Sentence examples for being contracted from inspiring English sources

It would actually be sufficient to restrict contraction by forbidding only those cases in which the two expressions being contracted have been introduced in semantically different ways.

The reason is not that new cases are being contracted.

"I could just imagine the top 16 of our girls in Australia being contracted just like the boys.

It was exasperation with being contracted that made him turn down Terence Young's offer to play Bond.

Previously the concern was that of "bogus marriages" being contracted simply as a route into this country.

But Levy's power is rooted in something more than Modric being contracted to Tottenham for another four years.

Before being contracted by the NYS to take care of the vegetables in a local sack garden, he was unemployed.

He noted that much of the scut work now being contracted out to firms like Halliburton was traditionally performed by reserve soldiers, who often complain the loudest.

If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the US.

The Cards are playing the Expos, but since Montreal has just narrowly averted being contracted out of the league, there are few Expos fans.

Richard Morris, a Spanish and linguistics professor at Middle Tennessee State University, told us via email, "Alan Gross was not arrested for introducing telecommunications technology to everyday Cubans, but rather for being 'contracted to work for American intelligence services.' " The characterization in quotes comes from Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcón.