Example sentences of "[prep] their being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Masai resident in Sanya Chini , stimulated by the activities of the Arusha-Moshi Lands Commission , formed a branch of the Tanganyika African Association in 1946 , their DO expressed extreme scepticism about their being really interested : ' … |
| 2 | None of the other superhuman beings is described as inherently shy or fearful , a further indication of their being conceptually set apart from human beings . |
| 3 | Therefore there must be no automatic condemnation of their responses and actions , but there must also be no question of their being automatically right because they are recorded in writings designated ‘ holy ’ . |
| 4 | If people are exposed to the variety of opinions that normally exist in relation to any major issue , the likelihood of their being easily manipulated by unscrupulous opinion-makers is greatly reduced . |
| 5 | In spite of their being only a minority of the pensioner population , affluent , active , newly retired people are slowly changing public attitudes . |
| 6 | For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask . |
| 7 | The result is that more rather than fewer cases are created , with staff conforming rather than innovating , for they realize that it is difficult for their superiors to complain of their being too efficient or too industrious . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) In appointing members of the Funding Council the Secretary of State — ( a ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , the provision of further education ( within the meaning of section 1(5) ( b ) of the 1980 Act ) or to have held , and to have shown capacity in , any position carrying responsibility for the provision of such further education and , in appointing such persons , he shall have regard to the desirability of their being currently engaged in the provision of such further education or in carrying responsibility for such provision ; and ( b ) shall have regard to the desirability of including persons who appear to him to have experience of , and to have shown capacity in , industrial , commercial or financial matters or the practice of any profession . |
| 9 | According to this latter explanation , whether it be a matter of dialect ( Labov , 1970 ) or sociolinguistic code ( Bernstein , 1971 ) , the disadvantage experienced by many lower-class children is said to be in their being inadequately prepared for the linguistic demands of the classroom by having learned a different model of language in use from their parents and the other members of their immediate language community . |
| 10 | In the 16th century it was used in the brewing of beer and ale , which resulted in their being more potent . |
| 11 | There are clearly immense riches in the different musical traditions of Christian congregations , and great benefit could result from their being even more widely shared . |
| 12 | What can it be about women 's bodies , apart from their being so incredibly interesting ? |
| 13 | A service system comprises a network of professionals and/or volunteers who accept responsibility for providing assistance to vulnerable people to meet their individual needs and develop their potential without their being unnecessarily isolated or excluded from the community . |
| 14 | These truths ‘ owe their clearness and evidence to their being thus imprinted . |
| 15 | The fact that women are less successful than men and are often financially dependent on them is attributed to their being less able . |
| 16 | Whether this relates to the greater verbal fluency of girls or to their being less prone to instant ‘ right-answerism ’ remains open . |
| 17 | According to Bernstein , the very conditions of their upbringing lead to their being linguistically crippled . |
| 18 | A further danger is that the vagueness of the new offences might lead to their being constitutionally challenged as contrary to section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms . |
| 19 | Moreover , Hume famously insisted , there is a prima facie gap between any assertion as to what is the case and any assertion as to what ought to be done , and this is best understood as the gap between reason 's detection of how things are and passion 's emotional response to their being so . |
| 20 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 21 | That ‘ complicity ’ adds an important element of subversion : it is not difficult to think of texts that have been changed into fiery poems , novels and philosophies by their being thirstily read : evoked . |