Example sentences of "[prep] them being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting . |
| 2 | There are lots of screams coming from universities about them being hard done by , being cut back financially and so on so forth . |
| 3 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 4 | And clearly , in terms of the fires as a particular the rationale for them being there is |
| 5 | Family therapy techniques , emphasising as they do the role of the parents and the necessity for them being fully involved in solving their own problems , were considered helpful . |
| 6 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 7 | The French and Spanish negotiators now spent some happy weeks agreeing how to divide up England 's overseas possessions once she was defeated , the agreement between them being formally signed on 12 April 1779 . |
| 8 | He asserted that dinosaurs , created by God , stood at the apex of the reptilian kingdom , with ail descendants of them being vastly smaller and inferior orders . |
| 9 | ‘ Trumper , Private 7312087 , reporting as ordered , sir , ’ he bellowed , despite neither of them being more than a yard away from Captain Trentham . |
| 10 | I have this image of them being very poor . |
| 11 | Her methods also greatly simplified many of the earlier proofs , a number of them being very important in algebraic geometry . |
| 12 | Much of the damage caused by keepnets is due to most of them being too narrow , so that as the fish lashes its tail back and forth the mesh brushes the protective mucous off and gradually wears the fin away . |
| 13 | Some of them being too large . |
| 14 | As such , there is little difference between his relationship to Mrs Robinson and his relationship to Elaine , both of them being essentially immoral . ’ |
| 15 | At a meeting with the Lords Lieutenant , it was recorded , ‘ many of them being so sick by this great fatigue , and out of all hopes of relief from His Majesty 's forces , absolutely refused to hold out any longer ’ , whereupon the city corporation , conscious that already some of the militia had disappeared over the walls and fearing further desertions , voted by 24 to 15 to capitulate . |
| 16 | The dream topics discussed here are by no means representative of dreams reported from laboratory awakenings , some of them being quite uncommon . |
| 17 | I do n't know , it 's difficult to see that one can make erm , you know , a clear connection if one says well , you know , if the undergraduate is n't sick should we sort of put up with them being particularly rowdy or generally rather offensive , and I think that there could perceivably be problems with attempting to identify , you know , a disciplinary effect offence rather , as lying within the victims . |
| 18 | Mr Scrivener said : ‘ This court has no power to order repayment of ultra vires expenditure , ’ and he commented on the presence of bank representatives , saying : ‘ I have difficulty with them being here . ’ |
| 19 | No with them being so fast it 's not |
| 20 | Look , mate , I 've got nothing against these Indians , Chinese , Pakistanis , Blacks you name 'em I 've got nothing against them — apart from them being here . |