Example sentences of "being [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did I want to go on being NORMAN BRITTON , C OF E ? |
| 2 | Mr. Edminson refers also to many of today 's lady golfers as being professional ladies earning good salaries and who are therefore well able to pay for the privilege of playing golf two or three times a week . |
| 3 | but I think the other thing is that it 's just a question of the people in our business supposed to be being professional communicators |
| 4 | First , being ex-GWR No. 216 built in 1888 and ran until withdrawn in 1933 . |
| 5 | Hillier , who guided Langley from being perennial re-election candidates to a first division side in only two seasons , announced his decision to quit after yesterday 's 2–1 win Gretna . |
| 6 | Sagittarians had a reputation for being insatiable travellers , and she was no exception , but please God she would journey to other places where there were no poignant memories . |
| 7 | There is a CND symbol on the front of this record , therefore we have been forced to ban it , in the interests of being Right Wing . |
| 8 | Economic growth is sometimes strictly defined in this way , being that increase in GDP which results from raising productive potential . |
| 9 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 10 | I do n't think that 's bad or that it should ever stop being that way . |
| 11 | Because he liked women to be gentle and soft and obedient he thought that women would like being that way since it would make him like them . |
| 12 | In teaching , for example , married women were charged with being less efficient than men because of their higher absentee rates caused by pregnancy and by their need to stay at home to look after sick children , the fundamental assumption being that marriage and motherhood were incompatible with a career . |
| 13 | Part of the reason suggested being that money is tighter in the public sector so there is more pre-planning and costing before organisational changes are allowed to proceed . |
| 14 | When I asked Mr. if engineering approval was likely to be given , he said it was not , the reason being that BWB themselves are proposing to upgrade the whole length of the Union Canal towpath . |
| 15 | No hostage was released , the excuse given by Ghorbanifar being that Iran did not really need the TOW missiles so they were not counted in the exchange deal . |
| 16 | As Anderson ( 1983 ) has pointed out , marital breakdown rates in the nineteenth century were probably not very different from those found today , the difference being that divorce rather than death is now the main cause of lone parenthood . |
| 17 | The difference being that Katherine was doing it all in the name of another who was not her husband , but her father . |
| 18 | Such opportunities are obviously present in Kenya and Zambia though they do not appear always to work out in practice , one reason in Kenya being that centre personnel are continually called on to perform routine professional jobs such as practical examinations for final year college students . |
| 19 | Well , not being that kind of a girl , I was n't goin' to stay there with me virtue in danger . ’ |
| 20 | That is part of the meaning revealed through the Incarnation and it is this spontaneous integrity of being that mystics glimpse and in so doing serve and inspire the Christian society , of which they are a part , struggling to repair the ravages of sin . |
| 21 | The motion did , however , contain a number of conditions for membership , the principal such condition being that Sweden should be allowed to maintain its traditional policy of neutrality . |
| 22 | Both of them were professionals , the only difference being that Trent was on the side of the law . |
| 23 | I , I said all they 've done is literally scaled it up to like instead of a door being that size its now like that right and the front porch instead of being that low now that high up double it , its a bigger home |
| 24 | If he was the sort who enjoyed playing the field then she might have understood , but he did n't strike her as being that type at all . |
| 25 | The difference being that Laing was alive and living in London and Inner Space , while Reich had killed himself fifteen years before in the United States . |
| 26 | Perhaps , not surprisingly , in a short space of time life skills training has become detached from the wider objectives associated with liberal humanist education : the point being that teaching young people about society has been replaced by criteria designed to alter their relationship with it . |
| 27 | Being that management procedures are supposed to be best practice , |
| 28 | First announced pact is with Sun Microsystems Inc for Sparcsystems under Solaris , the pitch being that IBM Corp CICS users can move applications from their mainframes and run them on Sun distributed client-server systems with little or no modification . |
| 29 | First announced pact is with Sun Microsystems Inc for Sparcsystems under Solaris , the pitch being that IBM Corp CICS users can move applications from their mainframes and run them on Sun distributed client-server systems with little or no modification . |
| 30 | The War Office Section MO 9 came into being that afternoon and began steps to raise the special force of commandos named after those Boer farmers of the South African war . |