Example sentences of "[vb base] being the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean that you … enjoy being the only sober person here tonight ? ’ |
| 2 | The merchandise that they acquire being the class of children that they take on in September . |
| 3 | How much longer moderator can we in the Welsh provence accept being the poor relationship within the denominations ? |
| 4 | " Much as I dislike being the bearer of bad news … " it began . |
| 5 | ‘ I dislike being the centre of attention . ’ |
| 6 | They like being the centre of attention , are more narcissistic , and more likely to hold forth about their achievements . |
| 7 | But after our win against Slough confidence is high and anyway we like being the underdogs . ’ |
| 8 | If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised . |
| 9 | I like being the rabble cos you never have any responsibilities . |
| 10 | With gloss and shine being the buzz words for hair ‘ 92 , Salon Selectives have introduced a new spray-in , Leave-In Conditioner — Type L. Loaded with vitamins and natural ingredients , this ultralight spray can be used instead of or alongside your normal conditioner for a silky smooth shine . |
| 11 | With gloss and shine being the key words for this season 's styles , intensive conditioners are becoming increasingly popular . |
| 12 | Lady West was domineering , demanding , and critical , Honor being the butt of her discontent and ill-temper . |
| 13 | ONE OF two sprawling films ( Heimat being the other ) that marked Germany finally coming to terms with the war , relatively free of guilt . |
| 14 | The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise . |
| 15 | Others are widowed or divorced , and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples . |
| 16 | God , I love them all so much , I hate being the cause of their distress . |
| 17 | The Presbytery appoints the beadle to summond him pro secundo again nixt being the 13th. instant . " |
| 18 | The Presbytery appoints the beadle to summond him pro secundo again nixt being the 13th. instant . " |
| 19 | The start sites predicted by the primer extension analysis for both promoters agreed with GTP and UTP being the first NTPs incorporated ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 20 | The delay occasioned by the organization of , for example , a heraldic funeral required certain hygienic treatment to the body and it was necessary to encapsulate the corpse within a watertight container to prevent leakage , lead being the accepted material . |
| 21 | He told me that the first three days were an agony , thirst being the greatest torture , then slowly the body reversed its patterns and you got used to it . |
| 22 | As he pointed out to Bouilhet , the Revue 's version of his name was only a letter away from an unwanted commercial pun : Faubet being the name of a grocer in the rue Richelieu , just opposite the Comédie-Française . |
| 23 | It is sometimes referred to as the wan design ( wan being the Chinese character for 10,000 ) and represents 10,000 happiness . |