Example sentences of "being [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall the Calculator accessory is the only one that comes close to being worth its price , the others are either too basic or liable to crash to be considered seriously . |
| 2 | But they can not be alike , since one of them requires a sentient being for its existence while the other does not . |
| 3 | The Wellcome Foundation Limited has always attached particular importance to the well being of its employees . |
| 4 | A school that develops a warm sense of well being with its pupils , even in the toughest neighbourhoods , suffers far less from casual , endless vandalism . |
| 5 | But to eyes not looking through ancient spectacles , it assuredly appears as an affair of the intercourse of a living being with its physical and social environment . |
| 6 | What is significant is the extension since 1979 of the range of issues in the first category which the Conservative leadership regards as ‘ high politics ’ , that is , which it regards as being within its own sphere of decision-making . |
| 7 | He spoke as if the Government now regarded the TBC as being within its sphere of activity . |
| 8 | For instance , a child may become so fascinated by watching a car backing up the drive that she fails to realize the danger of being in its way . |
| 9 | Although Mr Wise regards Windows as being in its fairly early days , he says that the firm is devising a standard configuration for Windows users on the network . |
| 10 | Mr Bérégovoy , who so prided himself as a good manager , had to hear Edouard Balladur , the new prime minister , describe the economy as being in its worst state since the second world war . |
| 11 | Sun 's first problem will probably be getting Sun people themselves to use the stuff , the transition from C or even C++ to objects not being without its hazards as object people know . |
| 12 | Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group . |
| 13 | For natural selection acts by either now adapting the various parts of each being to its conditions of life , or by having adapted them during long past periods of time ’ . |
| 14 | If the model only gets as far as being on its side and then starts to fall , apply opposite lateral cyclic to roll out and back stick to recover . |
| 15 | In fact , the three greatest masterpieces in the collection could not have been sold outside Germany in any case , being on its list of national treasures : the quarto thirteenth-century Hildesheim Psalter ; the Sacramentary in uncials ; and the Nibelungen manuscript ‘ C ’ . |
| 16 | In all the persecution lasted for about 250 years , being at its height during the reign of Diocletian . |
| 17 | The weather was being at its most uncooperative — it was tippling down with rain when according to his forecast at briefing it should have cleared hours ago , and every single one of the navigators flying that night had been in to complain bitterly . |