Example sentences of "[prep] [ex0] being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Premiums paid for life insurance and funds under management have risen more than five-fold to £14.5 billion and £224 billion respectively , despite there being only a 2m rise in the number of life insurance policies to 106m . |
| 2 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 3 | Despite there being twice as much currency in circulation as in 1990 , the deputy chairman of Gosbank , the State Bank , warned that some enterprises might have difficulty paying wages because of cash shortages . |
| 4 | Interpreting the figure as a drawing of a wire frame , on the other hand , means thinking of there being just nine pieces of straight wire in the frame . |
| 5 | The most unsatisfactory outcome of LMS in this context would be if schools felt obliged to return to the traditional concept , so inimical to professional and curricular development , of there being just two professional roles in primary schools , those of class teacher and head , each confined to and jealously defending his or her territory . |
| 6 | Tullock ( 1971 ) neatly resolves the apparent paradox of there being much rhetoric about redistribution but very little actual redistribution between income groups . |
| 7 | The Council was charged with the task of seeing that the new courses were of degree standard , but was powerless to adjudicate on the wisdom or otherwise of there being so many arts-orientated courses in the first place . |
| 8 | Lesley feels it in the sense of there being so few strong female images in the business : ‘ People still have a preconceived , stereotyped ideal of what women in bands are supposed to be and how we 're supposed to perform or behave . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Independent Liability ’ — This is the maximum payable under a policy in the event of there being more than one policy in force covering the subject matter of the claim but where neither policy is more specific , i.e. the amount which would have been payable if only one policy had been in force . |
| 10 | There is no question of there being any trespass … |
| 11 | Some scientists who think that there is little likelihood of there being any other technological civilization in the Galaxy agree that the approach is Indeed ‘ uniquely logical ’ — and have gone on from there to support their own case . |
| 12 | Interest in this area arose originally from a consideration of the concept of ‘ parental rights ’ , of how this concept is defined in law and social services practice relating to child care and adoption , and to what extent it might be reasonable to speak of there being any extant meaningful ‘ parental rights ’ in the contemporary scene . |
| 13 | This acknowledgement is not derived from a prior knowledge of facts , rather it is a precondition of there being any facts . |
| 14 | There is a saying about there being more than one way to skin a cat : in the case of toxic wastes they could be contained in an indefinitely leakproof box . |
| 15 | A congenital abnormality is considered corrected when early paediatric surgery results in there being practically no residual defect , or no or minimal after effects . |
| 16 | The sudden increase in staff from outside the prison culture may have resulted in there being more guards who themselves use marijuana in a limited recreational way , and who may not be averse to sharing a few joints with their charges . |
| 17 | Engels attributes this to there being too many chiefs and not enough indians in the European operation . |
| 18 | The whole phenomenon of Green consumerism depends on there being enough concerned , caring and sufficiently well-informed consumers out there to buy Green products . |