Example sentences of "[det] being [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many bosses were made of pewter or a brass alloy , some being a thin coat of brass alloy filled with lead . |
| 2 | By 1989 there was only one regular instance of Speedlink and Freightliner traffic sharing the same train , this being a service between Bristol and Coatbridge , but the organisation had already begun marketing its two products as complementary rather than competing systems , itself an important step forward in the history of Railfreight . |
| 3 | Or , as the characters would probably say , this being a series infatuated with villainous jargon , ‘ You 've bin telling porkies , PC — and in my manor we 're strictly kosher ’ . |
| 4 | Inversion becomes a kind of transgressive mimesis : the subculture , even as it imitates , reproducing itself in terms of its exclusion , also demystifies , producing a knowledge of the dominant which excludes it , this being a knowledge which the dominant has to suppress in order to rule . |
| 5 | A second water wheel is in the heart of the main building , this being a smaller one producing around six horse power . |
| 6 | He had a thick stick of some kind — quite short-in his hand , and he said something about this being a holdup , or a stick-up or some term I really did n't understand . |
| 7 | Logistics prevent this being a public attraction . |
| 8 | But the committee removed key sentences which suggested that flaws in the experiment might have resulted in this being a serious underestimate . |
| 9 | In addition , there were over ten deaf children resulting from deaf intermarriages , and only two or three from a marriage of a deaf person to a hearing person — this being a deaf mother married to a hearing man , and the deaf mother 's father was also deaf . |
| 10 | On reflection , both Louis and Carl had one thing in common , this being a knack for giving others an inferiority complex . |
| 11 | Having looked at the photos you will probably be wondering why , despite this being a completely new product , there is such an air of familiarity about the design . |
| 12 | She is not what might have been feared , a colourless nominee of Walworth Road , but a personal victim of Militant in its great days when Labour politicians used to mutter feebly about this being a Broad Church . |
| 13 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 14 | He did not wish to make her unhappy by any further probing after such a flow of confidences , so he just asked her which city in England she came from , this being a question all immigrants were accustomed to . |
| 15 | This being a movie , Sandra is recognised , by a young American woman who won her place in the workshop in a competition and who now , shyly , politely , asks if she can trouble her for an autograph . |
| 16 | Daytime shifts on the same taxi are handled by lonely Joseph , who meets Julie one evening and — this being a French movie — takes her to bed . |
| 17 | Meanwhile in 1944 the prototype Firefly Mk III ( Z1835 ) emerged with a Griffon 61 engine , this being a converted Mk I which retained the ‘ beard ’ radiator , but proved to have poor aerodynamic qualities . |
| 18 | The H -test , an unbinned statistical method , gives a value of 98 , which indicates that the formal probability ( O. C. DeJager , personal communication ) of this being a random distribution is 10 -17 . |
| 19 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 20 | They are driven in anti- phase and their magnet assemblies are coupled together with a forcecancelling metal rod which inhibits the transmission of unwanted energy into the structure of the enclosure itself , this being a primary cause of coloration with many conventional loudspeakers . |
| 21 | The paper proposed a computer with a store of 409640-bit words stored on the faces of a number of " Selectrons " or electrostatic storage tubes , this being a device able to provide random-access storage before the introduction of the ferrite core store ( first used on the Whirlwind computer at MIT in 1953 ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Constraints upon historians tightened , one symptom of this being a sharp decline in the number of scholars entering the profession and in the output of new books and articles on the revolution in the early 1980s . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , we have been told by counsel that the matter is far from academic , in that justices ' courts are concerned , this being a matter which has exercised justices ' courts on many occasions and on which there are different practices in different justices ' courts . |
| 25 | Walton J. did not purport to decide the case on the basis of a payment made under a mistake of law and I agree with the doubts expressed by Romer J. in Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , as to this being a true case of money paid under a mistake of law having regard to the plaintiffs ' expressions as to their understanding of the law at the time of the payments . |
| 26 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 27 | It is possible to see Halliday 's view of theme — as whatever comes in initial position in the clause — as a reflection of ( a ) the nature of English as a language with relatively fixed word order , and ( b ) his study of Chinese , this being a language with a special category of topic which always occurs at the beginning of the clause . |
| 28 | The excess of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was not concentrated in the children of oil workers themselves , consistent with this being a community ( or ‘ herd ’ effect . |
| 29 | He quotes an example from a dunefield in southern Peru where the average width of barchans is 37 m and their height about one tenth of this , this being a width height ratio commonly found in barchans . |
| 30 | This being a self-acting incline the empty trucks were dragged up by the full ones , the long chain or rope to which they were linked , passing , of course , around the sheaved wheel the stanchions for which are still to be seen . |