Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [being] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is more comfortable at knocking others off perches than being there to be knocked off himself . |
| 2 | He came with the party , and halfway through the visit he was still showing off for his fans and being mildly provocative towards all authority . |
| 3 | This may sound like putting the cart before the horse and being unnecessarily pessimistic . |
| 4 | As we have seen , this can produce some remarkable consequences , such as black holes not being black , and the universe not having any singularities but being completely self-contained and without a boundary . |
| 5 | Molloy and Carroll 's ( 1992 ) more recent study while being more limited in scale does have some transbinary material , and confirms that a number of the NSE students perform better than A-level students when degree results are considered ( Table 4 ) . |
| 6 | At just over six foot , with thick curling brown hair and eyes that owed their startling blueness to his Irish ancestry , Tom was used to being the object of female appreciation whilst being slightly puzzled by it . |
| 7 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 8 | They have generally responded to its gentle evocation of rural America but have seen the action as being essentially melodramatic and the politics confused . |
| 9 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 10 | that humans are more important , but some people think of animals as being more important . |
| 11 | The winner of the Queen 's gold award for the best architectural projects of the year , Mr. Stansfield Smith — for Hampshire county council schools as it happens , an authority that is proud of local provision by an in-house organisation — has described the programme as being as much about ’ cheap politics as about cheap buildings ’ . |
| 12 | Indonesia 's ambassador to Malaysia , Sunarso Djajusman , observed : " Perhaps Singapore sees Indonesia as being less of a danger compared with Malaysia … |
| 13 | Also , as it is late with few people around , I see the dangers to others of my speeding as being less . |
| 14 | He said China 's rejection of his 1987 plan , which drew criticism from his own supporters as being too conciliatory , was forcing him to rethink his approach . |
| 15 | Chiew sees her own research as being exclusively directed towards the well being of patients . |
| 16 | Elderly people were chosen for initial study as being both a self-contained group and of medium to low priority . |
| 17 | Despite the government 's interest in appraisal as being both developmental ( for the teacher ) and directly related to salary and career advancement , early experience of schools in developing schemes was almost entirely based on teacher development . |
| 18 | Among snatches of conversation , both of us remember his referring to the underground as being rather like hell . |
| 19 | The official criminal statistics present a picture of crime as being predominantly a working-class phenomenon . |
| 20 | Furthermore , this final piece of identity cosmetic can be enhanced by the official portrait of crime as being essentially a lower-class phenomenon . |
| 21 | Vold and Bernard ( 1986 , p. 29 ) are critical of Taylor , Walton and Young for not allowing that Beccaria could see crime as being sometimes rational and justified . |
| 22 | If the association was perfect , all the points would lie on the line , and there would be no spread in the residuals ; 100 per cent of the original spread would be accounted for , and we would describe the two variables as being perfectly correlated . |
| 23 | When the " Geddes Axe " fell in February 1922 , it proposed cuts in the social services which alienated once and for all the Prime Minister 's last admirers on the left ; moderate Unionists like Stanley Baldwin disliked the Geddes Axe as being too arbitrary and too indiscriminate , but the rest of the party criticized it as too little , too late , and unlikely to be implemented anyway . |
| 24 | We can see no reason why the court in the Leighton case should have regarded the equities as being any different , as between the mother and the chargees , merely because the land happened to be registered land . |
| 25 | The range of quality from very good to squalid is of significance , because at one end of the range many authorities view mobile homes as being more or less equivalent to permanent dwellings , while some of the poorer , less well serviced , caravans can not be regarded as permanent homes . |
| 26 | The SCREAM of a cat in agony is unmistakable and is similar to the scream of many other animals when being badly hurt or terrorized . |
| 27 | However , for the sake of simplicity , we can regard the tritone as being midway between consonant and dissonant . |
| 28 | Often it is another state-owned body which is used to provide the mechanism for making the payment ; this , as we have seen , provides a way of dressing up the deal as being commercially ‘ normal ‘ . |
| 29 | They are better off , therefore , learning the game at the possible expense of Scotland 's full international opponents than being too good for everybody else in the under-21 sphere . |
| 30 | Fourteen years after the war there were almost three million unemployed , and in the North-East and South Wales at least one-third of all breadwinners were out of work and being steadily pushed onto the meagre relief provided by the Poor Law . |