Example sentences of "[prep] being [noun] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't pleasant , after being cock of the school , to be made feel like a good-for-nothing little brat tied to her apron strings . " |
| 2 | The three had frequently been accused by Israel of being leaders of the intifada . |
| 3 | Asked to name the worst aspect of being Curator of the Tate , Serota had no answer . |
| 4 | In Petrograd , the Kadets accused the Rada of being agents of the Germans , and the newspaper of the Soviet , Izvestia , proclaimed : |
| 5 | They have the added advantage too of being evidence of the kind of affection that is willing to spend time and energy as well as money . |
| 6 | And although I have since had my own shows in West End galleries in London , the excitement of being part of the Summer Exhibition has never worn thin . |
| 7 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 8 | It has the illusions of being part of the process by which your priorities may be achieved but , looked objectively , it is unlikely that it really contributes to this aim . |
| 9 | If I 'm proud of anything , I 'm proud of being chairman of the APB . |
| 10 | I know from experience that one of the frustrations of being head of the Children 's Book Foundation is that however bright and brilliant Julia Eccleshare 's Children 's Books of the Year is , no one seems to buy it . |
| 11 | Virtually all those arrested were accused of being supporters of the opposition Parti pour la libération du peuple hutu ( PALIPEHUTU ) , Hutu People 's Liberation Party , which the government accuses of seeking political change through violence against the minority but dominant Tutsi ethnic group . |
| 12 | What I have just offered have been partial readings of the Haec Vir pamphlet and The Roaring Girl , partial not in the sense ( at least this is not what I 'm confessing ) of being distortions of the texts , but rather readings that focus upon textual elements which can be correlated with oppositional cultural elements within Jacobean society , and consequently possible audience positions and reading responses . |
| 13 | The second present was a book toke ) a ‘ thank you ’ for having had the pleasure of being President of the Medau Society . |
| 14 | Two titles for this talk had been suggested by the speaker , ‘ singing for his supper ’ and ‘ the gain and pain of being Director of the Daresbury Laboratories ’ . |
| 15 | During the sixth century another order , ‘ Ionic ’ , was brought into being east of the Aegean . |
| 16 | She is a human whirlwind , especially at home in Sacriston where under her own name of Brenda Woods she combines her role as mother-of-two with being chairman of the governors of two schools in the village , organising charity events and entertaining in the clubs . |
| 17 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , the Istanbul State Security Court acquitted three of the 10 who had subsequently been charged with being officials of the UTCP . |
| 18 | An angry reader , Ian Phipps , replied , displaying in his language that he too was having problems in moving from being part of the problem to the solution . |
| 19 | Right now , Iran benefits from being part of the UN 's siege of Mr Hussein . |
| 20 | Does the Park actually gain anything from being part of the city 's road network , one wonders ? |
| 21 | Now that means that bands are being arm-wrestled into sounding like Nirvana ; and the only record companies can imagine doing that is by hiring Nirvana 's producer , so every band on a major label has been remixed by Nirvana 's producer this year … and I just do n't have any interest in being part of the continuum . ’ |
| 22 | In conclusion , I would like to reiterate my earlier remarks concerning our own enthusiasm for your project and indeed would look forward to being part of the team that would bring about a successful conclusion to your plans . |
| 23 | In addition to being agents of the state these units of government have also traditionally performed another function . |
| 24 | In addition to being captain of the side , Storie was coach and also helped prepare the wicket . |
| 25 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 26 | They mostly think they 're marvellous and act lordly and gallop about being pillars of the community . ’ |
| 27 | I thank my hon. Friend for being part of the Government who have enhanced and protected green belt districts more robustly than any other Government of the post-war period . |
| 28 | Yet , at the same time , he felt a strange exhilaration at being part of the movement . |
| 29 | I 'm as good at this as I am at being chairman of the board — and you know how good I am at that … ’ |
| 30 | Playing at being mother of the year . |