Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are advantages in being able to relate the objects handled to other items on display . |
| 2 | There are benefits to being free from the constraints of full-time employment . |
| 3 | When I actually began to realize that there were advantages to being gay , that changed my whole attitude — up till then I had always thought of it as something to be sorry for , to apologize for . |
| 4 | Maybe he 'll have to be content with merely doing all the work , but there 's compensations in being indispensable , too . ’ |
| 5 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 6 | But they 're part of being human . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was part of being involved in university life . |
| 8 | But he was sort of being destructive , quite a boss to go and get them to do it , and they would n't . |