Example sentences of "being [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ BEING ANTI-DISCO was very important to me , ’ says Michael Mann about Miami Vice , the show which finally made his name through what he calls ‘ a totally contemporary vernacular — visually , musically , sonically . ’ |
| 2 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
| 3 | Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself . |
| 4 | Jim ( no one who knows him calls him Iggy ) being Jim was squatting on the table stuffing everyone else 's venison into his roll and eating it with his fingers . |
| 5 | His knowing that being kind is useless . |
| 6 | Strong but circumstantial evidence for the DNA/protein crosslinking reaction being mechanism-based was already provided by the SAM-dependence we and others ( 13 , 16 ) observed and by the suppressing effect of sinefungin described above . |
| 7 | For the time being Wordperfect is n't going to compete head-on against Lotus Development Corp 's Notes product . |
| 8 | Anyway tomorrow being thursday is call Kaye day , and the topic is Glasgay . |
| 9 | Note that the full derivative is appropriate here because I and V being phasors are independent of time . |
| 10 | Furthermore , even the archaic powers that had not started from the position of being nation-states were forced to compete ; the Tsars thrust their reach eastwards to block the British advance in Asia , to stop the other Europeans in China , and finally to try to halt the westward movement of Japan . |
| 11 | For the time being UNESCO is unable to send a cultural mission to Iraq to investigate the situation , although it has had a team of experts lined up since July of last year . |
| 12 | While the company was later to compromise on this method of operation , cyanide understandably enough having had its share of bad press , by suggesting gravity extraction ( which as well as being cleaner was also cheaper ) as a technical fix to the opposition to cyanide , the opposition had by then extended its attack to issues such as blasting , dust pollution and the contradiction between the short-term benefits mining would bring and the long-term development of the area threatened by mining . |
| 13 | Well they were being Whit was being unpleasant about Aaron , which is calls made from non-local phone calls In fact local c phone calls as Whit t to you know to make comments |
| 14 | The biggest problem of all is that we ca n't look forward and that a lot of the problems , being problems are happening now , and happened since the er the first of January that should of happened they should of happened in th , in th , in the er at least the three months before the end of last year , if not more ! |
| 15 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |
| 16 | The impact of both descriptions being names is marginally greater in this respect than the impact of both being NPs , but the difference is not substantial or reliable . |
| 17 | FOR the time being Clint is a one-woman man . |
| 18 | Also , of course , they did n't like this idea of Satan being God 's equal . |
| 19 | Protecting the position of women who work hard at being mothers is obviously a worthy social objective , and with no political dispute likely , the report 's changes could be legislated within a year or two . |
| 20 | Steve being Steve was just being very laid-back about it all . |
| 21 | Horses that are well handled from the time of being foals are most unlikely to be aggressive towards us . |
| 22 | This is the memory that the computer uses to store instructions and information while a program is being run.program is being run ( carried out ) . |
| 23 | I am a small and thin person and being fat was great ! |
| 24 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |