Example sentences of "[conj] being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From watching Isobel and her husband he had discovered that there was much more to sex than just taking a girl to bed or being uneasily married to a frigid , grasping woman . |
| 2 | Better ( > ) cold air or being slowly fanned , better ( > ) once discharge has started . |
| 3 | 1 An animal that is unhealthy or dying or being badly treated will not respond properly so it is a waste of time trying to watch its behaviour . |
| 4 | That we could talk about having a breast removed or being badly damaged by surgery or our hair dropping out or whatever . ’ |
| 5 | Where a building is under imminent threat or being callously neglected , voluntary organizations may be able to act more quickly than local authorities . |
| 6 | They appeared to have their arms around each other , either having just embraced or being just about to embrace . |
| 7 | It is probably too intrusive even to unconditionally ask the subject searcher to provide relevance information , and we believe that relevance judgements should only be requested if the system can detect that the user is either in trouble or being fairly persistent . |
| 8 | The time controller will remember the programme even after being switched into ‘ random mode ’ , or being manually over-ridden . |
| 9 | There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control . |
| 10 | You wo n't be going back to dreary little bedsitters like a lot of girls have to do , or being half starved in some digs … . ’ |
| 11 | Stipe sings for the main part in the first person , though it 's unclear if he 's taking on a character or being genuinely autobiographical for the most part . |
| 12 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 13 | However , some radionuclides having longer half-lives or being more rapidly dispersed can become globally distributed . |
| 14 | If this intercommunication is not properly arranged there will be the familiar symptoms of frustrating reiteration , decisions being misunderstood or being constantly revised , political manoeuvring and even concealment of progress within one or more of the teams . |
| 15 | You will find that being actively involved in this dialogue is interesting and enjoyable . |
| 16 | The evidence presented in Tables 9.3 and 9.4 lends weight to the statement that being less risky we should expect less return from fixed interest investments whichever country is being considered . |
| 17 | As films for private cameras were in very short supply — what was n't ? — I went along to him to be recorded for posterity , although being gloomily aware that I did n't photograph very well . |
| 18 | Stainless steel can be used , although being relatively lightweight these containers may be tipped over easily . |
| 19 | As a result less effort is required for its enjoyment and the resulting pleasure , although being more immediately available is also more superficial and more quickly exhausted . |
| 20 | Another option might be to regard EP as another aspect of IT Basic Skills ( spreadsheet , word processing , data management , statistics , etc. ) but such a module would seem to be consigned to the category of ‘ skills training ’ rather than being wholly educational . |
| 21 | Indeed , it floats about in fluid so its physical position varies , but every location along the chromosome is precisely addressed in terms of linear order along the length of the chromosome , just as every location along a computer tape is precisely addressed , even if the tape is strewn around the floor rather than being neatly rolled up . |
| 22 | I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows |
| 23 | Perhaps because Christianity has no law as such , the concept of purity became veiled behind ideas of spiritual goals rather than being simply defined by physical states . |
| 24 | On an APU sponsored visit to the USA , Burstall and Kay ( 1978 ) drew the following lessons from the USA experience : that the APU should obtain information that is , on the one hand , of use to teachers and on the other to decision-makers ; and that the information collected must be related to needs rather than being simply that which is easy to collect . |
| 25 | Ouston summarizes such a view : ‘ Successful schools appear to prevent too many difficulties arising rather than being exceptionally skilled in dealing with them once they have arisen ’ ( Ouston 1981 ) . |
| 26 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 27 | Nothing is more soul-destroying than being completely dependent on another person . |
| 28 | The research by Portes shows that the difference between the squatters and the urban population is one of degree rather than kind , the implication being that they are disadvantaged within the system , rather than being outside it . |
| 29 | Angalo was the same , but more than being Outside he hated not going fast . |
| 30 | But I do not believe that H. Ward Marston 's transfers are surpassable , and am grateful that the surface noise of the original discs remains intact rather than being artificially eliminated . |