Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |
| 2 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 3 | If you 've got a school where there are weak teachers then you do n't want to being weak . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Scooper 's blind 83-year-old mother , Henny , whose cancerous breast parallels Scooper 's atrophied heart , is in a hospital bed , facing an appalling future ( she has cheated death by her refusal to stop talking ) but still struggling to get across her philosophy : do n't worry about being healthy — just live ! |
| 5 | Do n't worry about being tactful when you interrupt them . ’ |