Example sentences of "[vb past] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas his parting from Sandra had been ‘ sensibly negotiated ’ , this time Nicholson was left with what was , for him , an odd feeling of what he termed being ‘ dumped on ’ . |
| 2 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 3 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 4 | I tried being John Carradine earlier this evening , but it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 5 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 6 | I tried being quiet . ’ |
| 7 | The dwellings are heated by communal gas boilers , the fuel used being heat-metered into each flat — occupants have the option of reducing or suspending the flow of the low-pressure hot water central hearing — while a ‘ landlord 's meter ’ records the amount of heat used in common areas . |
| 8 | It is treated by a short course of drugs , the main one used being metronidazole . |
| 9 | The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper . |
| 10 | His future , if he had one , involved being permanently connected , by two six foot hoses , to a massive power unit weighing 375 lb . |
| 11 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 12 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |
| 13 | This involved being around , or hanging around , just watching , recording , holding conversations . |
| 14 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 15 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 16 | Although Dionysius stresses the utter inadequacy of any created being to know the nature of the one God who created everything from nothing , he also asserts that He is immanent in His creation and that man can encounter the reality of the energy of divine love at the heart of his being . |
| 17 | He described being taken over the years to see his sick , and finally dying and almost certainly innocent father in another prison . |
| 18 | She had never been exposed to anything like it before , and initially she found being the centre of attention quite amusing . |
| 19 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 20 | Bonington commented on his experiences at sea : ‘ I am not a natural sailor and found being on a very small boat without exercise very trying . |
| 21 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 22 | Blake found being a passenger in the mechanical ‘ land-rovers ’ , with their noise and billowing fumes , frightening . |
| 23 | It also helped being married to bleached-blonde ball-busting pop star Madonna . |
| 24 | For example , the often quoted MORI survey ( Baker and Duncan , 1985 ) considered : The interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults about their childhood yielded a figure of 10 per cent who reported being sexually abused . |
| 25 | Employees ' reports of monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation agreed with the industrial records , except for one mother of a case who reported being monitored , but there was no record of this in the industry databases . |
| 26 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 27 | And it 's time you stopped being afraid of life . ’ |
| 28 | And , like a little child , he stopped being careful and tense for a moment and said what was in his head , quite simply . |
| 29 | He stopped being a spectator and goaded himself into action . |
| 30 | SEVEN of the past 12 Masters Tournaments have been won by European players and this stopped being a big surprise three Ryder Cups ago . |