Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] being [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being a peripheral figure for most of my working life , I now had to adjust to being on centre stage . |
| 2 | Malone are already resigned to being without Stuart Duncan and regular number eight Scott Kirkpatrick until next season . |
| 3 | The Church of England 's General Synod doubts if Freemasonry and Christianity are compatible and the organization is suspected of being behind police corruption , but Royal approval is nevertheless accorded it . |
| 4 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 5 | He concedes that the new sector organisations called into being by Mr Heseltine last July are not yet up to speed . |
| 6 | Again , this type of insertion sequence is common among monolinguals : here it is clearly offset by being in London English in the midst of a Creole turn . |
| 7 | Valerie is still hopeful that she 'll be able to get the school reopened but at the moment it looks as if this is as close as these children will get to being at Brockweir School . |
| 8 | It was true for some people , because if you act soft when you go in , they do pick on you , but when I got there I knew how to act from being in Bullwood Hall and other places . |