand , since it is mostly women who are responsible for running households and caring for dependent members of their families , it is not surprising that they are involved in helping each other in these practical ways , which lend themselves to being organized on a reciprocal basis . |
| 10 | When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police . |
| 11 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |
| 12 | This year , of course , everything will be geared to being selected for the Olympic Games . |
| 13 | This is why it is important to accustom the child to being rewarded for good behaviour — punishment is knowing what he or she is missing . |
| 14 | These are less amenable to being uncovered by using conventional interviews or survey methods . |
| 15 | There is likely to be a compatibility issue moving data from either of these systems to NTFS and with applications that object to being moved between secure and insure files . |
| 16 | Right in the heart of a city that has become accustomed to being regarded as an eyesore . |
| 17 | Knighton suggests that she too came close to being condemned to death , but was spared because of the king 's natural tenderness towards his mother . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) If an employee does consent to being transferred to the purchaser he will lose all accrued statutory rights . |
| 19 | Their authority is contained in the letter of 14 January 1992 which is expressly the consent of the ‘ interim government ’ to being joined as plaintiff . |
| 20 | ‘ In addition to being based on new technology and being over 40 per cent more powerful than its predecessor , the 820 has twice as much memory and this will provide us with the potential to exploit new , more efficient techniques for online applications and batch processing . ’ |
| 21 | Whether that stretches to being reunited with his wife and son is unknown . |
| 22 | ‘ It was your reaction to being seen with no clothes on ! |
| 23 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 24 | A EUROPEAN ruling today pushed Britain closer to being placed in the dock over the killing by SAS soldiers in Gibraltar of three IRA terrorists . |
| 25 | An AC adaptor is supplied , but I ca n't see any photographer taking too kindly to being tied to a mains outlet . |
| 26 | No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation . |
| 27 | The horse 's response to being dragged to water takes the form of a typical pre-linguistic prototype of human choice . |
| 28 | So our perception of the nature of time changed from being independent of the universe to being shaped by it . |
| 29 | Few of us were used to being jerked from slumber at 6 a.m. every morning and spending the day in continual physical activity . |
| 30 | But I do know about Hollywood actors who ca n't come out without kissing goodbye to being cast as heterosexuals . |