Example sentences of "[adv] of being [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 2 | She lives a life of constant anxiety ; over money , job security , and also of being caught by the authorities . |
| 3 | ‘ What foolish rabbit-warrens our well-to-do houses are obliged to be , ’ William Morris complained in 1884 ; ‘ instead of being planned in the rational ancient way … a big hall , to wit , with a few chambers tacked on to it for sleeping or sulking in . ’ |
| 4 | All too often , lighting is an afterthought superimposed on the final decoration instead of being planned from the start . |
| 5 | That 's the one that 's the one danger that I see , that instead of being led by the turnover of the product , we 're being led by the funding we can obtain which I think is a is a weakness in the system . |
| 6 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 7 | An auger works in much the same way , but instead of being pushed into the soil , it has a corkscrew end which can be twisted down into the earth . |
| 8 | It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles . |
| 9 | Amendment thirty-one confirms that a chairman of a police authority will be elected by the authority itself , instead of being appointed by the Home Secretary As Noble Lord , Lord has already said . |
| 10 | The keys themselves are hinged at the back , instead of being balanced near the middle . |
| 11 | Instead of being supported by the teaching staff , I was criticised for my actions , and consequently decided it would be best to keep quiet about such incidents during my training , as I knew any real change could only be made from within the profession . |
| 12 | Similarly , Gnosticism was opposed to orthodox Christianity by its hostility to history , for instead of being based on the idea that God prepares for the future by way of the past it regarded the world as one from which God was absent . |
| 13 | Our review guitar is a Manson Classic S of the back-routed design — which means that the pickups are mounted straight into the body , instead of being built into the scratchplate in the traditional manner ( although you can order that , too , if you wish ) . |
| 14 | It can also be played as football cricket where the ball is kicked instead of being hit with the bat . |
| 15 | Instead of being inherited by the process of Mendelian genetics , it is ‘ inherited ’ by imitation . |
| 16 | Instead of being treated to the confrontation between the great lion Aslan and the forces of hell , we sat and watched a game of cat and mouse . |
| 17 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |
| 18 | I 'll go along and be Well actually I 'll get him to do that and instead of being bored about the for forty five minutes or whatever I |
| 19 | Instead of being recuperated to the masculine gender , though , as has happened to words like astronaut , person has become a kind of euphemism for woman . |
| 20 | Instead of being admitted for the night , she 'll be here for just a few hours . |
| 21 | The Appointments Commission which selects public members will in future also select press members from names proposed ‘ at large ’ , instead of being nominated by the constituent bodies . |
| 22 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 23 | Instead of being informed by the prospecting company , Navan Resources , islanders learned of a possible gold mine on their island through hearing an item , based on a newspaper report , on the Gay Byrne radio show . |
| 24 | ‘ The inert waste from the Sainsbury 's site in Alton , delivered some five weeks ago , is still standing in nine feet-plus piles some 50 yards from the tip instead of being dumped into the pit on the day of delivery . ’ |