Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [subord] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was illustrated in a 15th century manuscript , and Gerard referred to it as being useful for preserving the eyesight ; Culpeper advised its use for those " that are bit with serpents or have eat … mushrooms " . |
| 2 | So that 's an acid plus a metal , now an acid plus a base which is this one we 've just done , a metal oxide the metal oxides are bases , er you can think of them as being alkaline , we call it basic but very very similar sort of thing to alkaline okay so what happens with a base and an acid ? |
| 3 | We do n't normally think of them as being anxious , but simply as being hard to catch , too nervous to ride , or unreliable in competition . |
| 4 | " I must face the Possibility that Mr. Andrew may be dead , but I ca n't think of him as being dead . " |
| 5 | Certainly , I do n't think of you as being old . ’ |
| 6 | Right so yeah she 's , she 's certainly not looking at them as being revolutionary |
| 7 | Landing in Nigeria , en route to Sierra Leone , and struck , initially , by the intense heat and strange , over-powering odours , Neneh felt frightened and alienated : ‘ It was like a world I 'd never been in , that was looking at me as being different — but also part of . |
| 8 | Strangely enough , it did n't occur to me as being odd until I saw my mother frantically spraying the room one day . |
| 9 | The right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) can vote for it while being reluctant to concede any more sovereignty to the Community , and the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East can vote for it because he is in favour of conceding more sovereignty to the Community . |
| 10 | It 's because it 's imprecise that they , they refer to it as being infinite . |
| 11 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 12 | ( These stages occur simultaneously , but it is convenient to think of them as being sequential . ) |
| 13 | ‘ My dear — she was referring to me as being bossy and domineering . |