Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for your knowledge being detailed and accurate that gives a maximum of 40%-a bare pass . |
| 2 | See what you mean about your dumplings being crispy . |
| 3 | Archbishop Fisher did not approve of his fellow-archbishop being prominent in such company at such a moment of history . |
| 4 | TRAP ELEVEN : Do n't insist on your boss being over-generous . |
| 5 | I mean with his chest being bad he 's |
| 6 | Losing his job with the band had not really been to do with his mother being ill , but it had been easy to suggest the idea to Barnett . |
| 7 | That is , we refer to our sensations as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ because they are the sensations which usually go with our bodies being hot or cold ; and it is not the case that we call external things hot and cold because we think there is something in common between them and our bodily sensations . |
| 8 | I mean you 're looking back on your childhood , you always think of your childhood being sunny days . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying we want loads of 15-year-olds sitting in their bedrooms being morose over Techno songs instead of Morrissey songs , just that you can have soul in this type of dance music . |
| 10 | ‘ Any picture America had of its women being shy , gentle creatures living sheltered lives , untainted by the world , is shattered by the facts in the report , ’ commented one newspaper typically . |